Photo above: NF performing on his HOPE Tour (photo credit: Brad Heaton)
Hip-hop artist Nate Feuerstein, known as NF, is out on the HOPE Tour, his first headlining arena trek in support of his new album of the same name. Visiting 47 venues across North America, Europe, and UK this year, the recent US leg of the trek featured special guest Cordae. But there’s another pair of talent that’s critical to the tour’s success: FOH engineer Travis Stoker and monitor engineer Murphy Johnson, both of whom are piloting DiGiCo SD5 consoles provided by tour vendor PRG.
The desks were reportedly chosen for a number of factors: pristine sound quality, as well as programmability and flexibility—critical capabilities for a tour so heavily dependent upon tracks and a thunderous drum kit that takes up as much as half of the production’s 60-plus inputs.
The audio crew from NF’s HOPE Tour...
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