ON THE ROAD: AC/DC
Below: Paul ‘Pab’ Boothroyd with the Midas Pro 6 and Pro 40. Bottom: One side of the EV X-Array hang... and the EV P3000 amplifiers, sharing rack space with XTA processors.
to feedback and ideas. That’s a process that still when reverting back to analogue. “Yeah, that’s parametrics to slice out the sensitive frequencies
goes on today and what’s always been good the one thing you forget about because you and avoid a blaze of feedback.
about Midas. become accustomed to having everything “I’ve then got a Summit TLA-100 tube
The Pro series was born in the late 1970s and available to you within a digital desk, so levelling amplifier that helps to punch Brian’s
as brand development manager Richard ‘Fez’ suddenly you have all these racks!” said Pab. vocal in the front of the mix.”
Ferriday explained, it started out as a frame “I’ve got my trusty Drawmer
whose number of modules determined whether DS 201 noise gates, dbx 160SL
“The Pro 40 feels like an old pair of
the console was, for example, a Pro 2, 4 or 40. compressor/limiters on bass and
“Users would mix and match modules from BVs, and my ‘secret weapon’ slippers that you haven’t worn for years...”
different consoles to fit the application, which from Radial — the Phazer Bank
FOH engineer Pab Boothroyd
is why there are a couple of Pro 2 modules in which gives me the ability to
Pab’s Pro 40,” said Fez. phase in line two devices to
“It’s interesting that, while it’s digital, the Pro make them sound like a single source. Here, How does the ‘classic Midas EQ’ compare
6 also follows this modular pattern, so what the I’m using it to combine the two channels of the between the Pro 40 and the digital Pro 6?
guys are using here is a mixture of Pro 6 control guitars because we’re running iso cabinets. “When you do a simple microphone check,
and processing, and XL8 I/O to create the “I’ve also got a couple of George there’s very little difference. The real contrast is
desired audio system for AC/DC. Using the XL8 Massenburg GML-8200 five-band stereo noticed when you sum a lot of inputs together
mic splitters has the extra benefit that we can parametric EQs. I was worried about Brian and it’s the final master buss out where there’s
supply audio to all four consoles simultaneously. coming out on the runway and singing in front likely to be a big change. But with the Pro 6,
“Whilst there’s a quarter of a century of the PA which is always a problem. that wasn’t as noticeable.
between the two consoles there are so many “Brian’s a very distinctive vocalist but he’s “They’ve maintained that character of sound
similarities from user and audio perspectives.” not one to bend the VU needles, so I need to that comes out of the main buss. It’s very
Naturally, outboard cannot be foresaken be careful when he’s out there and I use those smooth; the high frequencies are more precise
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