FOH engineer Brent Rawlings reports: "The system is covering really well, I'm impressed. We are working on how to set things up so that when you have two stacks of bottom there's not just one strip of intense sub down the very middle of the PA. We want to have a very evenly dispersed bottom end everywhere and that takes a little experimentation, but we will get something nice."
The tour has taken in arena-sized venues and, generally speaking, the system has comprised two hangs of TA-890H and L flown five wide by five deep with a TA-500HM trapezoidal mid/high down-fill enclosure beneath each hang. "These are wedge shaped boxes that can face at a very steep angle towards the people that are standing underneath them and will cover right up to the stage," says Rawlings.
"This is a five way system and some of the bass speakers are being flown as part of that five wide five deep to get some bottom end in the air. We're doing this because if you are sitting off to the side of the stage and you have a cluster of speakers pointing at you, which are treble, hi mid and low mid, it might just be a little harsh. Adding in some bass means you can feel a little pressure on your chest from the other instruments."
(Jim Evans)
