International. For their final world tour, as they have dubbed it, heavy metal band Judas Priest is using a Meyer Sound sound system that includes 48 linear arrangement MILO speakers, as well as three other linear array M'elodies and six MJF-212A stage monitors.
The tour equipment, supplied by Major Tom Limited, has accompanied the band on their performances in South America, Mexico, Europe and 35 stops in Canada and the United States. The next presentation is in Japan.
FOH engineer and production manager of the band for more than a decade, Martin Walker, explained that they are using 24 700-HP subwoofers and four 600-HP subwoofers on the tour, about which he indicated that "many subs only move a lot of air and make a lot of noise, but not necessarily a musical noise. These sound very musical and are also powerful."
The FOH package for the tour consists of a DiGiCo SD7 console, a TC Electronic D-Two delay, an Avalon compressor for the lead singer's voice, an Eventide Eclipse Harmonizer and a few Yamaha SPX990 processors.
For the video, the band mixes the MJF-212A monitors into a Yamaha PM5D with the help of an Apogee Big Ben master watch and a wave plug-in pack. In addition, it uses Shure microphones and personal wireless monitoring systems, along with JH Audio in-ear monitors.
