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(Showtime Classic) Janet Jackson ‘State of the World’ Tour

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Janet Jackson tour photo by Mark Brown, B51 Photography

Sound Co: Sound Image

Venue: Various (2017/2019 Tour)

Crew

FOH Engineer: Kyle Hamilton

Monitor Engineer: Jim Roach

Systems Engineer: Brendan Hines

Playback Engineer: Demetrius Henry

Crew Chief: Joe Calabrese

Techs: Jarrod Geruntino, Alex Reeder

Gear

FOH Console: DiGiCo SD7

Outboard: Universal Audio UAD-2 Live Rack

Mains: VUE Audiotechnik al-12 line arrays

Front Fills: VUE Audiotechnik al-8

Subwoofers: VUE Audiotechnik hs-21

Monitor Console: DiGiCo SD7

Stage Fills: VUE al-12s with al-12SB subs

IEMs: Jerry Harvey Audio JH-16

Wireless Mics: Sennheiser, Shure

Wired Mics: Shure, Heil, Audix, Sennheiser, Royer

Event Details:

Jackson’s “State of the World” tour included 79 shows that ran from Sept.-Dec. 2017, with subsequent legs running for most of the second half of 2018 and spilling over into early 2019. Kyle Hamilton won a 2019 Parnelli Award as “FOH Engineer of the Year” for his work on this tour.