BOSTON – Comics Come Home, an annual comedy benefit show that has been staged for 16 years, was presented at the Agannis Arena on Nov. 13, 2010. Rainbow Productions Services / New England Audio Tech of Atkinson, N.H. provided an all-Meyer Sound system for the fund-raising event, which benefits the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care.
This year's edition, hosted once again by Boston-area native Denis Leary, also featured performances by Jim Norton, Pete Correale, Thomas Dale, Lenny Clarke, Joe Yannetty and other guests. The Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care provides comfort, support, and hope to cancer patients during treatments. Rainbow has been providing audio support for the event since its inception.
The primary challenge for Scott Tkachuk, audio designer and touring operations director for Rainbow, was to create the illusion of an intimate comedy club in a reverberant 7,000-seat arena. He worked with Seth Hager, systems tech, deploying dual hangs of 12-each Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers, with three MICA line array loudspeakers per side underhung for down fills. For outfills, the setup included one MILO 120 and five MILO loudspeakers per side, and for frontfills, there were six UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers.
"Vocal intelligibility on the MILOs is second to none," said Tkachuk. "They are in your face right up to the nosebleed seats, so a voice sounds the same 200 feet away as it does in the front VIP seats."
Low-frequency support for Leary's band was courtesy of a dozen 700-HP subwoofers, and the system was tied together by a Galileo loudspeaker management system with dual Galileo 616 processors. On stage, comics and musicians could hear themselves through 18 MJF-212A stage monitors.
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