Adlib's systems tech Tony Szabo has worked with the band and FOH engineer Chris Leckie since Adlib first won the sound contract in 2007.
Leckie once again specified a JBL VerTec line array which light in weight, making it easily adaptable for some of the smaller shows in Europe. "We can get 11 cabinets on a 1 tonne point." Szabo points out.
They carried a total of 60 VT4889 mid hi cabinets for the arena leg, together with 16 of the updated VerTec 4880A subs and 16 of the new L-Acoustics SB28 subs. The L-Acoustics SB28 formed a nice solid ground stack whilst the Vertec subs were flown.
A typical configuration was 16 deep VT4889s for the front hangs and 14 for the sides, with 8 flown VerTec subs a side.
Both L-Acoustics ARCS and dVDOSC boxes were utilised for front-fill along with Adlib's standard-issue Lake processing via wireless tablet remote, which did all the EQ and crossovers. Additional EQ, time alignment and fine-tuning was achieved using a Meyer SIM 3 machine.
Adlib also had the opportunity to road test the new Lab gruppen PLM14000 amplifiers, complete with onboard Lake processing, which were used to drive the VerTec subs. As a result, they are buying 12 of the 2 channel versions they had on the tour.
Leckie's preferred console is currently the Soundcraft Vi6. Adlib supplied a Yamaha M7CL console for the support acts.
"It's all gone extremely smoothly," reports Szabo, who worked alongside fellow Ad-libbers Richy Nicholson, Declan Fyans and monitor babysitter Marc Peers.
Over in Monitor world, Kaisers engineer Ilias Adrianatos utilised 13 d&b M2 wedges, with keyboardist Nick Baines and drummer Nick Hodgson on a Sennheiser G2 IEM system. He mixed through a DigiDesign Profile.
(Jim Evans)
