London’s Capital Sound fielded an Outline PA system with Newton FPGA processing for the non-arena dates on Stereophonics’ Kind tour of Europe early in 2020.
The Welsh rockers made stops in Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Italy, taking in a variety of venues with Capital Sound’s Outline inventory including 28 Superfly array enclosures for the main system plus 12 Mantas 28 cabinets for side hangs, six LIPF-082 stage lip-fill speakers and 12 GTO-Sub subwoofers. System control was from a single Outline Newton FPGA processor.
The band’s long-serving sound engineer Dave Roden was at FOH with Capital Sound’s Nick Boulton serving as Systems Tech: ‘Nick and I have found Superfly to be an exceptionally good sounding and flexible cabinet,’ Roden says. ‘It has a very flat, consistent response which reacts very well to EQ and copes easily with a wide dynamic range of programme material. The low box weight and fly-ware also means we can hang a sufficiently high number of cabinets fromthe smallest to the largest of venues, whether clubs, theatres or arenas.’
‘Some of the results have been truly stunning and all in all. I look forward to using Outline products again in the future…’
‘I was very impressed with the musicality of the Superfly,’ Boulton adds. ‘In terms of tonality, it’s very smooth and hi-fi and allows you to get very even coverage with smooth transitions between hangs. Also, Outline have done a great job with the prediction software, which allowed me to verify my designs before putting them into practice. There aren’t many user-friendly 3D bits of design software out there, but they’ve managed to create one.
‘The other key part of the system for me was the Newton processor. It’s an extremely powerful tool and my life would have been a lot harder without it.’
