The band played a recent high profile, one-off UK show at London's Wembley Arena to great critical acclaim. Nicholson has also engineered the band for their last two UK and European tours.
Adlib supplied equipment to meet Nicholson's spec and audio design for Wembley. The FOH system was tech'd by Tony Szabo and monitors were looked after by Marc Peers who was also Adlib's crew chief, and they were joined by two additional Adlib crew - Kenny Perrin and Michael Flaherty.
Nicholson chose an L-Acoustics system, with 12 V-Dosc speakers a side for the main-hangs complete with 3 dv under-hangs, and 10 of ADLIB's newly purchased Kudo elements per side for the side hangs. "You're under massive pressure doing a large one off like this," explains Nicholson. "There's only the one chance to get it right, and I knew that V-Dosc was right to get the sound that both I and the band wanted throughout the space."
For subs, Nicholson chose 11 arc delayed L-Acoustics SB28s per side which were ground stacked. Four L-Acoustics ARCS cabinets per side were carefully positioned for front-fills, together with two dV-Doscs on the front lip of the stage.
The rig was driven throughout by LA8 amplifiers, and processed by Lake DLPs and the new Lab.gruppen LM26. As usual, Szabo used his Meyer SIM3 acoustic analyzer for all the measurements and time alignment.
Nicholson's console of choice was a DigiDesign Profile, the same as he used for Brand New the last time he mixed them six months ago.
(Jim Evans)
