Guest artists included Dave Edmunds, Jools Holland, Mark Knopfler, Chas & Dave, and Dennis Locorriere. "This was always going to be a bit of a tricky show to manage," said Ian Grove, Brown's long time sound engineer, "and not just channel counts. I've done sound in the Albert Hall many times but this was my first playing to a full house.
"I ended up designing a system using six hangs of d&b Q-Series loudspeakers, and a single hang of Q subwoofers. It's been my experience in here that with large centre clusters of PA, a lot of low end is put onto the stage. With a single column of Q subwoofers eight deep you have a line almost four metres long; realistically that gives you directional control down between 100 and 125 Hz. I also had six Q-SUBs and two B2s ground stacked, with the Qs running in 100 Hz mode. The results were perfect; I got none of that build up, usually somewhere around 118 Hz, that you can get at the middle of the room."
(Jim Evans)
