LOS ANGELES – Adam Lambert relied upon Sennheiser's 2000 Series wireless PMs for his Glam Nation tour, which had 72 stops in North America before it headed overseas. Rowe Media Pro co-owner James Berry, Lambert's monitor engineer, recommended the PMs.
"With Sennheiser, the RF is in the bag," said Berry, longtime monitor engineer for Beyoncé and Solange, and a Sennheiser stalwart for the past seven years. "I power the units up during set-up, then scan and sync. That's it. I don't have to worry about the ears for the rest of the day, which is great, because I have a million other things that require my attention."
Lambert's production consists of 10 wireless personal monitors: one for himself, four for techs, four for the band (one drummer, a bass player, a guitarist, and a keyboard player) and one spare.
Five Sennheiser SR 2050 IEM dual channel transmitters with PC-control connect the outputs from Berry's Avid VENUE console to their recipients via Sennheiser EK 2000 IEM belt packs.
Berry uses Sennheiser's scanning feature to find uncluttered frequencies and then uses its "stressed-monitor-engineer-proof," as Berry calls it, sync feature to assign the appropriate frequencies to the belt packs. He uses Sennheiser's Wireless Systems Manager software to keep tabs on the RF rig during the performance.
"I think Sennheiser has always been ahead of the curve with wireless technology, and the new 2000-series ears take things one step further," Berry said. "They have a remarkably clean high end. As a result, I'm able to forgo the high-end boost that used to be a standard part of the way I do things. That makes the overall volume lower, and Adam's happy to run at ‘six' where he previously would have been at ‘eight' or so. In the short term, the change puts all the musicians a bit more in ‘the pocket' from night to night. In the long term, it will help save their hearing."
The Glam Nation tour was set to continue through Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe before taking a break in advance of the holidays.
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