Dave Matthews Band wrapped their November US tour with two sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden, deploying a system anchored by our PANTHER large-format linear line array loudspeakers for the first time.
DMB has carried Meyer Sound for their 25+ years of touring, and FOH Engineer Tom Lyon was excited for the chance to deploy UltraSound, LLC’s PANTHER system on this recent run. “I had a lot of fun mixing on PANTHER. I noticed a certain sparkle to the top end of Dave’s guitar that I hadn’t noticed before. Everything sounded nicer through the system. When we walked around, we could tell the improvement of the coverage consistency: it sounds great off axis as it does down the middle of the coverage. I hardly had to touch the EQ on the system at all.”
The system was comprised of 18 PANTHER-L loudspeakers for left and right mains with two PANTHER-W per side, 10 PANTHER-L, and six PANTHER-W loudspeakers per left and right sides. 270-degree side hangs of 12 LEOPARD compact linear line array loudspeakers complemented the left and right sides. In addition, there were flown subs of nine 1100-LFC low frequency control elements in gradient cardioid per side with two 1100-LFCs per side on the ground. Eight LEOPARD loudspeakers provided front fill across the edge of the stage with extra fills of two CQ-2 per side. Everything was driven analog from four Galileo GALAXY Network Platforms per side.
Thanks to UltraSound and DMB for taking PANTHER out on the road!