A series of UK dates saw Bryan Adams play a series of outdoor gigs as part of his ongoing Get Up Tour. The shows were promoted by LCC Live, who worked with Warehouse Sound Services and production manager Mike Kerr to provide the substantial Adamson sound reinforcement system for the dates.
Adams’ latest studio album, Get Up, was produced by ELO front man Jeff Lynne, and features nine new songs and four acoustic versions, highlighting Adams’ voice and depth. The tour featured a full complement of Adamson E and S Series loudspeakers. The large outdoor shows utilised LR hangs of 9 E15 line array enclosures per side with four S10 under hangs per side. A further 16 S10s we’re used on delay towers or as side hangs depending on the venue together with 16 E119 subs, all powered by Lab.gruppen 20K44 amplifiers.
Systems engineers Douglas Martin, Aidan Thomson, and Graeme Brown from The Warehouse created the system design and worked with Bryan Adams’ audio team to deliver a consistent great sound over the four nights.
‘Last summer we did a series of similar shows using another brand of loudspeaker system that Bryan would normally use,’ says Aidan Thomson of The Warehouse. ‘We decided to pitch the idea of using Adamson E15 and S10 as we felt this would give much better results due to the flexible scalability of these systems together with great easy of rigging, cutting down rig times.
‘One great advantage with these systems is that they use the same HF drivers which are aligned when the S10 loudspeakers are flown beneath the E15s, giving a seamless transition between systems. We had great comments about the system and in particular about how well the E119 subs performed – which blew everyone away given we only deployed 16 of these in total.’
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