The deal is expected to close in mid-November.

The acquisition extends Clair Global’s leading position in the worldwide sound reinforcement market and further expands their reach into broadcast audio, communications, and integration. They’ve covered all the bases.”įor more information, visit, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 2021: Clair Global CEO, Troy Clair, and ATK Audiotek President, Michael MacDonald, jointly announced that their companies have reached a definitive agreement for the sale of ATK to Clair Global. “This tour is going a lot of places and I know when I call DiGiCo with a question, I’ll get an answer or a phone call back within five minutes,” Dennis adds. “Doing that on the fly without it would be way more difficult. “Everyone’s in the loop, through the consoles,” says Dennis. This particular communication infrastructure lets the show proceed smoothly, even if bandleader Pete Wentz decides to change up the set list on the spur of the moment. And Chad’s connected to this as well since we’re using the same rack and it’s all on fiber.” It’s all matrixed through the SD10, which makes it very streamlined. “Instead of hand signals, the techs can easily get onto the comms and let me know what they need, or vice versa. “We have an extensive talkback system with everyone on in-ears, including the techs, and no speakers on the stage,” he explains. Just as importantly, Dennis says, the SD10 has also become a communications hub for the entire operation. The SD10 lets me do just that.”įOH engineer Chad Olech mixes Fall Out Boy on a Clair i3 P.A. I only want what they want to come through back to them. They don’t want to hear your version of that sound. A band at this level works very hard to get the tone of its backline exactly right.

Monitor mixer Kevin Dennis, who has also mixed monitors for Green Day and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, says the SD10 is “ completely transparent-the preamps, the EQ, all of it.

“But the SD5 also has a 4-band EQ on its inputs, and I’d bet that if I were to just use that, the audience wouldn’t notice the difference. “I like having some of the Waves stuff here, and the SD5 is set up to integrate them nicely,” Olech says. The same goes for the compressors everything is where I put it and where I want it. I know exactly where the knobs are it’s muscle memory. “I can have the entire EQ strip in front of me and don’t have to page through to find things. I don’t want to have to think when I mix I just want to mix. “I like to have everything in the same spot every time. “The workflow on the SD5 fits the way I work perfectly,” Olech says. While there, he says, he asked Clair to set up a shootout between half a dozen consoles, including the SD5, using the Clair i3 cabinets and CP218 subs they’d be using on the tour. Olech-who has mixed FOH for touring artists like Demi Lovato, Robin Thicke, Joe Jonas, Anthrax, Survivor and the Deftones-says he was new to the DiGiCo SD5 when he went to tour Clair Global’s headquarters in Lititz, Penn., last fall. The Boys of Zummer Tour, supported by Clair Global, pairs rockers Fall Out Boy with rapper Wiz Khalifa, and it includes a DiGiCo SD5 console mixed at front-of-house by Chad Olech, and a DiGiCo SD10 console at monitors mixed by Kevin Dennis. tech Kevin Dennis, monitor engineer and Katie Hughes, P.A. Fall Out Boy’s audio crew at the DiGiCo SD5 console, from left: Chris King, monitor tech Jerrell Evans, systems engineer/crew chief Chad Olech, FOH engineer Tim Banas, P.A.

Clair backline