Kylie puts on a show with a DiGiCo

Pop star Kylie Minogue has made a triumphant and glittering return to the stage, eighteen months after her Showgirl tour was cancelled due to her developing breast cancer. However she was back, better than ever, with the Showgirl Homecoming tour and so are her faithful crew including long-time front-of-house engineer Chris Pyne. As usual Chris is using a DiGiCo D5 live digital mixing system having been a D5 user for the past four years.

FOH engineer for Kylie, Chris Pyne with the DiGiCo D5

“It’s a fine console and definitely my favourite,” he said. “The control surface is immediate; you can see everything you want to see straightaway without having to go through pages of stuff to find it. I also have a DiGiTracs dedicated 56-track hard disk multitrack recorder which I pretty much use as a sound check in a box – you record the show every night, it picks up the signal direct from the preamp on the stage and records it to the computer. The next day I can return and play the show back as if the band is on stage, adjust the mix and dynamics, EQ, balances etc. It’s a very handy machine.”

Chris Pyne ready for the return of Kylie live, with DiGiCo D5