Rod Stewart

Used live for vocals, as stated by Lars Brogaard, Stewart's FOH engineer since 1985, in this article from the official BAE website. A September 8, 2015 YouTube video on the subject from the official BAE channel can also be found here.

At the recommendation of Stewart's bass player Conrad Korsch, Brogaard tried using BAE Audio 312 preamplifiers on the drum kit during Stewart's residency at Caesars Palace last spring. He was astonished at the sound: "The acoustics at The Colosseum are exceptional to begin with," he recalls. "But when we tried the BAE Audio 312s on the drum kit, we were able to hear a massive increase in both depth and tone. We could hear much more detail in the natural sound of the wood coming off of the drums — the difference was truly amazing."

The experiment on the drums made Brogaard curious about what he could achieve by putting a BAE Audio 1073MPF preamplifier on Rod's vocal, and the resulting sound was hand in glove. "It is all about the depth, and the unit was able to capture the depth in Rod's voice with a certain natural sheen that I hadn't heard before." Brogaard wasted no time integrating the BAE unit into Rod's vocal chain, bypassing the preamplifiers in the FOH mixing console. Once all of these changes were made, there was unanimous approval: "Everyone on the tech team thought there was a noticeable difference and that it sounded exceptional," he says.

(...) Currently, Brogaard is using (8) channels of BAE Audio 312s on the drums, a 1073DMP on the bass and a 1073MPF on Stewart's vocals. Brogaard keeps the preamps nearby the monitoring console to minimize copper cable runs, thus avoiding potential signal degradation. The new preamplifier rig — which consists of an (8) space 3U 500 series rack unit, a 1U 1073MPF and a 1073DMP — is being used for all of Stewarts performances, including the reunion with Faces, the concert in London's Hyde Park next week, and a gig at Rock In Rio scheduled for the end of this month.