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Apr 6, 2018
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LOS ANGELES, California – July 2019 — As to be expected, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s latest North American tour, which kicked off in Clearwater, Florida on June 5 and runs through early September, features the artist performing his signature hilarious parodies of hit songs recorded over more than four decades. This time, however, he’s being backed up not only by his usual talented band, but also by a full local orchestra at each tour stop. Managing the massive channel count of this big traveling circus are two DiGiCo SD5 consoles, one each at FOH and monitors, supplied by Escondido, California-based SR vendor Sound Image.
Complementing the consoles are two 56-input SD-Racks and two SD-MiNi Racks, offering FOH engineer “Big Al” Rettich and monitor engineer Dana Beaudin plenty of functionality and flexibility for the tour’s high channel counts. In fact, Rettich says that the SD5’s input capacity was the main attraction for him.
“Originally, I looked at the DiGiCo SD12, but at the time it...

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