CHICAGO – Monitor mixer Nahuel Gutierrez is using an SSL Live L500 console for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds as the band tours Asia, U.K., Europe, and the U.S. Gutierrez, an independent engineer, has also worked for The Cure, Jamiroquai, Jake Bugg, The Prodigy and The Vaccines along with Oasis.
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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ current world tour, in support of the group’s Chasing Yesterday album, has included stops in Asia, the U.K. and across Europe, before beginning its two-month U.S run in early May. Having already appeared at the likes of Manchester Arena, Dublin’s 3Arena and London’s O2 Arena, the band will return to Europe in the 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 cross over, 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, Jake Bugg, The Prodigy and The Vaccines as well as concerts featuring composer Hans Zimmer’s classic 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. Calling on his years of experience in the industry, Gutierrez selected the SSL Live. L500 console, supplied by Britannia Row Productions, to address the band’s evolving monitor needs.
“My favourite feature is the stems.” comments Gutierrez. “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.”
