ATLANTA — Up-and-coming pop/punk powerhouse All Time Low have played to packed houses night after night on their nationwide headlining tour. Nowhere did things start out more sketchy, but end more rocking, than a recent performance at Atlanta’s Masquerade. With the help of Danley Sound Labs engineer, Ivan Beaver, the band’s FOH engineer Evan Kirkendall, owner of Harford Sound, located in Abington, Maryland, replaced the Masquerade’s sound system with a stack of Danley loudspeakers and subwoofers, led by eight of Danley’s new full-range SH-46s.
“I was at this venue back in April of this year and did not have a very pleasant experience at all,” stated Kirkendall. “Consultant Phillip Graham and Ivan also attended that show, and they both shared my disappointment in the house system. It sounded thin, harsh and old. It lacked the get-up-and-go required to put on a real rock show in the 21st century.”
This time around, Beaver along with another Danley employee, Dale Skrobot, helped Kirkendall with the sound. Beaver brought eight Danley SH-46s and two SH-50s for front fill. Unlike the flagship SH-50, the SH-46 is new to Danley’s lineup. The SH-46 delivers noticeably more output than its sibling with a modest trade-off in frequency range. The SH-46 measures 58Hz to 16kHz, whereas the SH-50 measures 50Hz to 18kHz. With a 40-x-60-degree dispersion pattern, the SH-46 may be operated vertically or horizontally and either alone or in an array.
To provide a low-end worthy of All Time Low Zack Merrick’s Fender J-Bass, and Rian Dawson’s kick drum of death, Beaver brought six Danley TH-115s and four of the Danley new prototype subs currently dubbed “Hot Rods.”
“The SH-46 is really Danley’s answer to that perception. It delivers Danley’s characteristic undistorted sound with really loud output. To me, the SH-46 is more of a “rock n’ roll” type box compared to other Danley boxes. The Hot Rods are also very impressive subs. They are solid to 30Hz and really crank out the lows,” Kirkendall says.
As it turned out, everyone had a great night except for Beaver and Skrobot.
“Ivan and Dale spent most of the night holding the speakers in place,” explained Kirkendall. “Another ‘feature’ of the Masquerade is its floor, which bends and sways when the kids start jumping. It’s wooden and on the second story of an old mill building. Despite being strapped down as tightly as humanly possible, the stacks were still swaying. All that being said, in my opinion, this was one of Masquerade’s best concerts in a long time.”
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