DALY CITY, CA — Pearl Jam has converted to Digidesign's VENUE live sound environment. The band has had a busy year, commencing with the release of their eighth studio album, Pearl Jam, in May, with the single "World Wide Suicide," and the band is also on a worldwide tour, playing large festivals (including the iconic Leeds and Reading Festivals in the UK) and dates throughout South America, Mexico, Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Australia through the end of this month. FOH (front of house) engineer Greg Nelson worked with Rat Sound Systems — sound providers who supply audio systems for many tours in the U.S., Canada and Europe–to integrate VENUE into the Pearl Jam tour after seeing the system in action with U2 and Tom Petty.
Says Nelson, "I really got excited after we did some dates with Tom Petty and Robert Scovill [longtime FOH engineer and Digidesign's live sound market manager] let me play around with his [D-Show] console and [its] wide array of processing. It was so simple to learn and very easy to use — I had 90 percent of the console figured out after about 20 minutes during a run-through one day. I played with it for about half a day, then did a show."
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Pictured above: Greg Nelson, FOH engineer for Pearl Jam.
