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Adlib supplies audio and lighting for The Overtone’s Christmas tour

Adlib supplies audio and lighting for The Overtone’s Christmas tour
Adlib supplies audio and lighting for The Overtone’s Christmas tour

Liverpool-based rental and production specialist Adlib supplied lighting, audio production and crew for the festive ‘Christmas with the Overtones’ tour, renewing a long term working relationship with the five-piece harmony group.

 

Adlib’s audio team was led by Mario Leal who was tasked with getting the Coda PA fine-tuned for the band’s FOH sound engineer Mark Clements. Paul Allen was the tour and production manager. The PA was specified by Mark Clements and monitor engineer Cristiano Vuolo, and Mario Leal, together with account handler Dave Jones, all worked together to co-ordinate things.

 

A typical set up was 12 x ViRay left-and-right with three sensor-controlled SCP subs a side on the floor (six in total), together with six TiRay front fills. Mario Leal also covered the balconies with extra Coda C712 loudspeakers in some of the bigger halls, and this approach was especially useful when audiences were sitting behind the PA when the balconies curved all the way round to the sides of stage.

 

The whole system was driven by 20 of Coda’s proprietary Linus 10 amps which were set up and aligned utilising Linus Live software, which gives full networked control over the amps and the arrays, with the EQ and zoning taken care of in Leal’s Lake control rack.

 

Adlib supplied two Avid Profile consoles for the tour, for FOH and monitors. The Overtones used an 8-way Sennheiser SR2000 IEM system from Adlib. There were no side fills, and for atmosphere they added four of Adlib’s new MP5 wedges across the front.

 

Two Adlib MP4 subs were allocated to the drummer and the bassist, with the third shared between the guitarist and keyboardist, who were positioned adjacent to one another onstage. The Overtones’ mics were six (five and a spare) Shure UR4D hand-helds with a Beta 87A mic capsule for Timmy Matley.

 

Lighting designer Neil Holloway has worked for The Overtones for around six years, and on this run collaborated with touring operator and lighting director Tess Minor. Their starting point was the showfile from the last tour from which they took some of the signature looks. They mixed them up with new looks crafted for the show.

 

Tess Minor was working with tech Tom Webber. The decision was made to go with a single back truss and utilise the house rigs for front and key lighting, available at 95% of the shows. Neil Holloway chose fixtures that were multi-purpose.

 

Hung on the back truss were five Martin Mac Viper profiles and six Mac Aura LED washes. They also had two ProLight Solar 36 LED washes, used in conjunction with another two on the floor, to illuminate a series of custom gauze banners at the back created by Back2Front.

 

Another four Vipers were on the deck, and another eight Auras were deployed upstage/downstage stage left and right for low angled side washes. Six Mac Quantum Washes on different height Manfrotto stands were set up in an arc around the back of the set risers.

 

Being a festive tour, there was a load of festoon and six Christmas trees with integral lights positioned in a similar arc to the Quantums on stands. Far upstage, behind the gauze banners, a black wool serge drape was placed.

 

A GrandMA2 light with an onPC as backup were utilised for control. Adlib also supplied the risers, a set of mid-stage steps and all the relevant dressing. Adlib’s lighting account handler was Dave Eldridge.

 

(Photos: Steve Sroka)

 

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Adlib supplies audio and lighting for The Overtone’s Christmas tourAdlib supplies audio and lighting for The Overtone’s Christmas tour

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