Alanis Morissette recently undertook a short summer tour in support of her forthcoming album, Havoc And Bright Lights, which is due for release in August.
Her 2012 tour dates – which were interspersed with various festival appearances – included shows in the UK and France where Britannia Row Productions used a substantial Outline GTO system for the main PA. These shows were also some of the first in Europe to showcase two new Outline designs – the GTO-Sub low-frequency element, which was designed specifically for the GTO system, and the GTO-DF down fill 120° element.
The production also used six Outline Mantas 120° down fill elements and six Outline Butterfly CDH-483 hi-packs, all used variously as in fills depending on the venue, and everything was powered by Outline T-11 amplifiers. FOH engineer Maurizio Gennari handled the mix with a DiGiCo SD7 console.
‘I’ve used Outline Butterfly in the past and I was hoping to try the GTO at some point,’ says FOH engineer, Maurizio Gennari. ‘Finally an opportunity came when Britannia Row’s Bryan Grant suggested I take the system for the UK and French dates of the tour. I really liked the system clarity in the mid/high range and also the new subs, which Dave Compton and I tried in different configurations. They were very powerful and precise. I will be happy to use the system again in the future’.
‘Our systems tech on the tour reported great results with the GTO, which really didn’t surprise me because it’s one of the most natural-sounding systems out there at the moment,’ says Britannia Row Productions MD, Bryan Grant.
With her 1995 Jagged Little Pill album shifting more than 33m copies and awards including 16 Junos and seven Grammies (as well as being nominated for two Golden Globes and an Oscar), Morissette’s subsequent album releases have taken her global sales to more than 60m.
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