Showtime Sound extends L-Acoustics inventory
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That pursuit of clarity, intelligibility, and coverage is exactly why the DC area’s first Certified Provider for rental (CPr) has been steadily acquiring an ever-growing inventory of L-Acoustics sound components for both touring comedians and other productions.
With its already large inventory, Showtime Sound has just added an additional 40 K2, 36 Kara, 20 X8 and 12 LA-RAK II, each housing three LA12X amplified controllers. Showtime Sound has also now sold off all of its previous loudspeaker inventory to become an all L-Acoustics SR provider because, as Tydings says, “Making sure the world’s top comedians and musical artists have the absolute best sound money can buy is no joke.”
“Comedians like Kevin have the same level and kind of requirements when it comes to their live sound as any major music artist,” says Tydings, preparing for the second North American leg of Hart’s Irresponsible world tour. The first leg kicked off last September with theatre warm-up shows and, in January, moved to small market arenas doing a conventional end-of-floor setup. The current leg began at the Santander Arena in Reading, PA on 22 March with a new in-the-round setup that doubles the audio needed.
The tour will run until mid-December ending in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On that exhaustive run, for which Tydings is the FOH mixer, he and Hart are accompanied by an L-Acoustics sound system supplied by Showtime Sound made up of 64 K2 and 60 Kara, eight KS28 subs, 20 X8 coaxials - including eight that are used as low-profile wedge monitors - and two self-powered 108P at the FOH mix position. The entire system (sans 108P) is collectively powered by 40 LA12X amplified controllers, and six of the LA-RAK II are flown in custom cages allowing clean cable runs for the in-the-round design.
“The L-Acoustics systems are just in high demand,” he concludes.
(Jim Evans)
