“What an incredible piece of kit. MBT should stand for ‘Music Better Thing!’”

“We swapped vocals over to the Shelford Channels last year, and now it's the first thing the guys ask about in the beginning of the tour. They're always “we're still using the Shelfords right?”

Christina Moon, veteran Monitor Engineer for LCD Soundsystem, was kind enough to give us a tour of their latest stage setup before a show at the Hollywood Palladium. Please enjoy.

“We are a Belgian company that provides full service for festivals, international concert or theater tours, broadcast and recording studios. We mainly specialize in the rental of digital consoles with the necessary outboard equipment for major artists and bands, as well as concert halls.”

Not too long ago we did a gear rundown video with Burna Boy’s FOH Engineer Temidayo Oladehin, and we don’t normally feature one client twice in the span of just a few months…but then Patchwork London tagged us in a few photos of Burna Boy’s V2 rig for 2025 and we had to make an exception.

GB's Juke Joint is much more than just a recording studio complex in Long Island City – they've got many years of experience recording live shows all over New York. To up their mobile recording game, they designed this amazing mobile rig made up of a scalable analog Rupert Neve Designs front-end coupled with a robust Dante network for simplicity, adaptability, and performance.

“There will always be a Newton or 4 in my FOH rack going forward.”

“Enjoy this quick run down of @PARTYNEXTDOOR’s vocal chain, from Monitor World on the #SorryImOutside EU/UK Tour”

“This story is about a modern analog recording desk that became the FOH console for a major global touring enterprise thanks to the vision of a talented FOH engineer committed to getting the right sonics for his audience. Remarkably, this desk has lapped the globe reliably six times, delivering a warm analog signature in arenas, stadiums and festivals without a single incident or failure.”

Temidayo Oladehin, FOH Engineer / Production Lead with Burna Boy, walks us through the RND gear in his rig.

We met up with Megadeth's Monitor Engineer Chris Rakestraw earlier this year to learn more about their RMP-D8 setup...enjoy.

AND Audio is a boutique audio rental house that specializes in live events and multitrack live recording. Companies like this are why our new Rupert Neve Rentals directory exists, so we thought they’d be perfect for a Spotlight…

FOH Engineer Colin Pink walks us through his setup for the spectacular Hans Zimmer Live show, which recently came through Los Angeles at the Crypto.com Arena.

FOH Engineer for The 1975, Lee McMahon chats with us about the RND gear in his main rig and how he's using it.

Thirty Seconds to Mars' FOH Engineer Ricky Watts walks us through the RND gear on their Seasons World Tour 2024, and tells us about the first time he heard the Master Bus Converter through their PA.

Christian Murphy, aka Murph Dogg, shows us his monitor setup for Tyler, The Creator at Coachella ‘24.

“When you have great players and instruments hitting a solid preamp, it just makes things easy. My experience with analog mixing in general is that you can make dramatic and bold mix moves but they just ‘feel right’ due to passing through transformers and op-amps.”

FOH Engineer Jamie Pollock is still out on Depeche Mode’s worldwide ‘Memento Mori’ tour – check out the RND gear he’s taken with him.

FOH Engineer Ryan Pickett has been mixing My Morning Jacket live for 20 years – and using RND gear for much of that time. Watch our interview with him here.

FOH Engineer Brad Divens (Disturbed, Enrique Iglesias) walks us through his rig and explains how he's using a veritable mountain of RND gear to do what he does so well.