Meyer Sound LEO sonicated Shania Twain

Shania Twain takes in 59 towns with Meyer Sound LEO departure from tour life.

On their first tour after more than 10 years Shania Twain says goodbye to her concert fans. In the big “A-Level” arenas that they visited on the tour, a Meyer Sound LEO linear sound system for large applications is used. VER Tour Sound provides a complete audio, video and lighting for the five-month “Rock This Country” tour, which makes in 59 cities halt.

The man behind Shania concert sound is the longtime FOH engineer Nigel Green, who mixes all live shows and concert DVD soundtracks singer since 1998th After having worked most of his career as a studio engineer and has worked with artists such as Def Leppard and Britney Spears, Billy Ocean and the Backstreet Boys to Green has chosen a LEO system to transition from a controlled studio environment to giant sports arenas to create as smoothly.

“One of the hardest things for me, coming so from the studio world, was the recognizable horn sound with midrange coloration that many PAs have,” says Green. “With LEO I get a much smoother, clean and less colored sound, and the system behaves much more musical.”

The Shania Twain Tour provides for the radiation, the range and the gain before feedback systems, a number of difficult challenges. The spectator area covers 270 degrees and there are no in-house delays the venues used. Shania Twain moves also on a long Cat Walk before the Main array and makes on a carriage tour the audience about it even floats later on a saddle.

270 degree viewing area

“On previous trips, I noticed that some of these larger arenas muffled sounded in the back corners, but with LEO the radiation is very evenly,” says Green. “Although Shania on her saddle flies directly in front of the array, we run a separate language matrix by the Galileo Callisto Processors, thanks to which we can EQen each box individually, it passes this -. Without self-powered systems that would hardly be possible”

The system consists of Main arrays of 14 LEO-M and four LYON-W Wide-coverage line array loudspeakers, which are supplemented by 24 1100 LFC low-frequency control element. The Mid-Side arrays features enabled eight LEO-M and six LYON-M Main line array loudspeakers, the arrays on the back each comprise 12 LYON-W speakers. Eight MINA line array loudspeakers are used as front fill, two UPA-1P loudspeakers take the Rear Fill and a Galileo loudspeaker management system with Callisto 10 Callisto Galileo 616 and two Galileo Callisto 616 AES Array Processors controls and optimizes the system.

The longtime tour production manager John “Bugzee” Hougdahl pleased with the low profile stage of the LEO system. “I especially appreciate the small footprint of the LEO” he notes. “We are large racks for automation, video and lighting on each side of the stage, as it would be really unhelpful, even having to accommodate additional amplifier racks.”

Avid VENUE D-Show in use

Green mixed Twain on an Avid VENUE D-Show digital console, which is loaded with native, Waves and Crane Song Plug-Ins. Twain sings individually painted Sennheiser SKM 5300 wireless microphones; the wired microphones are from Shure, Sennheiser, Royer and Earthworks. System Engineer and Crew Chief is Kenny Sellars, Monitor Tech is Connie remote power.

While Twain over a decade was when not on tour, they played as part of their “Still the One” production in The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 2012 to 2014 more than 105 shows over the purpose upgraded Meyer Sound system originally for Celine Dion’s “A New Day …” was installed.