This year the Adlib team - co-ordinated by Dave Jones - supplied sound to the second In New Music We Trust stage; the Introducing Stage for up and coming new talent; The Headroom Tent, a live broadcast interview station for artists participating in the event; the Live Lounge Acoustic Stage and the Switch Stage which was upstairs on an open top double decker bus. Lighting was designed and supplied for the Introducing Stage by Adlib Lighting.
It's the third year that the Liverpool based sound and lighting rental company has been working on this high profile event, with 2009 seeing their largest involvement yet.
This year INMWT sound was fine tuned by crew chief Marc Peers who ran the stage and patch with Kenny Perrin on monitors, working alongside Craig Pryde at FOH and Michael Flaherty. The sound system featured a flown JBL VerTec rig. Onstage monitoring was L-Acoustics side-fills and Adlib MP3 wedges, with two dV-subs for drum-fills. Adlib also supplied a full mics-and-stands package to cater for all line ups and backline possibilities.
The consoles were two Midas Heritages, each complete with a comprehensive effects rack package, and the system was EQ'd and processed using the standard Adlib set up of Dolby Lake with remote wireless tablet.
The Introducing Stage featured a ground stacked Nexo Alpha system, with the Yamaha M7 CL FOH console also used to run the monitor system. This consisted of six MP3 wedges and a drum-fill.
Adlib's lighting design was expedient and highly effective, based on four upright bars of four upstage pre-rigged trussing, fully loaded with PARs in open white, with two upright bars of six pars either side at the front for a front wash. Four bars of ACLs were positioned horizontally on the upright trusses and vertically on the two offstage uprights - two bars in each location.
The moving lights were four Martin Professional MAC550s side hung on the uprights, with another two on the front of the stage for audience effects. There were also six MAC 250 Washes. All lighting was run from an Avolites Pearl Expert lighting desk.
The Live Lounge sounds were delivered by an ADLIB FD2 system - one mid-high pack and one sub a side, together with a Yamaha LS9 32 channel digital desk and eight Adlib wedges.
All went very smoothly for Adlib, with Dave Jones commenting, "Good preparation and planning is the key to this type of event - with its extremely tight schedules and turnarounds - running efficiently and well. As always with Adlib shows, everyone worked hard and also enjoyed being part of the unique atmosphere of the event and experiencing some excellent music."
(Jim Evans)
