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XTA & R.G. Jones - A "Match made in Heaven" on the Road to Hell!
XTA digital loudspeaker processing is integral to Chris Rea’s current tour promoting his critically acclaimed new album, Dancing Down The Stony Road, with South London PA rental company R G Jones. “The combination of the system, the XTA processing and Neumann KMS105 vocal microphones with Chris’s voice is a match made in heaven,” says FOH engineer Simon Honywill.
The tour is the first for R G Jones since it became the UK member of the Synco Europe Network and took delivery of a Renkus-Heinz Synco Touring System. The system is controlled by two XTA DP226 and one DP224 loudspeaker controllers, under the command of XTA AudioCore software on a laptop PC at the front of house control position.
The band comprises Chris Rea on vocals and guitar, guitarist Robert Ahwai, bassist Sylvin Marc, drummer Kirt Rust and accordionist Ed Hession.
Honywill continues: “The drive rack has two DP226 and one DP224. The first DP226 deals with flown PA and the second the ground stack PA. The DP224 is used to time-align the front fills. Because we rarely fly the same array configuration twice - we really tailor the rig to the room, especially in Europe where venues range from 500 people in a club to 5,000 seat arenas - we have to be flexible by reconfiguring the units as necessary.
The DP226s are used for all the system EQ and time alignment. The system runs remotely from front of house using RS485, meaning that all the analogue cable runs were kept short.
“I really like the RS485’s capability and it’s perfectly capable of running long distances – we did a show last summer where we used a kilometer’s-worth around the site.
I particularly like the display interface and the AudioCore software; it’s very user-friendly and compact. Plus it means that we can easily zero the system EQ and time alignment at each venue to start again fresh each time.”
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