Matt Mills and Follow-Me track KoRn on tour
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Having been Introduced to Follow Me-2D in 2017 on a Europe run with Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed, Matt immediately saw what this could add to his shows: “Since then I have bought several Follow-Me 2D licenses and early January 2019 our design firm, Touch Light & Media, invested in the new Follow-Me 3D systems. We have rented our systems to several international tours, Shinedown, The Killers, many corporate events, and several high-profile political events.”
On previous shows, the band was bothered by the traditional follow-spots being at lower angles and blinding them. Matt chose to see if Follow-Me 3D could be a good solution to reducing this issue. Each band member has two Spiders at 45°
angles from the DS truss to follow them, they are very happy with the results. This set up with Follow-Me 3D including a total fixture use of 10 Robe Spiders and 14 Martin Vipers Plus also enables all the fade in/out, colour changes and blackouts to be completely in sync, with these parameters controlled via the MA lighting desk. Pan and Tilt of the fixtures remained in the hands of the Follow-Me operators via the MFM Mouse Consoles. This set up with Follow-Me allows Matt to get creative with guitar solos, intros and outros, and accent different band members solos.
The ease and speed with which Follow-Me can be set up and operated on tour has impressed Matt. “The initial setup at the first show took an hour or so, now it usually takes me around 30 minutes to get the camera and fixtures re-calibrated. This is my first time touring with the Follow Me 3D and I decided to handle everything myself so I could get more real time experience with it.” During the pandemic Matt was able to set Follow-Me up in his home office coupled with his visualisers.
Before each show, Matt runs a spot meeting and has the operators sit down and move the targets around on the screen to get used to the way the Follow-Me consoles react. “So far, the operators have really enjoyed using Follow-Me and had positive things to say about the experience.”
