Sound Company
Band-owned gear, house rigs
Venue
Various (Tour)
Crew
- FOH Engineer: Brendon Harris
- Guitar Tech: Thor Davis
- Tour Manager: Ryan Westbrook
- Road Manager: Aaron Beckstead
Gear
FOH
- Console: Allen & Heath CTi500
- Speakers: Venue-supplied
MON
- Vocal Mics: Telefunken M80, M81
- IEMs: Shure Axient PSM
Tour Details
Larkin Poe, featuring sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, hit the road this year in support of their 2025 album, Bloom. They are known as a guitar-driven duo combining southern harmonies with American roots rock and blues, playing electric, lap steel, dobro, banjo, mandolin, acoustic, along with the violin and piano. FRONT of HOUSE caught a great performance when they performed at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA on April 25.
FOH Engineer Brendon Harris has been used an Allen & Heath CTi1500 with a DM0 with Larkin Poe for the past few years. “It’s a super intuitive system with so much power in the box and it’s nice that you can easily check it on a flight,” he says.
The band started doing monitors on their own about seven or eight years ago, and Harris says the band have become very adapted to it. “With the consistency of our backline, it’s pretty easy to just plug and play without many tweaks needed from day to day,” he notes. “I also adapted a method from FOH Engineer Jake Hartsfield of just splitting channels 1-64 for FOH and 65-128 for monitors. It keeps the setup very manageable and with the new personal mixer app from A&H, it’s become even easier for the band to control what they need.”
Harris is only running in the box for effects and processing, saying he hasn’t felt enough of a need to hassle with connecting an outside source. “I’m not carrying any outboard gear either,” he adds. “I’ve toyed with carrying some sort of master bus processing, but haven’t pulled the trigger on it yet. This show is very straightforward, pure, the way it should be.”
For IEMs, he continues, “we just switched to the new Axient PSM system from Shure and it’s been a game changer. They noticed an immediate difference in the clarity and the stability has really improved. As well as being able to use showlink to streamline my workflow with the absence of a monitor engineer.”
Both Rebecca and Megan Lovell use Telefunken M80 vocal mics, and all of the backing band are using M81’s. “They really seem to be flexible from small rooms to big outdoor festivals and help tame backline bleed into the vocals.”
—Steve Jennings
