A set of shows over two evenings was the Asian maiden voyage for the new Adamson E15 system. Big Daddy productions based in Jakarta, Indonesia together with Team 108, Adamson's distributor for Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia), came together to provide a large scale E15 system for the two back-to-back events.
Big Daddy productions, a division of Big Daddy Entertainment Group recently acquired an E15 system as a beta testing company. This enables Big Daddy to place the new system in front of numerous tours and FOH engineers travelling through the heavily populated nation. Upcoming tours making a stop in Jakarta on the new Adamson rig include Sadie, Richard Marx, Elton John and Rod Stewart.
Team 108's technical staff were on the ground among Adamson's director of marketing & sales Jesse Adamson, and technical sales support Ewan McDonald, who flew in to direct and ensure training of staff, and to achieve the best possible sounding setup for the multi-award winning sound crew of the Grammy winning band, Linkin Park.
McDonald who designed the system for the venue, arrived at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Senayan, Jakarta, to oversee safe setup of the PA tower. Adamson and Team 108 aided local system integrator Big Tone with the rigging and installation of the PA. A total of 60 x E15s, 38 x T21s and 16 x Metrix were deployed to cover the stadium show. The final configuration included 18 x E15's flanked by eight flown T21 subs per side, with 12 E15's on each side-hang. Additional ground support for the flown arrays was made up of two stacks of End-Fire Cardioid T21 Sub arrays, each consisting of six T21subs in front of the stage, and two Horizontal arrays of 5 T21 Subs covering the extreme left/right seating. A horizontal array was used to minimize lobing effects on the centre seating area and only focus sub energy on the outside seats. Four stacks of four Metrix 5 degree cabinets were used as front-fills.
(Jim Evans)
