Some of the new technical aspects for this leg of the tour include a new, fully automated lighting rig. On the sound side, Linkin Park carry on with FOH engineer Ken van Druten, whose full Adamson set-up for mains, sides, delays, and front- fills, remains as number one on the LP technical rider. Kevin McCarthy, LP's monitor engineer also continues requesting 16 Adamson M15 monitors combined with in-ears, for a monitor rig.
Tour Manager Jim Digby engaged the complete sound rig with full turnkey package from Atomic Pro Audio and the tour production from Audio Analysts, both of whom provided production for last year's Project Revolution tour .
The total set-up consists of main clusters of 12 Y18s with an eight Y10 under-hang per side flanked by six flown T21 Subs aside. Beside the Main arrays there are 2 flown in-fill clusters made up of four SpekTrix enclosures each. The side PA has 16 Y10s per side, and the delay side line features eight SpekTrix with SpekTrix waves at the bottom of the array for extreme downward angles. To bring bass to the ground level just four T21 Subs are stacked from L to R. Four SX18s are placed on stage L and R, facing the stage, to give the band a kickback of their energy.
Racks and stacks fully consist of Lab.gruppen fP7000 and fP10000 amplifiers paired with XTA's 448 processors.
(Jim Evans)
