With dates in Asia, the UK and across Europe before beginning its two-month US run, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ world tour has already taken in the Manchester Arena, Dublin’s 3Arena and London’s O2 Arena. Promoting their Chasing Yesterday album, the band will return to Europe in summer for music festivals across the continent.
The band, led by former Oasis lead guitarist and writer Noel Gallagher, brought along veteran monitor mixer Nahuel Gutierrez, who selected an SSL Live L500 console. An independent engineer, Gutierrez is another Oasis crossover, having joined the crew in 2004 before becoming a mixer on the band’s 2008-2009 farewell tour. Since then, he has worked for The Cure, Jamiroquai, The Prodigy and The Vaccines as well as concerts featuring performances of Hans Zimmer’s soundtracks at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.
Gutierrez first came on as monitor mixer for High Flying Birds’ inaugural tour in 2011 and has returned again for their latest stretch. The SSL Live L500 console serving on this tour was supplied by Britannia Row Productions, to address the band’s evolving monitor needs.
‘My favourite feature is the stems.’ Gutierrez says. ‘I send the individual keyboards to Mike [Rowe], so he gets all the keyboards without going through the keys stem, but, for everyone else, I just use the stem, so it’s just one fader. The same goes for the horn section; the horn players get individual channels, but everyone else just gets the horn stem, just one fader. It has made my life so easy.’
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