A total of 11 XTA DP226 are used to control an extensive Martin Audio line array system. "It's something we developed from Lee's 2005 XL tour, which in itself was a development from the Eddie Izzard system we'd used two years previously," says Capital Sound's Paul Timmins. "We now have a design for large-scale comedy which we think serves the range of venues on this current tour very well."
"We have all the delay XTAs in the rack as a master unit and we use that as a matrix to drive the other XTAs which are stage end, which runs straight off the multicore," explains audio crew chief Matt Harman-Trick. "It's all being controlled by a Moxa unit and we run everything from a graphics tablet so that we can wander round the room and make any the changes using XTA's AudioCore software."
(Jim Evans)
