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Monitor engineer Cory Benson picks DiGiCo Quantum338 for Tyler Childers
On his current “Snipe Hunt” tour, which kicked off in Dallas on April 23, 2026, American singer-songwriter Tyler Childers is backed up by his seven-piece band, The Food Stamps. To keep all of the singers and musicians in sync with their own performances as well as each other, Sound Image, a Clair Global brand, is carrying a DiGiCo Quantum338 as the tour’s monitor console.
Cory Benson has been the artist’s monitor engineer for three and a half years now, first hitting the road with Childers on 2023’s “Send in the Hounds” tour. “As that tour wound down, I was taking inventory of the gear and reviewing what worked and what could be improved upon based on Tyler and the band’s needs”, he shares, adding that he requested a DiGiCo Quantum338 to work with before the next tour prep began.
“The Nodal Processing was a game-changer”, he continues. “As a monitor engineer, you can find yourself cluttering up your fader banks with duplicated channels for specific sends. Being able to handle the individual sends from one channel allows me to keep my layouts simple and clean. Besides the fader bank cleanliness that Nodal Processing provides me, the safety net of my show lives in the macros.”
Benson describes his “Snipe Hunt” tour monitoring setup as “pretty simple”, with the DiGiCo desk controlling two SD-Racks loaded with 32-bit mic pres and analog output cards. He’s also utilizing two DiGiGrid MGBs to pull MADI into his recording computer.
From his typical position at stage left, Benson is supplying eight stereo IEM mixes for the band, along with five stereo IEM mixes for the backline techs, one stereo IEM VIP mix, and up to three stereo IEM mixes for guest sit-ins, potentially bringing the total to seventeen on a busy day. “I also send a backup stereo mix to a hardwired pack for our drummer, and a feedback wedge for our guitarist, which is only used for a few of his solos since all our amps are upstage of the risers.”
Largely eschewing audio plugins and external processing, Benson prefers to keep everything onboard as much as possible. “I utilize the Naga 6 on Tyler’s vocal channel to reign in the wild dynamics of his performance before sending it through the DYN Blue Classic compressor, which is filtered to catch any aggressive peaks in his upper-mids”, he says. “I’m also running DYN Blue Classics on my band buses with a higher threshold to just glue everything together and catch any runaway transients. I use the Mustard gates for my toms because they feel a little more musical and organic than the SD’s. And with DiGiCo’s latest V22 software update, I’m now utilizing the new Mustard Levelling Amp, The Silver One, on upright bass.”
“In my opinion, this desk works so well for this band because of its sonic transparency”, he concludes. “These artists work so hard to craft the tones and sounds they want, so the last thing I want to do is affect it. I want the artists to be confident that what they’re hearing in their IEMs is an accurate representation of what their instruments are doing on stage.”
The “Snipe Hunt” tour stops at a variety of iconic venues - including Chicago’s historic Wrigley Field and Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark Stadium - before wrapping up on October 3 at Portland’s Moda Center.
(Photos: Trevor Jansen/@outoftime.wrld/Emma Delevante/@emmadelevante)
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