Bring Me The Horizon Hits the Road with Eighth Day Sound

United Kingdom (May 23, 2023)—UK metalcore act Bring Me The Horizon has had a busy post-pandemic touring schedule. After a string of UK summer time competition dates final yr, the band tore by means of the U.S. and Australia earlier than hitting 18 European cities this spring, and there are nonetheless a bunch of 2023 competition appearances forward for the group. Supporting the band by means of all that has been the UK arm of Eighth Day Sound beneath Clair Global Group.

The band’s longtime FOH Engineer, Jared Daly, has been utilizing an Allen & Heath dLive S5000 with a compact dLive MixRack and a DX32 Expander nightly. “The band spends an incredible period of time curating their dwell exhibits,” he mentioned. “The stage of element that goes into each side of their manufacturing is extra detailed than every other artists I’ve ever labored with…. From the second we began to work with [Eighth Day Sound, it has been fantastic. The system on stage is fairly complex and given the amount of MIDI distribution and Optocore pathways we need, [Eighth Day’s] Stuart Wright labored with us from the very starting to grasp our actual necessities and streamline our bundle as a lot as potential. Everything got here out of the store ‘present prepared’. There had been no tweaks required throughout manufacturing rehearsal, and the crew on tour with us has been unbelievable. The assist and information from Eighth Day’s tech division have been invaluable.”

This tour is the band’s first with out an analog break up; as an alternative, Daly pulls inputs from the stage Optocore community to attenuate the SL rack footprint and to simplify the road system: “I’ve been a dLive person for years, spanning from my time mixing screens for the band. I’ve liked my time on the Allen & Heath platform; with the ability to transfer up and down the console vary has been key, as I by no means have to vary or rebuild the present file throughout any fly present configurations. For outboard, I’ve one analog piece for the ultimate stage of the combo earlier than broadcast—a Neve Portico MPB, which supplies one final stage of saturation and mid-side processing. The present has been constructed to prioritize the published combine. Working backward from that close to area combine and configuring the PA to translate has been an incredible workflow.”

The FOH present file depends closely on Timecode and is being consistently adjusted beneath the fader. Daly famous, “Throughout, there are components of theatrical efficiency that require particular mutes to assist moments mirrored within the video and lighting designs. There’s quantity automation into reverb returns, EQ adjustments to mix older and newer songs, and a vocal that goes from a full belt scream to a whisper.”

Capturing these vocals are DPA D:Facto 4018s throughout the board: “Oli [Sykes, lead vocalist] is working a Shure Axient wi-fi handheld and Jordan [Fish, keyboards] has a wired DPA. I requested that we transfer to them in 2019 as I had the prospect to attempt them with one other artist and liked them. The off-axis rejection is great for these moments the place Oli stands near the drum equipment.”

Hanging above the stage is a d&b audiotechnik’s KSL system offered by fellow Clair Group audio supplier Skan PA. As designed by his right-hand man, Jack Murphy, Daly shared, “We had some weight issues and with flying the sub hangs, with recommendation from Jack Murphy and Eighth Day, it was determined to maneuver onto KSL to permit extra containers to be flown. The KSL sounded distinctive, as d&b at all times does. It’s a really tight-sounding field. Having flown subs affords me the luxurious of not having to push the low finish as onerous for the viewers within the entrance rows. Quite a lot of the brand new materials has loads of low finish that should attain everybody, and we’ve had nice success doing that by incorporating flown subs,” he concludes.

The system includes KSL loudspeakers with SL subs each flown and on the ground in an array, with a handful of Y10P deployed alongside the entrance for fills. All of that’s pushed by d&b D80 amplifiers, making full use of d&b Array Processing.

In monitorworld, engineer Jon Simcox is working 18 wi-fi IEM mixes and a {hardware} pack for drummer Matt Nicholls, plus facet fills, further sub strains on stage, drum thumper, and round 11 FX sends. The band all go for Jerry Harvey Audio JH Audio Roxannes. Mixes are generated on a DiGiCo Quantum 338 joined by a Waves server. Plug-ins employed embrace PSE, 1176 for parallel drum compression, SSL channel, BSS402 and H-Verb.