The Fray's FOH engineer Mark Maher specified a DigiDesign Profile console for his mix, to which he added a pair of Empirical Labs EL8-X distressors for the snare drum and acoustic guitar.
Adlib systems engineer Declan Fyans toured a Dolby Lake processing system and wireless tablet remote, which he used to EQ and fine tune the house speaker systems. "It was interesting working with different loudspeaker brands each day, all have their own characteristics and nuances, but generally all the ones we encountered were good quality, and we achieved great results in all the different rooms". The various systems included JBL VerTec, L-Acoustics dV-DOSC, Meyer Sound MILO, Martin Audio W8LM and d&b J-Series.
Adlib's stage system consisted of a Yamaha PM5D console for engineer Robert Nelson, complete with six Sennheiser G2 IEM mixes and five d&b M2 wedges, driven by D12 amps. They also supplied a dV-SUB for the drummer powered by a Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q amp.
Lead singer Isaac Slade's mic was a Sennheiser G2 500 series radio mic with a 935 head.
For The Fray's lighting designer Joel Wojcik, the specials package consisted of 10 four-way and six two-way Molefeys. They were powered by an Avolites Art2000 T2 dimmer module and Adlib also supplied an MA Lighting grandMA light console for control.
(Jim Evans)
