Tour: WorldWired Tour
Sound Cos: Ultrasound, Victory Event Stage & Tour, PRG/VER
Crew
- FOH Engineer: “Big Mick” Hughes,
- Systems Engineers: Chris Hall, Jay Day, Chris Nichols
- Monitor Engineers: Bob Cowan, Adam Correia
- Audio Crew: Paul White (Crew Chief), Mike Bollella, Dana Daniel, Jess Hammersly, Sean McAdam, Pat Row
- Show Director: Dan Braun
- Tour Manager: Eric Johnson
- Production Manager: John “Lug” Zajonc
- Production Assistant: Holly Harkins
- Production Coordinator: Vicki Huxel
- Stage Managers: Michael Washer, Derek Evans
- Rigging: Five Points Production Services
- Head Rigger: Chad Koehler
- Riggers: Chad Koehler (Head), Kenneth Ruhman, Darrell Schlabach
Gear
FOH
- Console: Midas XL-8 (Metallica-owned)
- Outboard/Processing: TC Electronic D-Two, Korg DRV 3000, BBE Sonic Maximizer, Waves Maxx-BCL
- Speakers: Mains: Meyer Lyon, Leo, Leopard, 1100-LFC, VLFC
MON
- Consoles: Midas PRO9, Midas PRO2 (Metallica-owned)
- Wireless Mics: Shure Axient
- Wired: DPA, Shure, Audix, Audio-Technica, Fractal Audio
- Misc: Radial ProD8
Tour Notes:
The 16-leg, 178-show “WorldWired” tour has been touring, off and on, since Feb. 2016, with soundcos UltraSound, Denmark-based Victory Event Stage & Tour and PRG/VER all providing gear for the shows. Meyer Sound also provided a big assist for the two S&M shows opening San Francisco’s Chase Center in September. Bob McCarthy, David Vincent and James Edmondson helped design a 250-box setup for Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony, with an outer ring of 10 arrays in five stereo pairs of Lyon-M, Lyon-W and Leopard components. UPJuniors ringing the stage and 1100-LFC handled the low end, along with system optimization via Galileo Galaxy processing. UltraSound supported the symphony, led by conductor Edwin Outwater, with a massive mic package along with Avid Profile and Yamaha CL5 consoles. The multi-year, multi-continent “WorldWired” tour picks up again in 2020, with a series of shows planned for South America this spring followed by a final series of festival gigs North America this summer and fall.
