John Fogerty Rockin’ Canada Tour on Adamson

While on his Rockin’ Canada Tour, which started in Prince Edward Island making stops across the country in larger cities such as Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary and ending in Victoria BC,  John Fogerty and tour manager Bob Fogerty chose to enlist the services of Atomic Pro Audio for sound, and East Coast Lighting and Productions Services for lighting and staging needs.



Kevin Margolin owned Atomic Pro Audio, who recently made a very successful jump from a regional to a national production company, sent out Evan McElhinney as Systems Tech for the Rockin’ Tour. Prior to departure, Kevin and Evan worked on the sound design; all stops were mid to large sized arenas the larger ones such as Toronto’s Air Canada Center were sold as a ¼ multilevel venue, the designs were almost identical in every venue with the exception of dropping off a couple of boxes where trim height was an issue.

Evan and Kevin chose to use a flown mains system of 12 Y 18 with two Spektrix W hung below for frontfill, per side. Side hangs for outfill were comprised of eight Y10 with a two Spektrix, two Spektrix W underhang. For low-end, eight T-21 subs as a double stacked tour cart were evenly spread across the front of stage on the floor. Lab Gruppen’s FP 7,000 for LF and subs and FP 10,000Q’s for the Mid’s and Hi’s powered the Adamson system.



Evan and system Tech Clint Boire then fine tuned the PA for every venue using the Shooter design with room and height modifications. They would then spend about an hour on EQ, time alignment and a good walk around, using tools such as SIA Smaartlive 6 for Mac and Audix TR40 analyzer mic. FOH Engineer Felix Brenner let Evan set-up for the most part: “We communicated well and Felix was all about running around with microphones too - how often you have a FOH Engineer who is that cool?"

The only adjustment Evan would make on the next tour is to fly some of the T21 subs and place rest on the floor as he did on the last Linkin Park tour. Even when using less of the high upper levels of the bowl seating than on a full-sized arena tour, Evan felt that the subs were still stronger on the floor and at FOH. Evan explains: “John (Fogerty) and I experimented with different delay times and placements to achieve a very smooth low end.  John is very particular about the technical of things and he walked with me daily to have a listen to what we did. I was extremely pleased with the end result in both coverage and SPL calculations. Shooter made it very easy to predict where to shade boxes” Evan comments.
 


Further information: www.adamsonsystems.com
 

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