Ed Sheeran "Divide" Tour 2018: Sound System Design and FoH sound for his support Jamie Lawson

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mothergrid had the chance to talk to the sound crew of the Ed Sheeran „Divide“ Tour - Charlie Albin (Sound system engineer), David White (Chewie Tech) and Rob Simpson (FoH sound for support Jamie Lawson).
With equipment from Meyer Sound, Allen & Heath, DiGiCo, Optcore and many more:
Equipment list:
72 x LEO
42 x 1100LFC
20 x LINA
08 x Leopard
02 x UPA
56 x Milo
10 x Galaxy
04 x Galileo
01 x SIM3
02 x MJF 212
02 x 900 LFC
04 x Optocore X6R
04 x Optocore V3R
01 x Digico SD7 (Ed Sheeran)
01 x Allen & Heath dLive s3000 (support act Jamie Lawson)
Pic by Ralph Larmann
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@samjimenez8713 4 жыл бұрын

It’s as if they made one of most non complex show as complex as possible. I love it

@Timetofly8888 3 жыл бұрын

"Big" Mick Hugh''s has spent nearly 30yrs making 4 guys into over 56 Channels at FOH, are you really surprised?

@andygm0590 4 жыл бұрын

Damn all that equipment for a guitar and mic lol

@Chiggle8 4 жыл бұрын

Priceless!

@Gibson1976uk 4 жыл бұрын

This is funny!!! they talk like its going to be ACDC onstage? incase anything will go wrong, we can switch to another laptop! he's got a big looper!! he has 1000 units! incase this goes wrong? why do they keep talking about things going wrong??? how many channels goes a damn acoustic player need??? does he have 500 mics on stand-by incase they cut out? and the mention of dealing with a challenge!! yeah!! we all focus on one guy?????? its like setting up an Iron Maiden gig mate! :)

@integer22 4 жыл бұрын

@@Gibson1976uk with a full band there's more stuff to hide behind if anything goes wrong. with one guy and a guitar, if anything goes wrong, everyone notices. therefore makes total sense to have this level of redundancy at every level. their ableton tech says there's 8 channels of RF inputs...so that might be main vocal mic, loop mic, spares for both those, and 4 guitars...not that ridiculous for a stadium show

@johnfearon6115 4 жыл бұрын

1mic 1loop pedal 1acoustic guitar 4 channel mixer

@k1mgy 4 жыл бұрын

@@Gibson1976uk "...why do they keep talking about things going wrong???" Murphy's law.

@mikerush6144 Жыл бұрын

you guys don't get the credit you deserve! Much love for the effort put in to make this video

@mothergrid-magazine Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!!!

@kurtNYC 5 жыл бұрын

That tuner is nuts!

@engineervosti Жыл бұрын

That tuner idea is just 👌. Much love for the effort put into this video production.

@raphaelmishael7045 4 жыл бұрын

My Hobby.. Getting goosebumps seeing all these

@makinenandreas 4 жыл бұрын

Watching this, I realise I don't know a jack shit and all the long Audio-Engenering-programs are really needed.

@Da-Creams 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, there aren’t many videos that go into such detail

@mothergrid-magazine Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@luckysakonta3724 10 ай бұрын

I'm really attracted to this kind of hard work and expertise. Much as the general public is so fond the main artists, my greatest focus and respect goes to the sound design engineering team. Much Love

@greyanaroth Жыл бұрын

Tuner hack took the cake. Well done. Engineering for engineering's sake. Take a bow, guys

@isettech 2 жыл бұрын

Love the modified pedal to send a tone to the console to gate the guitar for mute tuning. Nice job. Will have to build one for my so the artist can mute for tuning.

@staffanlundholm Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't a simple midi pedal for muting together with an always-on tuner have solved that a bit cheaper and simpler?

@ketnaraiteamkenk.thailand.2786 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@jpruhu7662 2 жыл бұрын

The analog tuner solution is fantastic!!

@maxi-g 4 жыл бұрын

this is awsome

@smartboy-re3se Жыл бұрын

Ed shrean is the man. And credit goes to everyone in the behind also..💗 Such a coplex work to give the best music...🥰😍

@jamesmay7184 Жыл бұрын

Amazing how much time, effort and tech goes into shows. How do you plan for audiences being within the stadium with the delay setups and eq etc... assuming they effect that, or is this adjusted on the fly?

@DalontaeDavis 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You

@marcio-si8xd Жыл бұрын

All off this just for one guy, a looper and guitar 😩

@michaellambie8427 Жыл бұрын

Man this is complex . But with a lot of safety. Great job .

@michallysek6996 2 жыл бұрын

@2:00 That tyre on the floor is jealous of those processors sophistication.

@jamesthomas4868 4 жыл бұрын

All of that nice equipment for musical valium.

@gstevens6948 Жыл бұрын

I had no idea what he was talking about but it sure sounded incredibly cool. 🤣

@MrSitemaster2 5 жыл бұрын

To think Ed used to carry all his equipment in his guitar case and rucksack and set it up himself.

@MarcAndre1 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah... not so much any more

@Joeyczhu 4 жыл бұрын

selling cds from the rucksack, aiming for the major

@roryphillips57 4 жыл бұрын

Joey C. Zhu Nation wide till we're just jack

@tonydlc348 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Seems like some company is justifying their use.

@justinm.1 5 жыл бұрын

Even when he explained Ed’s loop station, I still didn’t really get it 😅

@faltaverso 7 ай бұрын

Is a midi controller with an audio interface.

@fabianvasquezjr8852 3 жыл бұрын

So if the looper goes down shows over? Hope they got redundant backups of his board. What a easy job of FOH, only have one vocal and two left right channels from the loop board interface & TB channel.I would fall asleep at the wheel mixing that show!

@fatboyslimdusty 4 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering - if at some point during the set, let's say between songs, Ed strums his guitar and nothing comes out but his vocals are still fine - in the heat of the moment, what's the decision making process that would lead you to hit the 'backup' option and route everything through the backup rack - given that he could have simply pressed the wrong button on his stomp box?

@josephdoran64 4 жыл бұрын

Silence from the guitar isn't what they're talking about when they mention switching between the racks. The back up option is there just incase the laptop crashes, overheats, drops out, CPU gets overloaded, etc. It could manifest as cracks/pops/stutters/slow mo audio/computer locks up. It actually happened when Ed was at Wembley in 2015 and I'm assuming this was the solution they came up with to stop it ever happening again.

@ZipSnipe 4 жыл бұрын

I just wanna know what the tire is used for at 2:08 ?

@m0nk3yl0v3r 17 күн бұрын

Dave is a fucking legend.

@ibec69 2 жыл бұрын

So what does the tire do?

@bpooboi Жыл бұрын

Who produces these people ? Does the label sub contract them through a production company ?

@bustedfender Жыл бұрын

The guitar goes in this one. This one’s for the microphone. These turn it up louder.

@realsynical 4 жыл бұрын

its important for Ed's Ableton tracks to be heard clearly

@suanmungk3678 4 жыл бұрын

the guitar tuner is crazy!!!

@evankeal 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, where theres a will, theres a way I guess, that was quite the workaround.

@fartywood3917 3 жыл бұрын

I understood 100% of this video, who else is with me 🤣😆😂🤦‍♂️

@foodstampz 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@faltaverso 7 ай бұрын

The Chewie II sacrifices 5 twin pedal RC20 to give Ed the same feeling he used to get when he stepped on a Boss RC20XL. By the way, Boss Footswitch is the best. Sadly, Boss has changed to generic small Footswitches in their most recent loop pedal line.

@benardlorrabellanosa Жыл бұрын

Men such a complex set up and its a great set of gear.., I just wonder if Ed Would consider having a back up band with him rather than going solo.. It must be nicer to have that kind of set of gigs rather than all loops and all that but still he did a great job and the crew with the sound engineer

@teweone Жыл бұрын

nice

@cyfenphoenix3830 4 жыл бұрын

so with massive set-up like this which type of speaker system is advisable to use. Active or passive cabinets

@totallypixelated 4 жыл бұрын

Depends on preference. Both have advantages and disadvantages. The Meyer Sound rig in this case is all active speakers. Many shows of this size also tour with passive speakers, for example, d&b.

@cscrignaro 5 жыл бұрын

Unreal

@JoseAngel-iv5eu 4 жыл бұрын

I want to know how many amplifiers has to power the system, how many amps the bass system used to run the low frecuency

@totallypixelated 4 жыл бұрын

Meyer Sound speakers are active speakers, so each speaker box has its own amplifier built in. From 0:30 he goes through all the speakers he is using. You can count from that!

@NiAlfie 4 жыл бұрын

I'm at guitar center, they don't have any of this, even the tire🤷🏿‍♂️

@markquiz2478 5 ай бұрын

whats a starting salary for Audio Systems Engineer?

@dickdeltona 3 жыл бұрын

WOW !!! That's a long way from Altec Lansing A7's and a Shure Vocal Master...hee hee

@bsoundlighting 4 жыл бұрын

10:15 That's really smart, never would of though of that!

@integer22 4 жыл бұрын

yeh that is a ridiculously over engineered solution just so he can have that specific tuner on stage 😂

@gogogord 4 жыл бұрын

@@integer22 Was thinking the same thing! I would never think of it because it's dumb 😆 just ask Ed to use a different tuning solution.

@sebastiancrawford1774 3 жыл бұрын

I understood some of these words.

@halion9 5 жыл бұрын

What happens if the mother to slave alignment goes out of phase?

@bustedfender 4 жыл бұрын

halion9 Drum solo

@josephdoran64 4 жыл бұрын

The software they're using to host the loop station (Mobius looper) has a resync option built in that detects when the drift is greater than a set amount. For example, if the drift is out by 2048 frames, the master (or slave, depending on the setting) will realign itself to bring them back into sync.

@jorgedanielcunha 4 жыл бұрын

and that tire is for? 01:51

@Steyreon 4 жыл бұрын

I only understood Ed Sheeran.

@ckom0007 4 жыл бұрын

I need to borrow this system to tune-up some neighbours who give me grief for playn’ my old Sabbath records when I get back from the bar Tuesday nights-well...Wednesday morning really.

@keltiquewood Жыл бұрын

Take a shot every time he says 'eh'!

@Wasaia Жыл бұрын

I think my brain is cooking now 🙂

@avebac1 4 жыл бұрын

Any behringer gear there?

@ZackAngelMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Probably in their trash can after it exploded.

@MrTingrag 2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@yonut7 Жыл бұрын

The sound system :)

@rjjrdq 2 жыл бұрын

but is it live?

@Cargo_Bay 2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@amthanhuctri8645 4 жыл бұрын

Víp quá

@Vintaronica 10 ай бұрын

5:20 about the wedge level, yeah it’s important that the wedge level is dropped significantly, you certainly don’t want a failure mid wedge, it really doesn’t inspire confidence otherwise.😅😅😅😅😅😅

@andrewgoulson 4 жыл бұрын

Wait. What is the digico for if he is mixing on an allen and heath?

@billi-gert-rick 4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Goulson The A&H is for the Support.

@andrewgoulson 4 жыл бұрын

Billi Gert Rick sorry. New to large live sound situations. Do you mean backup?

@BareTruls 4 жыл бұрын

@@andrewgoulson Its for the supporting act. Warmup band maybe?

@Firby007 4 жыл бұрын

@@andrewgoulson like the others said, fo the opening act. fun fact the digico you are seing there has 2 working redundant machines inside. if one fails the other one will take on without any dropout. one of the most capable and expensive console for live music there is.

@RIKOARIshowreel 4 жыл бұрын

The guy in front of A&H introduced as Jamie Lawson's FOH engineer. Pretty sure that it was for Jamie Lawson, probably opening act for Ed.

@Rickky007 3 жыл бұрын

So is the mixer analog & power by class ab amplifiers 😬

@alexsauber 5 жыл бұрын

i am confused, what the hell does that rim aside the racks at 1:43 :))

@jimmykerr87 5 жыл бұрын

Do you mean the tyre? It's actually there for when the video screens are lowered so not to damage the screen :)

@TempoDrift1480 4 жыл бұрын

You seem to be confused on what a rim is too.

@fabianz6258 4 жыл бұрын

And all that for some standing zombies that watch the show through their phone and couldn’t tell if I did the engineering or not 😂😂😂

@66fitton 5 ай бұрын

You're supposed to show a bit of the final result when the act is on stage lol.

@Mattyboy88979 2 жыл бұрын

i dont know how them small line arrays are even nearly enough to fill that stadium

@paulvolzone6772 Жыл бұрын

Must have never heard the Leos

@marcustoney7762 Жыл бұрын

42 dual subwoofers🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️ wow

@reasonone11 4 жыл бұрын

Geordi laforge would be proud.

@billyfouronesix 3 жыл бұрын

Was that first guy getting paid to say "uh"?

@michaelemiyah7595 4 жыл бұрын

Can someone explain all this to me. I'm lost. Sound engineering or computer programming 😂😂😂

@henrikortiz9751 4 жыл бұрын

This guy favorite word is ( uhmm ) 😂

@Murhulaem 4 жыл бұрын

😂 😂 😂

@paulmuwadeeb2161 2 жыл бұрын

Can anyone translate this to English?

@missmymountain 4 жыл бұрын

You're not going to have me sit here and believe that Chewie couldn't put a tuner into that floor monster.

@Firby007 4 жыл бұрын

Like he said, he wanted that tuner and if you are Ed Sheeran you probably have the money to get that integrated. Considering that the boss chromatic tuner was probably his first ever bought pedal, i can understand why he wanted to keep it. So it's not about the ability to put a tuner in that custom looper, rather a choice of preference :)

@missmymountain 4 жыл бұрын

@@Firby007 Just a little joke. I shared a laugh with the guys from M 1 about the tuner.

@brainstormingredligh Жыл бұрын

Oh my god looking at this you think you'd be at a Jackson concert we understand if it was his gigs but this is Ed Sheeran it's crazy we mean we Love Ed Sheeran to but this is nuts

@sd8213 3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh

@chancelorharbin4058 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t get past the “ummmms” lol

@mihoocg7410 5 жыл бұрын

he reminds me a lot of Freddy mercury.

@tombielby3497 5 жыл бұрын

Wahahahah wait til I see Charlie 😂

@rockybutler 2 жыл бұрын

That ticket money has gotta go somewhere…

@benjianstey4661 4 жыл бұрын

All that for a tuner...

@NadeejaMatharaarachchi 3 жыл бұрын

😈

@ZVIXVY 4 жыл бұрын

say uh or uhm one more time

@jaagrutiniranjan8924 4 жыл бұрын

It's a 7 minute video minus the 'Aah-Mm'

@josealfredfernandes 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@tempest2109 4 жыл бұрын

What is the cost of all that ??

@shaunsiriweera120 3 жыл бұрын

Probably around $12 million for the audio system alone. Let alone the video gear, screens etc. Double that for a rough estimate, and its still conservative

@tempest2109 3 жыл бұрын

@@shaunsiriweera120 That's a lot 😅

@jaysgood10 Жыл бұрын

Would not work without that tire.

@alhambra792 4 жыл бұрын

If u covered his eyes u wud thought it was Christian Bale

@bradburkehanes 4 жыл бұрын

What’s still real and what isn’t? Once you start playing these vast arena’s, I guess you need all the help you can get from this kinda equipment to sound your best.

@chrisofnottingham 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing is real the moment you use a mic. most of the fancy EQ and compression is there to overcome the vagaries of how mic.s respond to vocals and how stadiums venues respond to unnaturally loud noises.

@BukezFinezt Жыл бұрын

uuh

@guitarplayer5932 8 ай бұрын

easiest sound engineer gig ever

@Dug6666666 4 жыл бұрын

The most un rock and roll explanation of a sound system I have ever heard. Probably sound ok though.

@grupaboemiofficial 3 жыл бұрын

Does he look like Freddie Mercury...or its just me?

@Dannys.channel Жыл бұрын

Weird. Why do they need so much stuff

@asilva_media 2 жыл бұрын

bruh i would just use a midas hd96 and that’s it with the line arrays and subs tho, and i’ve found a discord call works well for coms

@Carriey970 4 жыл бұрын

pretty sure most of the buttons are useless....

@themhb 4 ай бұрын

No it's not every single button is important

@HunterMSmithHQ 4 ай бұрын

Genius

@shatteredsquare 4 жыл бұрын

Holy fuck, WHY???

@CB-pt2uo Жыл бұрын

Is this English 😂👍

@kevindalferth1906 4 жыл бұрын

who removed this dudes lips in color grading??? shame :-)

@TempoDrift1480 4 жыл бұрын

All this shit for that dude?

@Cargo_Bay 2 жыл бұрын

Yes ?

@kristopherdetar4346 Жыл бұрын

Might as well be speaking a foreign language. None of this information makes any sense to me. You need to be an audio engineer to appreciate any of this video.

@remychadwick2467 4 жыл бұрын

15mns of gibberish lol

@paulthesoundguy1 4 жыл бұрын

RUMA that’s because your not aware of what a real sound system consists of To me he spoke a special language

@remychadwick2467 4 жыл бұрын

@@paulthesoundguy1 Sure. It's just ironic to see these dudes talk about these things in a way that's completely incomprehensible and inaccessible when the heart of the project is a dude plugging a guitar into a looper and singing

@joeambly6807 4 жыл бұрын

@@remychadwick2467 Just because you dont know anything about large format live sound rigs doesnt mean they are "incomprehensible", you just need to learn more.