Hillsong United's latest US tour spanned venues from LA's Staples Centre to Boston's Orpheum Theatre. Among the equipment complement was a grandMA2 full-size front of house for lighting control and a grandMA2 light as backup.
Ian Hendrick, who designed the tour's lighting and programmed and operated the grandMA2, has been using MA Lighting consoles for more than a decade. "I don't see any reason to stop," he says. "The original grandMA was a solid platform that was powerful enough for anything you could throw at it, scalable from the smallest gig to the biggest extravaganza, and surprisingly user friendly once you got to know it - with everything you might need at your fingertips."
Mid-America Sound Corporation of Greenfield, Indiana outfitted the tour; Hendrick programmed the grandMA2 at Mid-America where the initial set up was done, says lighting division manager Bob Williams. Hillsong United's lighting "tends toward concert rigs that can be easily adapted to fit into the wide range of venues we perform in," says Hendrick.
At Hillsong United, Steve Pippett was the production manager and Ricki Cook was in charge of media servers. At Mid-America Sound, Al Story was the crew chief. Andy Woody and Robert Dilk were lighting techs.
(Jim Evans)
