ENGLAND — Adlib is supplying audio equipment and crew for the current Dragonforce UK tour mixed by Bruce Reiter. Adlib is supplying a NEXO Alpha system, with the standard configuration of 18 M3 mid high boxes, 12 B1 bass cabinets and 10 S2 subs. Playing a wide variety of venues, they’re flying where possible and ground-stacking the rest of the time. For general infills, they are using four Adlib AA122s.
NEXO’s NX242 processors are used across all the NEXO elements, feeding Camco Tecton amplifiers driving the mid highs, Crown VZ5002s powering the bass and subs and Crown XTi’s for the infills. The system is time aligned each day by ADLIB’s systems engineer Richy Nicholson using EAW’s SMAART analysis software.
The FOH desk is a DigiDesign Venue, Reiter’s console of choice. He’s using only one piece of outboard — a dbx Drive Rack PA, which contains a sub-harmonic synth through which he routes the toms to an aux send and returns it to the channel with added boom and click.
They are using EV Rev microphones, including the RE510 vocal mic, which “sounds awesome” enthuses Atlanta-based Reiter, who seems to have cracked the challenge of getting it hugely loud with every word being totally audible. They are using Sennheiser mics on the toms and the new EV PL series on cymbals and other vocals.
Creatively, he tries to keep the low tight as howling guitars are the primary focus, so the bass needs to be controlled because of the sheer pace of the band. Reiter has worked with Dragonforce since 2006 and has done two previous tours with them using Adlib.
Monitors are mixed by Adlibs Dave Davies, who’s been onboard for a year. All six of them use Sennheiser G2 stereo IEMs, which keeps the stage clean to maximize every inch of it for the hectic show.
Davies mixes with a Yamaha PM5D. It’s also a logical choice to run in tandem with the IEM system, and the two combined make for a quick set up and tear down. They are also running Pro Tools for clicks and firing the guitar sounds and pedal changes. The monitor set up is really straightforward explains Davies, “They are a no-nonsense rock ‘n’ roll band” and fit onto one page of the PM5D.
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