The standard cadre of outboard gear - Lexicon 480L and PCM70, Yamaha SPX-1000, Eventide H3500 and TC Electronic 2290 - is also at FOH. “We’ve gone to the P4 rear-fills because we have a little more freedom on where to put them and they cover more than most of the arrays we have available.” Powering the main cabinets are 15 Crest/QSC amp racks seven Carver 2 amps are used for the rear- and front-fills, as well as the subs. is basically the same one we used on the Elevation tour,” explains systems engineer Jo Ravitch. “We have brand-new front-fills and we’ve changed the sub-low configuration slightly for space reasons, but the P.A. Audio, carrying 44 i4 cabinets, 40 i4b subs, 12 Showco Prism Series 1 sub-lows, a number of P4 “Piston Box” rear- and center-fill cabinets and eight FF2 front-fill cabinets. “You plan out the type of tour you’re going to do, the cities you’re going to be in, the type of territories, the worldwide aspect of it and whether it’s going to be an indoor arena tour or an outdoor stadium tour, and then you look at what’s required in the sense of cutting your cloth according to measure,” O’Herlihy reports.Įven while O’Herlihy spent time checking out other systems, the team returned to Clair Bros. Those 18 months were spent investigating and auditioning everything from P.A. ![]() O’Herlihy’s exuberance could be caused by any number of factors, the least of which might be that he’s seeing a world tour kick off after 18 months of planning with U2 band manager Paul McGuinness. Standing behind one of two DiGiCo D5 consoles at FOH, O’Herlihy watches a band whom he’s worked with for 27 years rip through a 21-song set that included some of their best-known past tunes (“The Electric Co.,” “An Cat Dubh,” “New Year’s Day” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday”) and some of their new work - opener “Love and Peace or Else,” “Vertigo,” “Beautiful Day,” “Elevation” and “Miracle Drug.” It’s just two songs into U2’s two-plus-hour show at the HP Pavilion (San Jose, Calif.) in early April and audio director/front-of-house mixer Joe O’Herlihy’s right leg is bouncing along with the music.
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