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Hog iPC Tours with Nine Inch Nails
LD Roy Bennett designed the current Nine Inch Nails’ tour, with lighting director Chad Smith out as board op. Recently, lighting contractor PRG had purchased a number of Hog iPC lighting consoles, so Smith switched out his Wholehog 2 for the new unit with the tour already underway.
"I heard good things about the Hog iPC from Butch Allen, who's using it on Garbage, so I was excited about it," Smith says. "So when we were in Boston, I switched out the day of show. I was freaking out at first, thinking, 'What am I doing?' In this show, there is no room for error, but I felt confident with the console. I powered it up and ran my show and I haven't looked back."
Hog iPC is the newest product in the Wholehog family of controllers, and the industry's first hybrid console -- it's designed to use the Wholehog 3 operating system, but is also backward compatible with the classic Hog2PC software. Shipping began in March from High End Systems' manufacturing headquarters in Austin, TX.
Smith enjoys Hog iPC’s fast ‘save show’ process. "Saving a show to CD Rom is so much quicker. On the Wholehog 2 is used to take me 10 minutes to save to disk. Now, if I blink, the show is saved on the Hog iPC. The touch screens are rockin' and the key action is nice. The wheels on the bottom of the roadcase are also a great idea."
After the spring U.S. leg and a summer of European festivals, Nine Inch Nails returns to North America for an arena tour this fall.
31st May 2005
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