Adlib has worked with the band's FOH sound engineer Steve Revitte before, most recently on Hot Chip, and he was instrumental in getting them back onboard for LCD along with tour manager Mark Duston.
Adlib supplied a complete monitor system and consoles for the entire tour, which picked up racks-and-stacks throughout Europe. In the UK, they supplied a full PA for the larger venues and then, when possible, hooked into those with good house speaker systems like the Academies. Richy Nicholson was the Adlib systems engineer for the full tour, joined by Otto Kroymann for the UK leg.
The FOH console was a DigiDesign Venue. The monitor console was a DigiDesign profile, spec'd by monitor engineer Christina Moon.
The band were all on wedges - they had been using d&b M2s whilst rehearsing in New York, and so Adlib provided 12 of these, plus D&B side-fills, consisting of two C4-Sub and two C7 Tops per side. These were stacked up on cases for extra height.
The band carried their own complete set of mics - primarily Sennheiser and Shure, so Adlib supplied a package for opening act, Yacht. LCD lead singer James Murphy uses a Sennheiser 409 mic, more commonly used on guitars, but he particularly likes the sound of it.
For the shows where Adlib were supplying racks-and-stacks, Revitte went for a JBL VerTec system, mainly because of its flexibility as a flown, a ground stacked or a combined system. Ten VT4889 elements made up the main arrays for Brixton, with six VT4880A subs per side.
These were driven by a mix of Camco Vortex 6 amps for the main 4889s and Labgruppen PLM14000s for the subs, together with one of Adlib's standard Lake DLP racks to deal with EQ and crossovers. The Lake rack stayed on for the whole tour for general FOH EQ on the various house systems.
Adlib's Charlie Rushton and Neil Holloway looked after the lighting for Kansas City, Missouri based LD Eric Cathcart, whose rig was a mix of conventionals and moving lights based around two 40ft trusses - front and back.
The back truss contained three bars of 6 PARs, six Martin Professional MAC 700 Spots, four MAC 700 Washes and 10 2-lite Moles. The front truss had four bars of six, seven ETC source Four Zoom 25 - 50 profiles for key lighting and four Atomic strobes facing into the audience.
(Jim Evans)
