The venues were a selection of theatres and Wembley Arena in London. Adlib's crew of Ian Nelson and Otto Kroymann worked closely with Keith's own engineers - Dirk Durham (FOH), Bill Collyer (band monitors) and Russell Fischer (Toby Keith monitors) together with their systems tech, Scott Halle.
Durham specified JBL VerTec which he uses when touring in the USA, so Adlib supplied a total of 24 VerTec 4889 speakers with 12 VerTec 4880A subs and 10 x L-Acoustics Kara for front-fills and lip-fills.
For Wembley, they added side-hangs of another 10 VT4889s left & right, plus four additional subs a-side.
The FOH console was a Midas XL4 complete with a substantial array of outboard. These included Drawmer gates and compressors - six channels of DS 501, six channels of DL241 and one DL 441, complete with dbx160a's and 160 SL compressors, plus one ADL 1500 tube compressor.
On the effects side, they included a TC D-TWO delay, a TC M6000 multi effects unit and a Lexicon 960L.
The PA was processed, EQ'd & time aligned using Lake LM26s and an LM44, supplied with a standard Adlib tablet remote for the convenience of being mobile while fine tuning.
Driving the system were Camco Vortex 6 amplifiers on the VT4889s and PLM 20000s for the subs and fills.
The first of two monitor consoles was a Midas H3000. This was used exclusively for Toby Keith's IEM mixes.
The band were on IEM systems too, and were mixed by Bill Collyer using an Avid Profile. Adlib purchased the latest Shure PSM 1000 systems for the tour, together with three Shure P6HW hard-wired IEMs, amounting to 16 IEM mixes in total including spares.
(Jim Evans)
