USA - Although Nashville has long been best known as a country music Mecca, fast-rising pop-punk bands like Paramore are diversifying the image of Music City USA. Recently coming off the road with its final tour in support of the band's second album, Riot!, the group's engineers were impressed by Rat Sound's L-acoustics loudspeaker rig, which the band had been carrying for the first time.

Greg Mahler served as the FOH/system tech for the six-week North American tour, which utilised a PA comprised of a dozen V-Dosc plus three dV-Dosc down-fills hung per side. Three additional dV-Dosc were flown on the downstage lighting truss for centre-fill.

With most of the venues on this particular trek being outdoor amphitheaters, six-box Kudo arrays were also flown on either side of the stage to address the far left and right seating areas. "We also occasionally used Kudo for ground-stack and in situations where weight was an issue," notes Mahler.

Although Paramore rely on in-ear monitors, a total of ten L-acoustics 115XT HiQ wedges were positioned on stage for the support bands, as were a pair of Arcs cabinets for side-fill.

(Jim Evans)


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