The standard system configuration was 12 boxes a side for left and right arrays, combined with four dV Subs on the floor along with eight of the new high output SB28 double 18" subs. The system was driven with the new LA8 DSP-laden amplifiers which are also part of Adlib's recent L-Acoustics investment.
Butterworth - also the tour's production manager - specified the Digidesign D-Show Venue FOH console, on which he utilised all the onboard effects, plus the Focusrite D2 and D3 compressors and EQ plug-ins, the Reverb 1 plug-in and Line 6 delays. All the EQ and time alignment was achieved via two Dolby Lake DLPs.
Onstage, monitor engineer Rich Geduld opted to stay in the analogue domain, mixing with a Midas XL3 console. XTA processors took care of the onstage graphic EQs and he used Drawmer gates, dbx compressors and an SPX 990 for reverb.
He ran a combination of four Sennheiser G2 IEM mixes and 13 Adlib MP3 wedges utilised as four pairs (Gabrielle, bass, drums and backing vocalists) and five singles. Gabrielle - in addition to her IEM mix - also had side- fills consisting of two Adlib DF2s. Gabrielle uses a Shure KSM9 hand held radio mic.
(Jim Evans)
