It was the first 'full Adlib experience' for The Fray's FOH and monitor engineers Mark Maher and Brian Joseph, and they were pleased with the results. James Neale looked after FOH and Richie Nicholson was on monitor duty. Joseph reports: "Richie and James are way above and beyond what we expected as crew - in terms of their knowledge, professionalism, hard work and total dedication to the job."
The sound system was a JBL VerTec line array. This varied in size day to day due to the wide variety of venues on the itinerary, with the full system running at 10 VT4889 elements per side, together with four VT4888s for front-of-stage in-fills, and eight VT4880 subs per side. All Adlib's VerTec subs are now loaded with the new high powered JBL drivers.
Amplifiers were Camco Vortex 6 for the main PA and Crown I-Tech 8000s for the subs. Adlib also supplied three Dolby Lake processors, complete with wireless tablet remote, with the DLPS which were connected digitally to the desk via AES protocol.
At the stage end of the Multicore, Adlib supplied a Yamaha PM5D console for Brian Joseph. He also used all the onboard effects plus some additional BSS DPR 404s compressor/de-essers for the vocals.
They ran six units of Sennheiser G2 series in-ear monitors, complete with five stereo ear mixes and a complete six-way wedge monitor system. Guitarist David Welsh has two different wedge positions, there's also a drum sub and the wedges also serve as a back up system.
(Jim Evans)
