FORT WAYNE, IN — When Buckcherry and Avenged Sevenfold united for their co-headlining world tour, Avenged’s FOH Engineer Nigel Paul and his Buckcherry counterpart Stephen Shaw chose a Meyer Sound system to meet their goal of achieving a combination of power and clarity.
“It’s quite possible to crank it up without being obnoxious, yet also be smooth and linear,” said Paul.
The tour features opening acts Saving Abel, Papa Roach, and Shinedown, and has been playing to crowds ranging from 5,500 to 17,000. Taylor, Mich.-based Thunder Audio is providing the sound system based around the MILO line array loudspeaker from Meyer Sound.
“Overall, the decision to use Meyer speakers took about five seconds, because of both Nigel’s and my previous experience using the cabinets,” said Shaw. “Both of these bands have a real throwback sound, so the MILO is ideal, given its smooth, flat response.”
The system is based on left and right arrays of 16 MILO line array loudspeakers, with twin arrays of up to eight MICA line array loudspeakers for side hangs, and four UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers for frontfill. A Galileo loudspeaker management system assists system processing, with tuning courtesy of the SIM 3 audio analyzer.
“We first used Meyer on the last Avenged tour,” said Paul, “and everybody loved it, especially the band. Meyer really helps me keep every sound onstage clean and distinct. To get a precise mix you need complementary tools. With some systems when you go a bit higher, they get a bit ragged, but Meyer has outstanding response and articulation at any SPL.”
For more information, please visit www.meyersound.com.
