FOH engineer John Garber says his recent assignment to The Band Perry's first ever world tour has been a pleasure after leaving his nine-year stint with Rascal Flatts. "The Band Perry are perfectionists, which I love," he says. "Both the Perrys and Flatts put on a high impact show."
Garber is now set to tour over 170 shows per with The Band Perry. "The main challenge I have right now is that we are on a different PA every night," he says. "So making it consistent night after night is what I strive for. For me new gear is something I really take my time to research"
For his current setup, Garber is using Radial J48 DI boxes, the Radial Reamp JCR, and the JCR Isolation transformers.
"The Radial J48 is by far the best sounding DI box out there," he says. "It has super low harmonic distortion, and produces a lot more clean headroom. This is particularly important when you plug in a high gain instrument.
"We also use the Radial Reamp JCR in a really cool way: We take the output from the wireless system into the stage amps and then into Petersen tuners so that the artists can check their tuning at all times. The signal sounds as if you are connected to a 15-foot cable. And because of the JCR Isolation transformers, we can lift the ground and eliminate all of the hum and buzz problems that cause havoc in the past!" Garber also uses ProD8s (eight channel rack mount DI) on their Pro Tools system, JDI Duplexes (stereo DI) on all the keyboards, and a JDX (guitar amp DI) on electrics: "We know that Radial will work every time."
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