Capital Sound’s Paul Timmins explains: "We supported them and provided monitors on a 12-week tour last year when they were on their way up, and they’ve come a very long way very quickly. A year and a half ago were still going around in a van and now they’re taking out a full production including sound, lighting and projection."
This autumn’s one-truck tour production features a Midas Heritage 3000 for FOH with engineer Simon Thomas and a Midas XL4 on monitors, mixed by Dave Lee. 14 cabinets aside of Martin Audio W8C, plus six ground-stacked WSX sub-bass a side, forms the main system, supplemented at Brixton by a small flown system of Martin Audio W8L line array to cover the balcony. Monitoring is a combination of Martin LE700s and Sennheiser wireless in-ear systems. All the Martin Audio loudspeakers, including monitors, are driven by XTA DP224 and DP226 digital loudspeaker processors, providing crossover, EQ and time alignment functions. To control the line array at Brixton, these were augmented by two more DP226s and a GQ600 digital equaliser.
Paul Timmins comments: "We specify XTA loudspeaker processors because they are the best sounding on the market, they’re extremely reliable and because XTA’s AudioCore software makes set-up fast and simple even with a complex system."
(Lee Baldock)
