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Ed Sheeran's record-breaking international Mathematics Tour is as much a display of artistic and technological prowess as a testament to the impact a single performer can have - when supported by the right technology. Which, here, includes an expansive Clear-Com system supplied by Major Tom, one of the preeminent global touring companies.
Typically, artists of Sheeran's status tend to add more players, more instruments, and a fair bit of backing tracks to satiate their audiences demands. As ever, Sheeran takes a different approach, creating a grand spectacle utilizing innovative and unique staging and production elements while primarily performing alone, using a custom loop setup to generate accompanying sounds live in the moment, ensuring no show is the same.
Mathematics plays out on five stages placed around the floor of the venue, usually a stadium: one center stage with a revolving rim allowing 360-degree visibility for (and of) Sheeran, and four platforms for members of his band who - in a first for Sheeran - occasionally accompany him, each at the bottom of six masts that act as counterweights in a sophisticated pulley rigging setup for a 42-ton halo above the main stage. As if that wasn't enough, pyro also figures heavily into the spectacle, with flame throwers used multiple times, culminating with a fireworks display as a finale.
Saying there are a lot of moving parts to the technical side of the production is putting it mildly. And that's where Clear-Com comes in. To pull off this technological extravaganza show after show, city after city, every member of every department lighting, audio, video, stage management, riggers, and automation need to be in constant communication, not only from a health and safety perspective but to handle the massive infrastructure deployed for Mathematics.
Designed and implemented by David White, Looper and RF Tech for Sheeran, and Adam Wells, Audio Systems Engineer, the intercom system for the Mathematics Tour consists of five 4-channel HelixNet Digital Network Partyline remote stations, FreeSpeak II Wireless Intercom System, and LQ Series IP Interfaces to distribute over the IP Network. HelixNet beltpacks are distributed across six remote camera operators, and an antennae splitter distributes the IP network to three different transceivers across the show grounds. All the various departments utilize the same system on their own dedicated HelixNet channel.
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