Atlanta’s Ferst Centre relies on DiGiCo
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As many performances and events moved outside in 2021, Georgia Tech Arts, which operates the Ferst Centre, established its Skyline Series in the spring, offering outdoor performances ranging from live music to contemporary dance and featuring a mix of Georgia Tech groups, Atlanta arts companies, and internationally-recognized touring artists.
With performances taking place outside on a newly-constructed stage and audiences sitting in folding chairs in the parking lot, the rented Meyer Sound Leopard line-array system brought in for those performances needed a compact but still-powerful yet cost-effective mixer. That need was amply filled by a new DiGiCo S21 console, acquired last March through Atlanta-based integrator Rock N Road Audio.
More recently, the new S21 has been installed in the Ferst Centre as its current FOH console, while the SD9 is being serviced for maintenance and updating. Along with the two D-Racks used on the Ferst’s stage and connected to FOH and the venue’s Meyer Sound Galaxy 408 PA system processor via DiGiCo Little Red Box Cat-5 interfaces, the venue remains a bastion of DiGiCo technology.
“We definitely wanted to stay with DiGiCo so we could interface with the existing DiGiCo equipment we have here,” explains Joe Davis, audio engineer for Georgia Tech Arts, in the school’s Office of the Arts, Division of Student Engagement and Well-Being. “Since the SD9 was due for some needed maintenance, we were able to bring the S21 inside and use it to mix front of house, so we never skipped a beat.”
