One Direction entrusts the audio system of its 'Where we are' tour to Series J of d&b
British-Irish group One Direction, one of the great musical revelations of recent years, with millions of fans around the world, has used an audio system based on d Series J clusters on its successful tour 'Where we are'&b audiotechnik, Kegistics.
Nobody doubts that One Direction (1D) It's the 'boy band', of the moment. Trained in 2010 in London, the quintet composed by Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson were announced during the broadcast of the contest 'The X Factor' in the United Kingdom.
Since then, His career has been meteoric and followed by millions of fans around the world., filling stadiums on all their tours. In the last of them, called 'Where we are' and with which they have toured Europe and South America this summer, The group has included in its audio system the technology of d&b audiotechnik.
The person responsible for Wigwam Acoustics, company in charge of supplying the equipment for the One Direction tour, Chris Hill, explains that “we select clusters of the J Series d d d&b audiotechnik for various reasons and, mainly, because this type of environment is perfect for the J Series. We knew that the J8 arrangements would deliver superlative performance in any challenge the show presented.. In second place, Its relatively light weight makes it the perfect choice, because the restrictions in this sense had an important role in the final audio design”.
As it is a large-scale stadium tour, one of the problems the Wigwam Acoustics staff had is that they couldn't install the equipment exactly how they wanted. Nick Mooney, systems technician this company, remember that “due to the complexity of the stage and the design of the show, we couldn't hang the J-SUBs. We put all our attention into the placement of the SUBs to create a uniform and complete response in the different stages but, at the same time it was necessary to avoid creating a huge sub-bass hot spot for the audience in the front rows. We achieved this by precisely positioning the J-SUBs and creating a subwoofer array using d's ArrayCalc software.&b”.
Another challenge they had to face was “restricting the number of speakers in each of the main rigs to twenty,” Mooney continues.. Nevertheless, This decision did not compromise its function of uniformly covering the total surface of the stadiums. Everything was as we expected and the J Series system performed exceptionally well in this type of environment. The concerts were packed and, sometimes, The noise levels from the audience were quite shocking”.
In this sense, Mooney points out that in the center of the stadium field the B-stage hydraulic stage traction device was placed about thirty meters from the main stage, “so the kids spent a lot of time in front of the PA system, which is always a challenge for both monitor and FOH engineers”.
In addition to the main J Series arrangements, Wigwam Acoustics technicians used outfills that covered up to about 150° but, due to the large ticket sales for each concert, they had to increase it to 200° or even, sometimes, a 220°, They opted for additional V-Series rigging to provide the necessary precision and spread..
Added to this were two delay towers, located about seventy meters from the front edge of the stage on the stadium field, to offer maximum travel of the tracking guns. “The delays were used to improve the main system in the rear of the field area and the lower seating levels,” says Mooney., in addition to providing coverage at higher levels. We use a mix of J8 and J12 along with some B2 subwoofers. The entire system was controlled through three XTA 448 at FOH and d's R1 remote control software&b audiotechnik”.
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