Seeing the Forest for the Trees
PHOTO: AMY FOSTER COONS FOSTER AMY PHOTO: Seeing the Forest for the Trees The Expansive Audio System Behind Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods Tour By Andrew King 30 PROFESSIONAL SOUND it was an SD-Rack or other into the FOH and monitor Digico product. There’s a systems. That signal is split second separate Optocore/ to another DD2FR that lives Justin Timberlake’s Digico network for moni- on the separate monitor Man of the Woods Tour tors overseen by monitor ring. engineer Paul Klimson, and Of course, for a spec- finally, a third Optocore tacle of this calibre, the fibre network drives the performance has to match entire Clair PA system. the production, and Tim- The FOH ring consists berlake has a reputation for of Meyer’s SD7 console delivering the goods. onsidering the mon- on that I was going to create a and two SD-Racks with 112 On the Man of the iker, it’s ironic that hybrid analog/digital environment,” inputs featuring Digico’s Woods Tour, Timberlake’s Justin Timberlake’s begins Andy Meyer, a veteran FOH new Stadius 32-bit preamp live band, The Tennessee extensive Man of the engineer who’s been a part of team cards. Meyer is using Opto- Kids, is comprised of four Woods Tour is carry- Timberlake since 2005. “I realized core X6R DA converters to backing vocalists, a four- ing one of the most that to do this, it had to be a clean, break out 64 channels from piece horn section, two Ccomplex and cutting-edge audio no-nonsense integration, and after the optical network into keyboard players, two systems to hit major arenas this much trial and error, I ended up three Apogee Symphony guitarists, a bassist, a drum- calendar year.
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