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Manuel Knigge improves in-ear monitoring for The BossHoss with DMI-Klang

During German band The BossHoss’ summer tour, sound engineer Manuel Knigge benefitted from immersive mixes via the DMI-Klang expansion card, installed in their DiGiCo SD12 console, to improve in-ear monitoring.

“Summer tours can involve a lot of different styles of venue, one night we would be in a field, the next a tent”, says Knigge. “Before using Klang, we had to work really hard to get the mixes right for every space. We would make adjustments at soundcheck, but then the audience would come in and change the acoustics, so inevitably I would have to spend the first couple of songs each night perfecting the mix, only to have it completely change the night after. It was pretty full on.”

A regular user of Klang with his other clients, Knigge had explained to the band that Klang would be the way forward for their IEM mixes, but when the opportunity to use  DMI-Klang with their SD12 finally came around, there was no pre-production rehearsal, “just a day of prep at Clair Global’s Berlin facility”, he notes. “Luckily, I had the multi-track recordings from last year, so I could make a rough 3D panned mix, just to give them a little more space in the mix. I just went for it during our first soundcheck. As soon as they started playing, their faces lifted to look straight at me. After the first song the band turned to me and said, ‘Whatever you did, don’t touch anything!’”

“From a playing perspective, the best show was the first one because they were all excited about the change and they loved it”, continues Knigge. “The band joked that they no longer needed a soundcheck because nothing needed changing and, by the end of the tour, they actually started ditching soundcheck!”

The FPGA architecture of DMI-Klang enables sixteen immersive in-ear mixes, with 64 channels available per mix, so it was a natural progression to offer the unused mixes to the crew. By the end of the tour, Knigge had control of ten musician mixes, a cue mix, a stage technician, three backliners and one guest mix that was used by the Pyrotechnic technician when not in use for guests.

(Photos: Manuel Knigge/DiGiCo/Klang)

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