JANDS Archive

Production Services & Manufacturing

Category: Concerts

  • Steely Dan Live with Vertec

    Steely Dan

    Writing in Audio Technology magazine Mark Davie interviews the team responsible for Steely Dan’s audio on their Australian tour.

    Tour Dates: September 8 – 24, 2008
    Excerpt:
    “Steely Dan has probably played through more PAs than any other band. Well, maybe that should read been played. Walter Becker and Donald Fagens back catalogue can be heard echoing in empty concert halls and arenas across the globe Steely Dan has for some time been the discerning engineer’s recording artists of choice for tuning PAs. Given a Steely Dan gig is a rare occasion, even rarer in Australia it’s sometimes difficult to imagine Steely Dan the band coming out of the PA, and not just Steely Dan the CD. Sure enough, Walter and Donald have entrusted their live sound to one man and he’s known simply as JR.”

    Download / read the complete article. [PDF – 564KB]

  • Bob Dylan 2007

    Bob Dylan continued his Never Ending Tour which began in the late 1980s with dates in Australia and New Zealand in August 2007.

    The tour, his first trip down under in more than four years, included five Australian and three New Zealand shows and followed the release of Dylan’s 32nd album, Modern Times.

    The Australian run of dates included the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on August 13, Sydney Entertainment Centre on August 15, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on August 17, Adelaide Entertainment Centre on August 21 and the Burswood Dome in Perth on August 23.

    Dylan’s tour follows a string of North American dates in June and July and performances earlier this year in Europe, where the legendary folk and rock songwriter has drawn on his rich back catalogue and new material.

    Dates August 13 – 23, 2007
    Audio Crew Colin Burrell, Scott Barry, Peter O’Leary
    Speaker System L-Acoustics
    24 x V-Dosc Element
    6 x DV-Dosc Element
    16 x Kudo Cabinets
    8 x ARCS
    8 x Wayloud Sub Low Cabinets
    32 x Lab Gruppen 4000 Amplifiers
    12 x Crown V2500 Amplifiers
    FOH Control System
    1 x Digico DS 112
    6 x Dolby Lake Contour
    1 x IBM PC Tablet wireless system
    2 x Focusrite 422 pre-amp
    1 x Waves Max
    1 x TC 4000
    Monitor Control System
    1 x Midas H3000 44+4 console
    TC EQ Station 16ch system
    Wayloud and Nexo wedges
    Crown Amplifiers
    1 x Clair ML 18 Sub Bass
    L-Acoustics ARCS and DV Sub Sidefill

  • Live Earth

    Live Earth took place on Saturday July 7 in Sydney with a monumental line-up
    of Australian talent including Crowded House, Missy Higgins, Eskimo Joe,
    Wolfmother and more at Aussie Stadium, Moore Park.
    Live Earth

    Date July 7 2007
    Sound crew
      Michael Waters
      Paul Schofield
      Nick Giameos
      Garry Hall
      Matt Debien
      Dean Lovell
      John Blois
      Richard Vass
      Randell Casey
      Adam Williams
    FOH Speaker System
      54 x JBL Vertec 4889 Enclousers
      24 x JBL Vertec 4888 Enclousers
      48 x JPS JBL Loaded 18″ subwoofers
    Amplifiers 60 x Crown MA5002VZ Amplifiers
    FOH Drive system
      4 x Dolby Lake DLP4D12 Processors
      4 x BSS Omni Drive FDS-366
      1 x Gateway Motion 1200 Tablet PC
      1 x Motion 1200 Docking Station
      1 x Cisco 350 Wireless Access Point
      1 x Midas XL-88 Mixer
    FOH Control System
      1 x Digi-Design D-Show Venue 96Ch Console System
      1 x Yamaha PM-5D RH Console
      4 x DBX-566 Compressors
      2 x Eventide H-3000 SE Harmonisers
      2 x TC-M5000 reverbs
      2 x TC-Electronics D-Two Delay
      2 x L-Acoustics 108P Near Field Monitors
    Monitor System
      2 x Yamaha PM5D-RH Digital Console
      24 x Clair Bros 12AM Wedges
      5 x Dolby Lake CDLP Processors
      8 x Shure PSM700 Receivers
      8 x Shure PSM700 Transmitters
      4 x Sennheiser EW-300 IEM G2 Systems
      8 x L-Acoustics Arcs
      4 x L-Acoustics dV-Subs
    Microphones
      10 x Shure UHF MA Radio Mic systems
      6 x Shure UHF MA Hand Held Mics
      4 x Shure SM 81
      4 x KSM 32’s
      3 x Shure SM 91’s
      10 x Shure SM 98’s
      12 x Shure SM 57’s
      17 x Shure SM 58’s
      4 x Shure Beta 52A’s
      4 x Shure Beta 56A’s
      3 x Beyer M-88’s
      20 x Countryman Type 85 DI’s

  • Human Nature – Dancing In The Street

    In a new production, directed by Dein Perry of Tap Dog fame, Human Nature performed in the round on their 2007 tour.
    Human Nature 2007

    Photo – Josh Neufeld

    Tour dates June 22 – July 7 2007
    System Designer Pat Richardson
    FOH Engineer David Rudder
    Monitor Engineer Phil Kesby
    Audio Crew Brendan Keane, Simon Farrel, Matt Owsnett
    Speaker System L-Acoustics VDOSC system
      30 x V-Dosc Elements
      36 x dV-Dosc Elements
      12 x SB-218 Subs
    Amplifiers 48 x Crown MA-5002-VZ Amplifiers
    Monitor System
      10 x Clair 12AM Monitor Speaker
      2 x Dolby Lake CDLP Processors
      11 x Shure PSM600 Personal Monitor Systems
      10 x Shure PSM700 Personal Monitor Systems
    Consoles and control
    F.O.H. 1 x Midas H3000 Heritage Console
      7 x BSS 402 Compressors
      1 x DBX 160 SL Compressor
      2 x Drawmer DS201 Noise Gates
      1 x Lexicon PCM90 Reverb
      1 x Eventide H-3000 SE Harmoniser
      1 x TC-Electronics D-Two Delay
      1 x KT 728 Delay
      3 x Yamaha SPX 990 Multi effects units
      1 x KT 728 Delay
      2 x L-Acoustics 108P Near Field Monitors
    Monitor 1 x Yamaha PM5D-RH
    Radio Mics
      16ch Shure U-Series Radio mic

  • Robbie Williams 2006

    Johnston Audio supplied the bulk of the audio equipment for the Robbie Williams stadium tour of Australia. The tour was a huge success – 9 sellout shows to more than 400,000 people!

    The JAS system and crew delivered everything and more! The preparation and presentation of the system received many favourable comments and Robbie’s FOH engineer Dave Bracey said that the system was fantastic.

    Johnston Audio supplied 54 L-Acoustics VDosc cabinets traveling on dollies of 4 to make the setup and pack-down faster. The two front inner hangs had 15 VDosc/side (specially painted cabinets supplied by Britannia Row) and the front outer hangs had 12-15 VDosc / side. There were 2 delay towers of each with 12 VDosc.

    The VDosc cabinets were powered by Camco Vortex 6 amplifiers.

    The Robbie Williams tour necessitated the design and construction of a flying version of the Wayloud subs. Similar to the L-Acoustics 218, 24 flying-version Wayloud Subs were built for the tour and flown in a vertical hang alongside the outer VDosc arrays. Another 24 Wayloud subs were positioned in stacks of 6 across the front of the stage.

    The system design also had 18 L-Acoustics ARCS boxes in pods of 3 across the front edges of the stage.

    The whole system was controlled by 16 Dolby Lake controllers and a barrage of computers supplied by Britannia Row.

    Sheriff L Babari was the system designer and toured with Robbie Williams.

    Dates

    30 November 2006
    December 1, 5, 9-10, 13-14, 17-18 2006

    Johnston Audio Crew List

    Robert “Jock” Bain – Crew Chief & Delays
    Doug Pringle – VDosc system rigger
    Peter O’Leary – VDosc system rigger
    Connor Dune – Monitor rigger / operator

    System

    54 L-Acoustics VDosc
    48 Wayloud subs
    18 L-Acoustics ARCS
    16 x Wayloud wedges
    12 x Crown 24×6 amplifiers
    1 x DiGiCo D5 112 EX console
    8 x Camco Vortex 6 Amplifiers
    18 x Crown VZ 5000 Amplifiers

  • Oasis 2006

    The Oasis Australian tour saw Bruce Johnston finally make it home after almost a year of touring. The Oasis juggernaut is an amazing phenomenon, with the band pulling enormous crowds throughout Europe and the Americas, with a huge resurgence in their popularity.

    The Oasis shows sounded amazing, with 32 Nexo Geo-T elements and 16 Nexo CD18 subs powered by Camco Vortex 6 amps.

    Bruce operated on his DiGiCo D5 console, while former Aussie Ian Newton operated the monitor rig from a Yamaha PM1D console.

    The Oasis Australian tour was sadly the last tour for Johnston Audio by Drew Menard, who has moved on to look after the DiGiCo brand for Group Technology. Other Johnston Audio crew on the Oasis tour were Ivan Ordenes, who rigged the FOH and Mark Crawley who rigged the monitors.

    Dates

    December 14-16 2006

  • Simple Minds w/ DiGiCo 2006

    JAS supplied DiGiCo D1 FOH and Monitor package for Simple Minds Asian and Australian tour.

    Simple Minds’ Production Manager John Armstrong called to say that they were finding it hard to get the consoles for the Asian leg of their tour and fortunately JAS was able to supply a package including 2 x DiGiCo D1 consoles, 2 x Local racks, 1 x Stage Rack, 1 x return system and 1 x FOH FX system was dispatched to Hong Kong.

    JAS also provided a V-Dosc PA system for the Simple Minds’ Palais Theatre show in Melbourne. The system included 18 V-Dosc elements and 16 Wayloud dual 18’ subs powered by Camco Vortex 6 amplifiers controlled by 3 Lake Contour processors.

    Jock Bain was the CVE, Doug Pringle looked after FOH and Adrian Barnard rigged the Nexo PS15 monitor system.

    Dates

    May 3, 7, 9, 12 2006

  • Veronica’s tour 2006

    Dates

    April 13, 15-16, 18-19, 21-24 2006

    System

    24 x Nexo Geo T 2405 line array
    6 x Nexo Geo T 2815 line array
    18 x Nexo Geo S line array
    16 x Nexo C-D sub
    Camco Vortex 6 Amplifiers
    Nexo NX241 / Lake contour controllers

    Consoles

    Midas XL4 FOH
    Midas H3000

    Monitors

    Wayloud monitor system

    JAS crew

    Bruce Johnston – FOH engineer / Production manager
    David Quigley – System technician
    Saul Skoutarides – Monitor operator
    Craig Gordon – monitor rigger

  • Kanye West 2006

    Producer/rapper Kanye West performing before sold-out crowds in Australia. West was scheduled to open for U2 on their Vertigo tour of Australia, but after the Irish rockers postponed those dates West decided to proceed with the shows on his own.
    Kayne West 2006

    Tour dates 20 March – 2 April 2006
    System Engineer Paul Schofield
    Audio Crew Tristan Johnson, Mark Wilson
    Speaker System L-Acoustics VDOSC system
    18 x V-Dosc Elements
    6 x dV-Dosc Elements
    20 x SB-218 Subs
    24 x L-Acoustics Arcs
    44 x Crown MA-5002-VZ Amplifiers
    Consoles
    F.O.H. Midas H-3000 Console
    Monitor 1 x Yamaha PM-5D-RH Digital Console

  • Elvis Costello 2006

    Dates

    January 18, 20, 22, 24, 25 2006