ML EXECUTIVES PROVIDES MIDAS FOR JOSS STONE
ML Executives is providing the sound equipment for Joss Stone’s UK tour throughout December. At the heart of the package is a Midas Heritage 3000 mixing desk, at the request of long-time fan of the brand, Davie Kirkwood.
Kirkwood has been the teenage soul sensation’s FOH engineer since she shot to fame two years ago. A sound engineer for over three decades, Kirkwood has worked with many top artists including Deep Purple, the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and Motley Crue. Midas has been his console of choice since he first encountered them in the mid-seventies.
“Midas is always at the top of my list of specifications,” he says. “The preamps in the Midas are so superior to anything else. Her band is a traditional r&b outfit of bass, guitars and drums with some keyboards and backing vocals, and with the Heritage I can get great separation between the different elements. I love the filters too. I don’t use a lot of EQ but I’ll bring in the filters and they’ll clean up everything. There’s also plenty of headroom, and even with the heavy metal bands I work with in the States, it just cruises – it’s magnificent.”
Kirkwood is also using a rack of Klark Teknik 504 Quad Compressors.
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Editors' information:
Midas live performance mixing consoles have been used by the world's most demanding sound engineers, performers and rental companies for three decades. The company strives to raise the standards of sonic quality through its programme of continual research and development, implementing new control functionality and user-friendly desk operation to anticipate and accommodate the ever-evolving needs of audio professionals who specify Midas consoles for their major tours, festivals, international events, broadcast projects and prestigious fixed installations.
Klark Teknik was founded in 1974 and in the years immediately following, their innovative approach to design and development allowed them to introduce some truly groundbreaking designs. Klark Teknik was responsible for the world¹s first digital delay and digital reverb units, however it was their concepts for equalisation devices that really changed the world of professional audio resulting in the DN370 and the famous DN360. Today Klark Teknik continues to bring innovation in design and dedication to engineering and sonic quality in both the analogue and digital realm of signal processing.
Pic Caption: Joss Stone’s FOH engineer Davie Kirkwood with the Midas Heritage 3000