It was the first time Williamson had toured V-DOSC. It was also his first time using Adlib on a full touring show although he's known Andy Dockerty and Tony Szabo for many years and worked with them on previous gigs. "Adlib work in a very personal way with all their clients, and I wanted a company that could guarantee this commitment to service and attention to detail," he states.
They used 8 V-DOSC elements per side with six of the new L-Acoustics SB28 subwoofers per side and 4 ARCS per side ground stacked. Due to the large differences in venue sizes, they also carried 24 dV-DOSC and four dVSUBS to act as side-hangs. For the arenas on the itinerary, they upped the total V-DOSC count to 24. The ARCS also served as front-fills; together with 2 dV-DOSC for front lip-fills. The system was driven by the new LA8 amps which have onboard processing.
At FOH Williamson, who has always been a fan of digital consoles, chose a DigiDesign Profile. He ran 33 channels into it and utilised all the onboard processing and plug-ins.
There was a standard Adlib control rack at FOH, complete with Lake DLPs run on a wireless tablet system. For additional fine tuning and time alignment, they also ran a Meyer SIM 3 system.
Monitor babysitter Declan Fyans oversaw a d&b M2 wedge system onstage, spec'd by monitor engineer Matt Simmons. The side-fills were L-Acoustics ARCS and SB28 subs - one stack of two ARCs and two subs per side, driven by a combination of d&b D12 amps and Labgruppen PLM10000s - also newly purchased by Adlib - offering onboard Lake processing.
The monitor console was a Yamaha PM5D, running 12 mixes, plus two IEM Sennheiser G2 systems for guitarist Pete Clements and drummer Pete Ellard. dbx 160SL compression was running in line with each set of IEMs and a dvSUB at these positions helped fill the area with a bit of air and bass movement. Apart from the dbxs, Simmons used all the consoles' onboard effects and processing.
Lighting was being supplied by Siyan and is designed by Johnny Barker. Scouting For Girls is just one of many tours finishing off a busy year of live music, touring, festivals and events for Liverpool based Adlib.
(Jim Evans)
