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DiGiCo Quantum 338 and Quantum 5 chosen for Laufey world tour

Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey’s “A Matter of Time” tour started in 2025 and will conclude in August 2026. At front of house, Matt Grabe is using a DiGiCo Quantum 338, while monitor engineer Sebastian Mut began the tour with a Quantum 338, but expanded into a Quantum 5 for later dates. All consoles are supplied by Sound Image, a Clair Global brand.

Grabe started engineering and mixing in studios. Twelve years later, a good friend, front-of-house engineer Shane Haase, took him out on tour as system engineer for Alabama Shakes. He worked for a variety of artists over the next seven years, but it was not until another friend asked him to fill in mixing that he took the plunge and returned to a console position. He has been working with Laufey since 2024 and DiGiCo has always been his manufacturer of choice. “I didn’t start using Quantum features until recently, but now MSE and Spice Rack are in use on every file”, he shares.

Mut began his training in houses of worship before moving into touring. He started with Laufey in 2024 and has been using DiGiCo consoles throughout his career. He has consistently chosen DiGiCo for the past three years. “We swapped to the Q5 for Laufey’s Coachella performance”, he says. “The Q338 and Q5 are fantastic monitor consoles. The most useful features for me have been the Snapshot and automation functionality, as well as the Spice Rack, specifically Naga 6. With all the international travel on this tour, being able to keep everything in a slim package that can be replicated in a new region quickly has been important for us.”

Depending on the type of show, the engineers will either take their own equipment, or pick it up locally. “We travel with the control package, desks, I/O, mics and instrument DIs”, details Grabe. “On occasion, we fly into a duplicate of that system. It’s daunting to recreate as we are near fully loaded on four SD-Racks, a MiniRack, and over fifty channels of RF. The set has a string quartet, a jazz trio on the B-Stage and even a moving Steinway grand piano.” At solo dates, they convert the show file to whatever SD or Quantum desk is provided locally, he adds.

Laufey’s style is pure and deliberate, with Grabe using a very light touch in terms of processing. He prefers to rely on the faders to ride dynamics, rather than heavy gating or compression, ensuring every detail is heard with natural clarity. At the monitor position, Mut has a similar methodology, using the Fourier Transform.Engine as his dedicated choice for plugins, as required. “Having Snapshot recall between the Transform.Engine and the console without any extra hardware or programming is really useful”, he states.

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