TINLEY PARK, IL — Gand Concert Sound (GCS) supported a June 29 music festival staged at the 28,000-capacity First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre here that featured the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bush, Silversun Pickups and other bands. GCS provide a Yamaha CL5 console and NEXO GEO T system for the event, which was sponsored by Last.fm and local radio station Q87.7.
More details from Yamaha (www.yamahacommercialaudiosystems.com):
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL —The First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre is located in Tinley Park, Illinois, forty minutes south of Chicago. Gand Concert Sound (GCS) brought in a NEXO GEO T system along with a Yamaha CL5 digital audio console and a DME 64. Tinley Park is owned by Live Nation, the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre is Chicago’s largest outdoor amphitheater with a capacity of approximately 28,000.
Celebrating over 17 years of music history, the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre typically hosts 25 concerts each summer season. Last.fm, a music service powered entirely by its community of listeners, along with local radio station Q87.7 Piqniq, hosted a 10-act festival at the end of June using Gand Concert Sound (GCS) aka “the NEXO guys” for audio production. Festival line up included the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bush, Silversun Pickups, AWOLNATION, and Atlas Genius.
GCS brought in a NEXO GEO T system along with assorted audio gear including a new Yamaha CL5 digital audio console and DME64 used as part of the front of house mix rig. Main hangs consisted of 21 GEO T 4805s and three GEO T 2815s per side, seven GEO T 4805s and one GEO T 2815s per side used for out fills, along with 24 CD18s, six PS10R2s for front fills, and eight NX 4X4 amps.
Vincent Casamatta, front of house engineer for AWOLNATION said, “I told GCS tech Adam Rosenthal that the GEO T rig was spec’d, implemented and tech’d perfectly. I had a slamming show, one of the best sounding of this year.”
President Gary Gand said, “This will be a record breaking month for GCS. Our investment in NEXO puts us at the top of the call list when the big venues and national acts need pristine audio to the very farthest seat.” Gand was an early adopter of the NEXO GEO T tangent array system and its associated software.
For more information, also visit www.gandconcertsound.com.
