Tate McRae’s Engineers Make the Quantum Jump to DiGiCo Desks
This year’s festival performances at Osheaga and Lollapalooza confirmed the choice of DiGiCo’s Quantum platform at front of house and monitors for future tours
NEW YORK CITY – October 2026 – Canadian singer, songwriter and dancer Tate McRae seemed to be everywhere in 2025, as her all-arena Miss Possessive Tour wound its way across three continents over the course of seven months. This year, McRae’s schedule has been a lot less busy, with just two festival shows at the beginning of August—Osheaga in Montreal and Lollapalooza in Chicago—for which her front-of-house and monitor engineers both adopted DiGiCo Quantum mixing consoles.
Curtis McKenna, McRae’s FOH engineer, mixed last year’s tour on his own console but, together with monitor engineer Melvin Godfrey, opted to use DiGiCo for her two North American summer festival dates. “One of the reasons that I switched was because you can find DiGiCo everywhere,” McKenna explains “And no matter which DiGiCo console it is, you can easily adapt your show file to that model. Normally I ask for a Quantum338, but I don’t mind a smaller version, and even if you go to the SD Range, it only takes 30 seconds on a flight to convert the show file.”
For Lollapalooza, AND Audio, owned by former touring monitor engineer Andy Hernandez, shipped both a Quantum326 and Quantum338 to Chicago. “We have a really good relationship with Andy,” McKenna says. “We’ve been using him for all our L.A. rehearsals.” The two DiGiCo consoles at Osheaga—a Quantum225 for McKenna and a Quantum338 for Godfrey—were supplied by Solotech, the Canadian festival’s production provider, ensuring plenty of onsite support for the McRae team if required. Not that McKenna, a seasoned DiGiCo operator, needed much support. This year, he reports, “I’ve only used DiGiCo consoles. I recently used a Q338 on a US and UK arena tour with an artist named Madison Beer, and it was nice to get back into the DiGiCo workflow.”
McKenna is a big fan of DiGiCo’s Macro capabilities and is looking forward to digging further into its newly enhanced features. “With the advanced function now, you can press one button, and it does a stream of multiple things, which is great. I’m probably going to get into it more next year, touring with Tate, which will be with DiGiCo. If you have some time to set up your Macros, they can be really powerful. It takes your brain away from the things that you don’t need to think about so you can just mix the show.”
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