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Canegreen Sound Divine with Meyer
Divine Comedy frontman Neil Hanlon has always pushed artistic boundaries and his latest album and tour continued his penchant for trying something different. The addition of the 17-piece orchestra to Hanlon’s arrangements inspired the choice of theatres for the current tour.
To fulfil the varied acoustic challenges of the different venues and get efficient sound coverage to the whole audience, Canegreen selected their Meyer Milo line-array speaker This adaptability was highlighted when on the first night of the tour in Liverpool Royal Court Theatre, Canegreen’s project leader Mike Savage flew three Milo’s each side of the stage, with a steep angle to project sound into the top balcony, with Meyer M2D’s and Meyer subs on the theatre floor covering the lower levels. The system had to be totally reconfigured the following night, when the production team arrived at the London Palladium and discovered the incumbent Chitty Bang Bang musical left them no hanging points and no room for subs due to the orchestra pit. Mike worked with Divine Comedy’s FOH sound engineer Adam Pendse and the venue’s in-house staff and re-designed the system to ensure every member of the audience enjoyed good sound for the concert. To achieve this, four Milo’s were ground-stacked either side of the stage with Meyer M2D’s on top as backfills and Meyer UPA-1p’s in-filling for the front rows of the audience.
Adam Pendse has been with the band for three years. He specified a Midas XL-4 and controlled the whole system through a pair of networked Soundwebs, running an Eventide 3000 for Neil’s voice pair with of TC 2000 units to generate a range of effects, which Adam utilised liberally to accentuate the dynamics of the orchestra.
He commented: “The band are playing some ‘interesting’ venues on this tour in quick succession, so the fact that the equipment is so good and Canegreen’s crew can adapt the rig to get a great sound in any venue with minimal fuss, has been very impressive. On the Palladium show we not only had to redesign the system, we had to deal with setting up by 2.30pm to accommodate rehearsal for a film crew shooting a DVD for the tour, giving them an additional set of feeds, which the guys took in their stride.”
Canegreen’s Mike Savage was also monitor engineer, using a Midas Heritage 3000 to mix Neil and the 15-piece orchestra. A combination of the preparatory Canegreen monitors and UPA-1p’s ensured everyone was happy with their stage sound.
In picture: Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy.
17th May 2004
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