Wrapping up a recent tour of Canada with ‘melodic punk rockers’ Billy Talent, Delicate Productions assessed the performance of its Martin Audio MLA system: ‘The MLA is a fabulous system, super easy to fly and extremely powerful,’ says audio crew chief, Al Woods. ‘It sounds great and amazingly even throughout the venue. We get so used to other systems tailing off in bigger venues, but this fella’ never ceased to surprise.’
The main PA comprised 14 Martin Audio MLA cabinets and one MLD (down fill) flown on each side of the stage, with 12 W8LC per side for left and right side PA, 12 MLX subs floor-stacked and eight W8LM cabinets along the downstage edge for in fill/out fill. Martin Audio MA 4.2 amplifiers were used to power the side and in fill/out fill systems.
Alongside woods, the crew for the show included Bob Strakele (FOH engineer) and Matt Blakely (Production manager/monitor engineer) from the band, Kenny Kaiser (MLA tech) from Delicate and Luke Purchase (FOH/monitor tech) from Metal Works. Opening acts for the tour included Sum41, Hollerado and Indian Handcrafts while the band, Metal Works and Delicate maintained a positive collaboration for what proved to be very successful tour.
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