Jaquiss says: "Adlib is always my first choice of audio company. They were able to come up with an excellent package for both lighting and sound and Neil was very happy to work with Adlib Lighting."
The UK tour was preceded by two days' rehearsals at Shepperton Studios, where Jaquiss put up "a reasonably over-the-top set of near-fields in the form of two VerTec 4889s and one VerTec sub a side approximately 8ft away from the FOH desk."
The standard 12 VerTec 4889 a side (left and right) system utilised on the tour was doubled up for the arena shows at Cardiff International Centre and for London's Royal Albert Hall. They also used 12 VerTec subs. The system configuration varied slightly according to the different venues, and was optimised each day by Adlib systems tech, Richie Nicholson.
They used two Soundcraft Vi6 consoles, ran in 96ch V3 mode, which Jaquiss filled with around 80 inputs, 56 of which were stage alone - including guest vocals and assorted media.
Adlib supplied one of its standard Dolby Lake processing systems with wireless tablet remote, which was networked with additional processors for the RAH show.
The monitor setup was mainly all in-ears - Barrowman, band, crew & guests - for which Adlib supplied a large Sennheiser G2 system for the radio IEMs and a number of Shure packs for the hard-wired mixes.
It was LD Neil Trenell's second tour with Barrowman and ADLIB Lighting also supplied the last one. He designed a three-truss rig, with an 'H' truss in the centre to fill the void, and a large starcloth at the back with a white gauze downstage of this for projections.
He used a Hippotizer media server for all the video projection content, triggered by his grandMA2 full size console which was running in grandMA Series 1 mode. The projectors were a pair of Christie 10K Roadsters.
The moving lights were 20 Martin Professional MAC 700 Profiles and 16 MAC 700 Washes. On the front truss, he placed Source Fours with 10 degree lenses for key lighting, and a string of 2 cell Moles were also on the front truss. 30 JTE PixelPAR 90s provided very efficient up-lighting and top lighting for the cyc.
(Jim Evans)
