Rat Sound Flies L-Acoustics for I Am the Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell posted: 01/02/2019
Held at the Forum in L.A. on January 16, I Am the Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell was a five-hour fundraising concert celebrating the life and legacy of the lead singer for Soundgarden, Audioslave, and Temple of the Dog
K1/K2 delivers massive-yet-intimate sound for five-hour,
star-studded concert event
The stars came out in force for I Am the Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell, a fundraising concert held at the Forum in Los Angeles on January 16, 2019. The five-hour show was anchored by extended sets from members of three of the bands that Cornell fronted-Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, and Audioslave-and featured performances by Metallica, Foo Fighters, The Melvins, and others. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the show also featured an extensive list of guests, including Jack Black, Brad Pitt, Brandi Carlile, Fiona Apple, Josh Homme, Miley Cyrus, Adam Levine, Chris Stapleton, and Ziggy Marley, who all paid tribute to the beloved musician that suffered from depression, which led him to take his life in May of 2017.
Rat Sound supplied all of the sound reinforcement for the night, including a full L-Acoustics K1/K2/KS28 PA
Rat was honored to be asked to participate in the benefit and has a long history of working with Soundgarden,dating back to the band's tour with Danzig in 1990. The event presented some unique and complex challenges, which we enjoyed overcoming, reports Tom Worley, account manager for Rat Sound Systems, the Camarillo, California-based company that handled audio production, which included an L-Acoustics K1/K2 line array system with KS28 subs, together with five DiGiCo and two Avid mixing consoles plus an Avid multi-track recording rig. Rat Sound spent three days at the venue and fielded 15 crewmembers to handle setup, onsite rehearsals, and the show. It was a special event for a good cause, says Worley, and we were thrilled to be a part of it.
The L-Acoustics PA comprised, per side, 12 K1 arrays over six K2 for the main hangs and eight K1 over four K2 for the side hangs. Thirteen additional K2 per side provided coverage out to 270 degrees in the sold-out arena, which seats nearly 18,000. Rat Sound also flew nine KS28 subwoofers in a cardioid configuration per side, supplemented by another 20 KS28 subs on the floor. Eight ARCS II and eight Kara II cabinets provided front fill.
A stage thrust offered space for acoustic ensembles and soloists to perform while the backline was being changed over for the main bands on the turntable stage behind them, says Worley. We had some L-Acoustics X15 HiQ wedges across the front of that thrust that handled all of the acoustic acts, he says.
Sidefill on either side of the main stage comprised two ARCS II and a pair of KS28 subs. It's a nice configuration with a low profile, so the promoters liked it, Worley says.
The main arrays were each comprised of a dozen L-Acoustics K1 over six K2, flanked by nine KS28 subs and eight K1 over four K2 for side hangs
Greg Nelson, longtime front-of-house mixer for Pearl Jam, who also mixed the 2016 Temple of the Dog reunion tour, manned a DiGiCo SD5 for full-length performances by Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog, with a second SD5 handling monitors for both bands. We took a MADI split off the SD-Rack into an SD9 for guest artists, says Worley. All the guest vocalists, and anyone that came up as a guest guitarist or instrumentalist, had a set of in-ears and a set of wedges running off the SD9.
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl fronting Audioslave for a performance of Show Me How To Live
DiGiCo SD12 consoles at FOH and the stage were used to mix the acoustic acts as well as the production elements, such as the host mic and video segments played between performances. One of the night's highlights was Ryan Adams performing Cornell's Dead Wishes and Soundgarden's Fell on Black Days on acoustic guitar with several string players, including Don Was on acoustic bass, Worley reports.
The Melvins, who kicked off proceedings with a five-song set, ending with Soundgarden's Spoonman, and Audioslave, with guests such as Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Metallica's Robert Trujillo, Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath, and Chris Chaney and Perry Ferrell of Jane's Addiction, played through an Avid Profile at FOH with a second Profile for monitors.
Worley managed signal routing across the complex system using Outline's Newton multi-source, multi-format audio processor and matrix mixer, which Rat Sound has recently adopted for festivals and similar large events. We were looking for something that was bullet-proof that sounds good and is very simple and easy to use, he says.
In all, the event made use of more than 100 wireless channels for microphones, backline and IEMs, some of them on shared frequencies over the course of the night, and including spare, tech, and production shout channels. Jason Glass was our RF coordinator, says Worley. We didn't have a single issue.
Rat Sound also archived audio for the entire concert, which encompassed a total of 42 songs. The company used Avid VENUE S6L desks for the multitrack recording, says Worley, Just for the usability with Pro Tools. We had four Avid Stage 64 I/O racks, which we landed beside each monitor position, and came out of everyone's splits, analog. We picked up the stage racks as we needed them and had a main and redundant AVB stream off each desk in a production room backstage.
Soundgarden brought the night to a close with an eight-song set that saw the likes of Peter Frampton, Taylor Momsen, Marcus Durant, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Taylor Hawkins, and Buzz Osbourne, among others, rotate in and out of the lineup. The concert was the first time that Soundgarden's surviving members-guitar
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Rat Sound Flies L-Acoustics for I Am the Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell posted: 01/02/2019 
