"The flexibility is the biggest thing that attracted us," states Anderson. "The cool thing about the PLM 10000Qs is that basically every one of the channels drives a speaker, so four channels of the amp covers the four channels that the speaker system needs. All you do is dial in the PLM to whatever you want that speaker to do."
Anderson notes that a further benefit of his move to new Lab.gruppen amplifiers is major contraction in the form factor. "We've gone from using 14- to 16-space amp racks down to an eight space rack - three amps plus a power distro. You go into an arena show and all you see are four eight-space racks on each side. It doesn't look right, but it gets just as loud as it ever did."
In their first month of duty, the new PLM 10000Qs were on the road constantly for a combination of full production and 'racks and stacks' shows. In addition to rock shows by Pat Benatar, Elvis Costello and Gov't Mule, the schedule included dates for country singer Sara Evans and corporate events for Hershey Foods.
(Jim Evans)
