LONDON — Adlib Audio, which supplied sound for The Fray’s 2007 tour, was back this year, providing FOH control and a stage system for the band’s recent stops in the U.K. and Europe.
Mark Maher, The Fray’s FOH engineer, specified a DigiDesign Profile console for his mix, to which he added a pair of Empirical Labs EL8-X distressors for the snare drum and acoustic guitar.
ADLIB systems engineer Declan Fyans toured with a Dolby Lake processing system and wireless tablet remote, which he used to EQ and fine tune the house speaker systems.
“It was interesting working with different loudspeaker brands each day, all have their own characteristics and nuances, but generally all the ones we encountered were good quality, and we achieved great results in all the different rooms,” Fyans said. The various systems included JBL VerTec, L-Acoustics dV-DOSC, Meyer Sound MILO, Martin Audio W8LM and d&b J-Series.
ADLIB’s stage system consisted of a Yamaha PM5D console for engineer Robert Nelson, complete with 6 Sennheiser G2 IEM mixes and 5 d&b M2 wedges, driven by D12 amps. They also supplied a dV-SUB for the drummer powered by a Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q amp.
Lead singer Isaac Slade’s mic of choice was a Sennheiser G2 500 series radio mic with a 935 head.
This setup “made a lot of sense and worked really well,” Fyans said.
For more information, please visit www.adlibaudio.co.uk.
