PROJECT
FILE
Located in the heart of Montreal’s
famous Latin Quarter, the St-Denis
Theatre recently employed a Yamaha
Rivage PM7 digital audio console
for a production of the Broadway-
(L-R) FAME FOH ENGINEER MAXIME LAMBERT, WIRELESS TECH SERGE RODRIGUE & SOUND DESIGNER COLIN GAGNÉ
inspired musical FAME.
The Yamaha PM7, which was supplied by Solotech, was used by FOH engineer Maxime Lambert. “Having the possibility for two
operators on one control surface at the same time is really useful when you have 100-plus inputs to manage,” says Lambert. “Another great
feature of the PM7 is to have the option of choosing the send point of each channel to any mix. It made mixing monitors from front of
house a lot easier.”
For its 2018 of CosmoFEST, an annual concert, music gear
exhibition, and community event, MI superstore Cosmo
Music of Richmond Hill, ON teamed up with Canadian
distributor SFM to deploy an EAW Adaptive sound rein-
forcement system. This year, the CosmoFEST mainstage hosted
performances by Big Wreck, April Wine, Kim Mitchell, Richie
Kotzen, and Bif Naked.
“We wanted the primary concert audience area to have solid,
even coverage while maintaining a more family-friendly volume in
some areas,” explains Cosmo Music’s Professional Services Division
Manager, Ryan McLeod. “This was easily accomplished with the EAW
Adaptive system that was deployed.”
Left-right hangs of eight Anna modules along with eight
Otto subwoofers covered the listening area while four Radius
RSX208L cabinets evenly spaced along the lip of the stage handled
front fill duties.
During the course of hip-hop star Logic’s 33-date North
American Bobby Tarantino vs. Everybody Tour, FOH Engineer
Darcy Khan has dealt with some extreme temperatures, but
says he doesn’t worry about his Digico SD7 console, which
was provided by Thunder Audio Inc.
“It was 114 degrees Fahrenheit (45 Celsius) in Phoenix when
we were there,” recalls Khan. “It was hot, [but] the SD7 has never
gotten above 107 degrees (42C). It’s never overheated, never
had a failure.”
Thunder Audio also assembled a flexible L-Acoustics PA
system comprising K1 and K2 components that can be configured
to fit each stop on the tour.
The eighth annual edition of New York City’s Governors Ball
Music Festival hosted some of the biggest names in music
on its main stage, which featured a substantial Adamson
E-Series loudspeaker system provided by Cleveland, OH’s
Eighth Day Sound. Over three days on Randall’s Island in NYC,
the combined crowd of about 150,000 enjoyed performances from
Jack White, Eminem, Travis Scott, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and others.
The system included main arrays of 17 Adamson E15 three-
way, true line source enclosures atop three E12 three-way, full range
boxes per side. The outfill arrays had eight E15s and three E12s per
side. The company’s E119 subwoofers handled the low end, with
flown left-right arrays of nine cabinets per side and an additional
36 ground stacked at the front of the stage. Eight of Adamson’s
compact S10 two-way, full range enclosures lined the lip of the
stage as front fills, while an additional dozen were deployed for the
single delay tower behind the FOH mix position.
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