For more than 25 years, PUR have been well known for their live performances and place complete trust in the comprehensive planning and production service that Sirius provides for their tours. For the Wünsche tour, PA and system engineers Frank Müller and Klaus 'Bob' Bolender worked with the stage designers' ultra-modern concept, positioning the system to the right and left of the rigging to ensure wide coverage without impeding audience site lines. Müller developed the audio design for the tour alongside Happel and Eckerlin, the latter having worked with the SD7 since the console's launch.
"The SD7 was the linchpin for everything and was an essential component for PUR's system," says Eckerlin. "Dirk and I used two stage racks with 56 inputs each, with all relevant inputs for the band patched on the first stage rack. We recorded every show with Concert Online, which was the reason I sent a MADI stream of all the important 'hand-made' stage signals and all dry and effect sum signals from my SD7 to an outside broadcast vehicle. The live recording that was made was immediately available for sale to PUR's fans on a USB stick at the end of the show."
(Jim Evans)
