Linkin Park’s longtime FOH engineer Kenneth van Druten aka Pooch has written up a little article about the technical changes of Linkin Park’s tour. He talks a bit about the rehearsals and upcoming shows, but the biggest part of the article contains lots of information about Linkin Park’s gear:
We were scheduled for three weeks of rehearsals, which sounds like a LOT, but you would be mistaken. We have taken Linkin Park to a new level, and with that process we upgraded and changed EVERYTHING.
First lets start with the audio department. The past – profile and Pro tools at FOH, PM5D at monitors. The future – We upgraded ALL of our gear. A Waves enabled Digico SD7 at monitors AND FOH with optocore sharing of stage racks. 96K. 128 inputs, 56 monitor outs, plus AES and FOH analog outputs for drive at stage racks. Also an SD mini rack at FOH to handle AES ins and outs of outboard gear, etc. A huge system that all has to talk to each other. FOH has 6 Mac Mini I7’s, and two I7 Waves extreme servers. A gigantic amount of DSP processing at FOH in order to keep everything in the digital realm right up until speakers.
