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Ben Rogerson

“We've just upped it to 256 channels, which sounds crazy”: Coldplay’s live engineers reveal the lengths they go to to record every single show on the band’s never-ending Music of the Spheres tour

Coldplay Music of the Spheres tour.

Believe it or not, Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour has been on the road (albeit with a few breaks) since 2022, but for Dan Green, who has been the band’s FOH engineer and audio producer since 1998, work on it began even further back.

In a new video from DiGiCo Consoles, which takes us behind the scenes on the band’s globetrotting adventure, he says he started preparing “round about five years ago,” right after the Music of the Spheres album had been completed (this ended up being released in 2021, and was followed by another album, Moon Music, in 2024).

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