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ADLIB Supplies Sound and Lights for Hanson
Liverpool based ADLIB Audio supplied a Nexo Alpha PA and lighting system to the recent Hanson tour. This follows on from ADLIB’s previous work with the band – on their two previous UK tours.
Chris Sudall babysat at FOH for the band’s engineer Kevin James, while Steve Cole mixed and looked after monitor world.
The PA configuration was ground stacked and consisted of six Nexo Alpha M3 mid/tops, six B1 bass enclosures and four S2 subs a side. For the larger venues they added more M3s for infills and outfills as required, and they also toured and used ADLIB FD2 cabinets for infills.
The FOH desk was a Yamaha PM5D, on which they fully utilised its onboard effects and processing plus the proprietary Nexo processors. The desk also had enough space on which to fit the opening act.
The system was powered by Crown VZ 5002 amplifiers throughout – which are an ADLIB standard when running the Nexo Alpha system. Sudall really likes Nexo for its great versatility, which is particularly useful for tours like this that played venues of varying sizes.
At the other end of the multicore, Steve Coles ran eight sets of Sennheiser 300 IEMs for the band and their backline techs. He likes Sennheiser because its very easy to run, and frequency issues can be quickly and simply sorted using the onboard scanning facility. The band all used their own Ultimate Ears moulds.
The mics were largely Shure Beta 58s on the vocals with SM 57s on the guitars – a very classic set up. They mic’d up a Yamaha C7 acoustic piano with AKG 414s, and Cole mixed on a Soundcraft SM20 console.
ADLIB Lighting’s Peter Abraham designed the lighting rig which consisted of a front and back truss, with four bars of 6 PARs and 4-lite Moles on the front, and eight bars of 6 PARs with four Martin Professional MAC 550 moving lights on the back. There were another four MAC 550s on the floor.
Abraham has also worked with Hanson before. He programmed and ran the show on an Avolites Pearl 2004. “I kept the design clean and vintage looking” he explains, saying that the idea was to have it a little bit retro but also to reflect the new album which is less poppy and has a more chilled out approach, complete with several acoustic tracks.
His crew comprised Charlie Rushton and Dave Eldridge.
Photo Steve Gillett, Live Phtography
25th May 2007
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