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Radiohead, In Rainbows, Storms The Globe With L-ACOUSTICS

OXNARD, California – July 2008 — Longtime L-ACOUSTICS user Radiohead has returned to the road this summer in support of its latest album, In Rainbows, which shook up the record industry when it was first made available online last October for basically whatever price fans chose to pay.

After a handful of initial US dates starting in May, followed by a European/UK tour in June and July, the highly innovative and critically acclaimed band now returns to the States for the entire month of August before heading on to Japan for additional performances.

Firehouse Productions of Red Hook, NY, is serving as the sound provider for the US tour legs, with Wigwam Acoustics of Heywood (Manchester), UK, handling the European dates.

The tour’s FOH loudspeaker configuration, designed by Freelance System Engineer and L-ACOUSTICS Certified V-DOSC Engineer Sherif el Barbari, features left and right arrays each comprised of 15 V-DOSC® cabinets with three dV-DOSC hung below for front-fill. These loudspeakers are complemented by two additional arrays of 14 V-DOSC plus three dV-DOSC to address both the far left and right seating areas. For low-end punch, the system features 32 SB28 subwoofer enclosures, all driven by L-ACOUSTICS LA8 amplified controllers.

“With the exception of two shows at Bercy in Paris, all of the concerts are outdoor shows — stadiums, sheds, green fields, or amphitheaters — which make the sound design very challenging,” notes el Barbari. “However, I am impressed by the power of the 32 L-ACOUSTICS SB28 subwoofers driven by LA8. We have also used the SB28 in cardioid configuration on several shows now and the results are impressive.”

Jim Warren, Radiohead’s FOH engineer from day one, adds, “I still sometimes find myself going to switch off my nearfield monitors in an arena show, only to find that they are off already. The clarity and precision of the V-DOSC system continues to surprise me even after 10 years of using them in just about every live sound environment there is.”

L-ACOUSTICS is a leading innovator and manufacturer of high-performance loudspeakers, amplifiers and signal processing devices for touring and installed sound markets. Known around the globe for pioneering and championing the modern line array loudspeaker concept with V-DOSC®, the company has received numerous accolades for its KUDOâ„¢, KIVAâ„¢, ARCS®, XT coaxial loudspeaker systems and SB line of subwoofer enclosures, all powered and processed with the LA4 and LA8 amplified controllers in fulfillment of a “total system approach.” L-ACOUSTICS products for the North American market are manufactured and distributed by L-ACOUSTICS US of Oxnard, California.

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