Stanley Soares divides his time between the studio and the road, working with a range of well-known artists, including Megadeth, Motörhead, Sepultura, Juanes, Meshuggah, Devin Townsend and many more.
As the entertainment world begins to emerge from COVID-19 restrictions, Soares is preparing to go out on tour with Megadeth later in the year, where a compact and portable DiGiGrid MGB interface will be a key part of his set-up, enabling him to run Waves SoundGrid plug-ins for the shows. His most recent project has been the mixing of a live album for another client which was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and was tracked using the MGB.
Soares sees the greatest advantage of using the MGB as its ability to seamlessly send audio in any direction over MADI with a very intuitive software setup.
He commented: “I first encountered DiGiGrid products more than six years ago when I started working with Juanes. We were looking for a solution to be able to track and do virtual sound-checks and possibly route plugins through a host computer – I’ve got an MGB and an MGO and they’ve been game-changers for me. The units have proved their worth for recording live concerts and virtual playback – recently two of my front of house recordings have been used as audio for a DVD and live CD respectively.”
Like every FOH Engineer in the world right now, Soares can’t wait to reconnect with the live music experience and resume the delivery of fantastic audio on behalf of his clients. If all goes well, very soon he’ll be packing his bags for an extensive North American Tour, and his DiGiGrid MGB will go with him.
“It’s amazing what this tiny box can do!”
