I read the following article for this weeks blog: http://www.livesound-digital.com/livesound/201108?sub_id=O3qJNluGb6bN&folio=12#pg14
First of all, I would like to start out by asking why? Even if you could, why would you need three consoles for running monitors? I don't care if you're the Queen of England or Jesus, nobody or no band should need more than one console to run monitors for the tour. That's disgusting to see people wasting their money on things like that when they could be taking it and putting it to better use.
On another note, I would love, love, love to be able to get the chance to hear this sound system in person!
Like the author of this article wrote early on, this system is a very gargantuantly large and massive PA system. Having that big of a system must have been a dream(or nightmare, lol!) for Joe O'Herlihy, the front of house engineer and sound designer for this tour and previous U2 tours throughout the last 30 years.
Reading that the tour was planned in only over a duration of a few years, I can only imagine how much time and man power went into the designing, pre-production and final construction of this system. Between lighting design and sound design, this is the most insane show production I have ever read about. Even in comparison to all of the shows I've been to in my young life, the colossal size of this production is almost ridiculous when I think about it sometimes. But it's so ridiculous that I feel the need to want to have a chance to be apart of this production, even after the fact that I don't care for or really enjoy any of U2's music.
The use of the SD7s at front of house is probably one of the best applications I've seen this beast of a console being used in. And I really liked the fact that Joe O'Herlihy still used a lot of analog outboard gear in conjunction with the digital SD7. I imagine that the capabilities of the SD7 in conjunction with some analog technology would produce an amazingly incredible sound, especially hearing it through the immensely huge line array system that was used through the duration of this tour.
Clair definitely had to step it up in order to match the needs of this tour, and it sounds like they pulled it off sevenfold. Being able to provide a system of this size is mind blowingly impressive and definitely gives Clair Global a name to not be underestimated within the live production realm of the industry.
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