ENGLAND — Adlib recently supplied audio for German rockers The Scorpions' UK tour. ADLIB's Hassane Essiahi and Otto Kroyman babysat the band FOH and monitor engineers Achim Schulze and Glen Schmeling, ensuring their JBL VerTec system rocked to the required extremes.
They carried VT4889 mid highs and 4880A subs, for the larger shows flying 10 89s with four ground-stacked subs a side. Infills and outfills were a mix of Adlib FD2 and AA122s, with these and the main stacks driven by a combination of Camco Vortex 6 amplifiers & Crown I- Tech 8000s.
Processing and EQ was achieved using Dolby Lake Processors and a tablet remote, as is standard with most ADLIB rigs. Schulze also used BSS 902 graphics.
Schulze ran 40 channels into his Midas Heritage H3000 FOH console, picked for its classic rock 'n' roll sound. The FOH setup included the integration of a complex set of custom outboards that have been developed and built by Schulze over many years of mixing the band, along with Adlib’s dbx 160A and BSS 402 compressors and Drawmer gates. The effects rack contained a Yamaha SPX 2000 Lexicon PCM 81 and a TC D2 delay amongst units.
As with any exceedingly loud, in-the-face rock band, one of the challenges was dealing with the guitars blasting out onstage, "Achim is a real expert at this," states Essiani, adding that after working with the Scorpions for about 20 years, he's well aware of how to engineer the best sounds out of them whatever the venue or the system. "He takes a very classic approach to rock 'n' roll mixing—listening intensely to each instrument onstage and then EQing each channel to it."
All the supports, which included former Scorpions members Michael Schenker and Uli John Roth, were mixed from one of Adlib’s Yamaha LS9 consoles.
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