Led by frontman Lukas Forchammer, Danish band Lukas Graham continues to build on the appeal of their 7 Years album around the various venues of Europe. At FOH, Frank Grønbæk (the band’s engineer since late in 2012) runs the show from behind a DiGiCo S21 mixing console.
‘One of the things I like about mixing this band is that there are relatively few source signals, so you can build space around the sounds rather than cramping things down because you need to hear a lot of things all at once,’ he says. ‘There’s room in there so you can actually have every instrument fill up space, and that’s really nice.’
Key to delivering the mix to audiences of all sizes is a Meyer Sound reinforcement system, supplied by Victory Tour Production of Denmark.
‘When I first heard the band on a Meyer Leo Family system about three years ago, I realised there is a difference between what you can hear on that system and all others available on the Danish market,’ Grønbæk says. ‘Every detail, in every frequency band, was precise and defined. When you added something like 250Hz on EQ, it actually came right out in the mix, instead of being like a smudge.’
To accommodate venues of varying shapes and sizes, the tour is carrying an inventory based around 20 Lyon-M main line array loudspeakers with four Lyon-W wide coverage line array loudspeakers for close field coverage. Bass reinforcement is supplied by 12 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements. Sixteen Leopard compact line array loudspeakers are available for placement, according to venue requirements, as front fill and out fill, with more help as needed from a pair of UPQ-1P loudspeakers. Everything is tied together and optimised by a Galileo Callisto loudspeaker management system with three Galileo Callisto 616 array processors (including an AES version at FOH) and one Galileo 408 processor.
‘What I enjoy about mixing on the Leo Family systems is that what I put into the system is exactly what I get back out,’ Grønbæk says. ‘Everything is clear, across the full frequency spectrum, and I appreciate that in acts like Lukas Graham where the vocal is extremely important. That’s why whenever we play venues that don’t have house systems, I try to get Meyer Sound. It makes a huge difference for me.’
The latest tour leg began in Dublin and will close in April, in Lisbon, having taken in 25 cities in 13 countries.
Victory Tour Production is a full-service provider of event production technologies, including sound reinforcement, video, lighting and staging. In addition to supporting international concert tours, Victory provides services for remote television broadcasts, corporate events and major festivals.
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