DEPECHE MODE Gear Rundown Feat. Jamie Pollock (FOH)

To me this guy is the unsung hero of the current Depeche Mode tour! This is his first tour with Depeche Mide, and the band sounds sharper and clearer than on previous tours when it was a bit too much mixed like a standard Rock show for my taste. Now the synth sounds have enough space while the drums are a little less dominant, and everything sounds crisp and on the point. (and I say this as a longtime DM fan with almost 100 DM shows under my belt)

I was there…

Sehr klarer und druckvoller Sound ! Hut ab! Ich war in der Puskás Arena in Budapest und der Sound war umwerfend. Ich habe 4 Depeche Mode Konzerte in 30 Jahren erlebt. Das war super Gut!
Welche PA und Soundsysteme nutzt Ihr?

I would think that the Eventide Eclipse sounds similar enough to the H3000.

Mad respect for TC Electronics, though; they've been making fantastic, high-quality equipment for several decades.

Thank You.. You Killed it in New York..
SUGGESTION More Reverb on the Synth/Guitar on the drop of Walking In My Shoes..
Playing the ANGEL TOUR HAD IT DOWN WAS BLOWN AWAY..!!
ITS LITERALLY A MAGICAL MOMENT!! IF DONE RIGHT.!.

Such a shame all that expensive gear, couldn’t compensate for the awful sonics in the building (Parken, Copenhagen). I was standing in the middle of the floor, next to the mixer, withe a complete lack of midrange😢 The melodies and vocals completely drowned in the beat (base and treble).
I hope for a bette experience, when you return to Copenhagen in February, in The Royal Arena🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

There are a lot of experts who CLEARLY know better in the comments. I don't know whether to simply bask in the presence of such greatness or be disappointed, because I only thought this happened with guitar-bands? Clearly we have moved on. Peace 😉👍🇬🇧

"I like having moments for things". The man is detail-oriented and that's why is's a pro.

anyone who's worked for peter gabriel is tops

Whoa.. that is amazing. Most people don’t have this stuff in the studio even

What brand is the Audio console?

How was it? Great and continues talking in a monotonous way

Great engineer, poor interviewer. Interviewer is not listening. Jamie tells him everything but the interviewer makes him state the same thing again. Don't let this guy do this again. Use a different person to do your interviews.

UHHHHH UHHHHH UH UH UUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH UHHHHH UHHHHH jeez dude

Really nice that he's still working with analog outboard stuff. The Neve and Chandlers are hard to beat, even live. Lovely.

never ceases to amaze me how old these major audio engineers with these major racks go on about their digital consuls and running at 96K and being able to run cat six cables or whatever to the stage from for a house and then you turn around and they got a big rack of outboard gear, all analogue gear it just doesn’t make any sense man like you just may as well have an analogue snake and a analogue desk like it’s the same thing and let me tell you something man those did you go desks does este sevens are just as heavy as any analogue desk ever was it’s just so ridiculous. It’s just a bunch of BS.

So funny I just got a Chandler EQ plugin. I'm not a pro, just use it mess around and remaster my music collection.

money money money

Yuck, Till Lindemann.

Amazing

He gets to the most important thing at the end, using his ears and seeing what sounds right. Sometimes that can be forgotten in the tech - lovely as his tech is.

cool to see he's using Behringer gear (TC hall of fame pedal)

It's been a long time since Depeche Mode sounded THAT good live as in this tour. Great job. The sound live was Fantastic.

Read a review of DM in Parken Copenhagen a couple of months ago, and the reviewer specifically highlighted the incredible sound of DM.

Damn that’s some great outboard gear. The tc elements a bit confusing however

Great job!

Awesome Jamie!

If you want to know what is the best gear available you just need to see this man's racks:))

No disrespect to anyone involved : Is this all necessary in the live settings mixed with
constant crowd noise? Just curious, it seems like an overkill.....
to have a specific piece of gear for specific task in such intricate detail?
Am I wrong ...........

🥰👍❤👍🥰

Anyone whose heard even the worst phone audio from the latest tour know he's absolutely in control and they sound amazing every single time.

why is he using 2 avid console?

Why is there no proper live recording of DM??? I have heard all DM Blu-Rays and they sound very bad..they sound like like nobody cares...the mastering live is bad,just listen to YELLO , KRAFTWERK , SCHILLER live Blu-Rays and you will know what i mean. Hoping that this tour will sound better finally!

what a professional.....hands down

The System 6000 is not even for sale anymore!

This man is a magician who made Depeche Mode sound great during a concert at the National Stadium in Warsaw, this place has terrible acoustics, nobody before him managed to mix the sound so well in this facility, that was a miracle. Many thanks to him

I watched all of this and didn’t understand a single word of what he was saying. Was still interesting tho! I was at this show, travelling from the UK. The sound was MUCH better than the previous show I saw at Twickenham. Also bumped into MLG in Copenhagen during the day pre-show…

Wow this guy is so cool and knows a lot !

wow. What an interesting approach to live sound! Especially with stereo widening! Thanx!

Whatever that equipment and physics behind those knobs are... this tour live sound is much much much better than previous few. Especially drumming.

Coldest band that ever walked on stage.

As they say...If it ain´t broke don´t fix it. Cool old skool set up. Love it.

What a musical genius! The sound at Twickenham was the best I've ever experienced. Incredible. ❤

OMG Haha! Let's be friends?:)

That’s absolutely wonderful! Let’s connect?

Very interesting, but what language is he speaking? :)

Just saw them in Miami. One of the best sounding shows I've ever heard!

Recently saw this tour come through Atlanta. Thought he did a wonderful job in that room (State Farm Arena). That place can get cavernous very quickly, and he managed it very well. Proper transient punch and impact was still forward despite the room always fighting against anyone trying to wrangle that space.

Nicely done, Jamie. Cheers!

What a great guy! Everyone takes his job for granted, not knowing he can srew up the entire show. Thanks for that extraordinary job behind the curtains...