May 1, 2004 12:00 PM, By Steve Jennings

Rod Stewart's new tour has the rock star-turned-crooner singing his favorite hits from It Had to Be You and As Time Goes By. Front-of-house engineer Lars Brogaard took a few minutes to talk about the show.

“Sound Image is providing sound for the tour. We're using Meyer Sound's new Milo system with 60 Milo line arrays, 20 M3D subs and 11 UPA-1Ps, usually with 16 Milo boxes flown per side for the mains and 12 Milos per side flown for the side hangs. We also fly six M3D subs per side and have eight more M3D subs on the floor. Front-fills are all Meyer UPA-1Ps. The system sounds fantastic with superb vocal clarity, and has performed consistently well in the diverse venues we've played. Milo has swift, straightforward rigging, and we can have the entire system down and in the truck a half-an-hour after the show.

“We have one DiGiCo D5 at FOH and two at monitors: one for the singers, the other for the band. I've been using the D5 since they were launched. In fact, I have the first one ever made at FOH. The first half of the show is an assortment of Rod's old hits, and then we have a set and band change to accommodate songs from The Great American Songbook albums. During the interval, we must reset the entire console to deal with a different drum kit, 8-piece string section, upright bass and so on. The D5 does this in a single button-press, resetting everything from input channels, gates and comps to onboard effects and routing.

“We're using the new AKG WMS4000 on all vocals and wireless instruments. In-ears are AKG SST-1. We are beta testing the new TC Electronic EQ Station and MotorFader, using it for system EQ. This is a great unit, and you'll soon be seeing a lot of them.”

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