There’s a lot going on when Red Hot Chili Peppers take to the stage, but it turns out that one of the most important components of their live sound is hidden well out of sight.
Speaking to Mix, the band’s front-of-house engineer Toby Francis has revealed that some of the band’s secret sonic sauce comes from a Fairchild 670 vacuum tube compressor, a piece of hardware that you’d more commonly expect to find in a studio.
