ENGLAND —ADLIB Audio supplied a V-DOSC sound system to the recent Scouting For Girls UK tour, which was specified by the band's FOH engineer Andy Williamson. It was the first time Williamson had toured with V-DOSC, who thought the time was right to give it a good road test. It was also his first time using ADLIB on a full touring show.
They used eight V-DOSC elements per side with six of the new L-ACOUSTICS SB28 subwoofers per side and four ARCS per side ground stacked. Due to the large differences in venue sizes, they also carried 24 dV-DOSC and four dVSUBS to act as side hangs. For the arenas on the itinerary, they upped the total V-DOSC count to 24. The ARCS also served as front fills together with two dV-DOSC for front lip fills. The system was driven by the new LA8 amps with onboard processing.
At FOH, Williamson, who has always been a fan of digital consoles, chose a Digidesign Profile. He ran 33 channels into it and used all the onboard processing and plug-ins. There was a standard ADLIB control rack at FOH, complete with Lake DLPs run on a wireless tablet system. For additional fine-tuning and time alignment, they also ran a Meyer SIM 3 system.
Monitor babysitter Declan Fyans oversaw a d&b M2 wedge system onstage, spec'd by monitor engineer Matt Simmons.The side fills were L-ACOUSTICS ARCS and SB28 subs — one stack of two ARCs and two subs per side, driven by a combination of d&b D12 amps and Lab.gruppen PLM10000s offering onboard Lake processing.
The monitor console was a Yamaha PM5D, running 12 mixes plus two IEM Sennheiser G2 systems for guitarist Pete Clements and drummer Pete Ellard. dbx 160SL compression was running in line with each set of IEMs and a dvSUB at these positions helped fill the area with a bit of air and bass movement.
Creatively, it's a big pop show, so Williamson had a nightly battle to elevate the general volume above a cacophony of enthusiastic screaming fans. He also had to ensure the vocals were clearly audible, revealing Scouting For Girls' characteristically quirky lyrics, which are important to the show and the ethos of the music.
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