Sound Companies
Various (by venue)
Venue
Various (Tour)
Crew
- FOH Engineer: Max Bisgrove
- Monitor Engineer: Mark “Yogi” Novissimo
- System Engineers: Various (by venue)
Gear
FOH
- Console: Avid Venue S6L 32D
- Processing: Waves Extreme Server, Waves OneKnob Louder, Waves C6 multiband Compressors, C6, Renaissance Vox, Avid Sansamp, H-Delay
- Speakers: Various (by venue, house supplied)
MON
- Console: Midas PRO2C
- Speakers: d&b audiotechnik M2 Wedges for Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt and Duff McKagan, with Chad Smith, Jamie Hince and Matt Clifford
- Mics: Shure SM58 (Vocals), Sennheiser (guitar amp mics), Sennheiser 421 (bass amp mic), Shure Beta91, Beta52 (drum mics), beyerdynamic M201/Sennheiser e904 (snare mics), Shure KSM 137 (hi-hat), Sennheiser e904 (toms), Shure KSM32 (overheads)
Tour Details
For those fortunate to see the show, Iggy Pop did a handful of dates in the U.S. in support of his January 2023 album release, Every Loser. Playing songs from the new album and classics from his solo career and The Stooges, this 77-year-old icon performed with an all-star band including drummer Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, bassist Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses, Grammy-winning producer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Watt playing guitar, Jamie Hince of The Kills on guitar and Matt Clifford who has played keyboards with The Rolling Stones for the last 30 years. The tour will continue outside the U.S. from June through August.
More details from Steve Jennings:
Mixing at FOH is engineer Max Bisgrove, who first mixed Iggy Pop in the summer of 1991 and has continued to work for him (on and off) ever since. A number of artists Bisgrove has mixed include David Bowie, The Corrs, Lana Del Rey, Marianne Faithfull, Patti Smith, BB King, The Strangles and Supergrass. On this U.S. run of dates, Bisgrove rehearsed for four days, and once the set list was settled on, it remained the same for the duration.
Bisgrove was running 35 inputs from stage. “I was using a combination of onboard Avid S6L plugins along with a Waves extreme server for external Waves plugins. I don’t use a ton of plugins, but the ones I tend to lean on are the Waves C6 multiband Compressors to smooth out guitars and expand drums, etc…a very useful plugin. On Iggy’s vocal, I use a C6 followed by a Renaissance Vox and finally a Waves OneKnob Louder which gives his voice loads of energy and presence. I use the H-Delay for slap and echo and the Avid Sansamp for distorting his vocal on certain songs.”
Bisgrove says most P.A. systems are of a pretty good standard these days, so he had no real issues except maybe at the Hollywood Palladium where they had a d&b V Series which he says is great but wasn’t powerful enough for that venue. “Iggy is certainly spontaneous and also quite unpredictable. There have been occasions where he has come right out into the house and performed whole songs out by the soundboard… the Royal Albert Hall being one such instance. Luckily, he still has such a powerful voice that this is never a problem. A regular Shure SM58 mic is all he needs. We only occasionally get feedback if he is right in front of a front fill and I can see him.” Bisgrove notes the show is pretty straightforward. “Audio-wise, pretty simple, but this is a loud show; the clarity that modern line arrays can achieve is really helpful. Also, the easy access to super accurate EQ and multi-band comps, etc., really help.”
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