Date: January 2008

MOORE PRAISE FOR XTA ON GARY’S LATEST UK TOUR

When guitar legend Gary Moore toured the UK at the end of last year to promote his latest album Close As You Can Get, Front of House engineer Dave Wooster once again joined Moore and the band, arriving, as usual, with his much loved XTA audio management systems.

The Irish guitarist and vocalist Gary Moore played at 1,200 to 3,000 capacity venues where Wooster used Capital Sound’s Martin Audio system, controlled via an XTA DP448 and three XTA DP226s.

Two of the DP226s controlled the main flown Martin Audio W8LC line array, left and right. The other DP226 was used for the LC ground-stack system that was also in a left and right configuration. The DP448 was used as an overall system drive, as well as running the Martin Audio W8LMs in-fills and driving the Martin Audio subs.

The digital feed came from a DiGiCo D1 console, and was into two pairs with one half of the DP448 controlling the flown system, whilst the other half was able to control anything on the ground, including graphics, parametrics and delays, all totally integrated within one software package.

“I’ve been using the DP448 since it came out. I’m quite insistent that it be at the front-end of my system, whether it be just as a drive distribution unit into other crossover systems or whether it’s integrated, preferably, within an XTA system,” says Wooster. “I still really like the EQ variations, not only the graphics but the options it gives me for excellent EQ with the minimum need for phase corrections within EQ. The parametrics are the most powerful EQs that I’ve used within any form of digital system crossover.”

Wooster connected his XTA SiDD across the stereo bus on the DiGiCo D1 desk. SiddCore control software allows remote control of XTA's AudioCore product DP324. Up to 32 units can be controlled via a PC computer using either RS232 or RS485 interfaces, or via TCP/IP wireless Ethernet link. It is compatible with Windows 98/ME/2000, NT and XP.

“I use the XTA SiDD, wherever I am, it’s an amazing tool for that live fix during the show rather than having to dive into the XTAs,” explains Wooster. “Sometimes it’s easier to have three or four bands of parametric that you can easily access. The dynamics within Gary’s set requires a small amount of dynamic EQ compression at around 3kHz where the guitars and his vocals sometimes get a little bit edgy. I don’t have to worry about it because I know the SIDD’s taken care of it.” Wooster also uses his XTA SiDD at his studio (www.koolworld.co.uk) for both tracking and mixing duties, again a tool for all jobs.

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Stuart Down, XTA 
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