"We're a long way from our support base in Australia, so we needed a system that was flexible, reliable, easy to tour, and great sounding," says Kelvin Gedye, sound designer for the Cats production by Really Useful Company Asia Pacific (RUCAP) and the production supervisor for Melbourne, Australia-based System Sound, the tour's sound provider.
"We know Meyer speakers always deliver, night after night. Cats is a very dynamic show, going from whisper-quiet moments to pumping dance segments, with everything in between. It's also a very wordy musical, with T.S. Eliot's witty wordplay transformed to song requiring excellent vocal intelligibility. I've not found a speaker system that can do it better than Meyer."
With the tight turnaround times for touring productions, Gedye's crew enjoys uncommon flexibility from the system, which also includes six CQ-1 loudspeakers, two 650-P subwoofers, three UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers, eight MM-4 loudspeakers, and two UPM-1 loudspeakers, in addition to eight M1D line array loudspeakers. Head of sound on the tour is Jason Graham, who works alongside Kerril Ezzy and Claudia McErlain.
(Jim Evans)
