Adlib on The Script for Freedom Child tour
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He and monitor guru Marc Peers are also both well-known Adlib regulars who have worked on previous Script tours and are both assuming engineering roles for the first time.
Adlib has provided audio for The Script’s four previous album campaigns which has included three arena tours and some stadium shows. Long term FOH engineer Richy Nicholson has actually flipped roles on this one, after many years of mixing FOH, he’s representing Adlib as the account handler, co-ordinating everything from the office and warehouse perspectives.
A top touring crew join Pato and Marc on the road including systems engineer Alan Harrison, George Puttock, Jay Petch and Laurie Binns.
It’s the first time The Script have used CODA in arenas, a decision made by Pato after using it on last summer’s album launch tour.
The main system set-up is main left and right hangs of 14 x AiRAY dual 12” speakers, complete with four ViRAY dual 8-inch downs, side-hangs of 12 x AiRAY with four ViRAY downs, plus an upstage hang of eight ViRAY and a centre cluster comprising another eight.
The flown subs are eight SC2 dual 15-inch bass cabinets, run in conjunction with a ground-stacked spaced array of 32 x SCP dual 18 subs. APS 10s and HOPS 8s are used for front-fills.
The PA drive system is digital from mic converters to the amps, so benefits from minimal signal degradation from multiple A to D conversions. Alan feeds his Lake LM44 at FOH via AES from the Allen & Heath S7000 console, and then Dante down to the Lake LM26 processors positioned stage left and right. AES over CAT6 from these is sent to the amplifiers which are the new 4-channel Linus 14 with 5K of RMS per channel.
Adlib’s Marc Peers has worked on the last four Script album tours in different roles including audio crew chief on the last one, however this is the first time he’s mixed their monitors. He’s specified a Midas PRO X console.
The band tour their own Sennheiser IEM system and the only monitor speaker onstage is an Adlib MP4 drum sub for some atmosphere in that area. They are running 8 channels of Sennheiser 2000 series, five for the band, a spare, a tech mix and an EQ channel, so it’s a straightforward setup.
The tour is proving a big hit and is currently scheduled to continue in Europe and then visit Asia, Australia and South Africa before returning to the UK and Ireland.
Richy Nicholson commented, “It has been great being part of the Script Family for so many years and to have the opportunity to carry on in this new capacity. They are a brilliant live band and the production always gets better with each tour. Pato and Marc along with our crew are doing a great job out there, long may it continue.”
(Jim Evans)
