BAPTISM BY IMMERSION
“My biggest concern was the gain before feedback figures, but I had more gain before feedback than I’ve ever had before”
In mid-July, The Classic BRIT Awards was due to descend on the Royal Albert Hall in the UK. It would be a televised event, with crossover artists like Tokyo Myers layering virtuoso pianoscapes and epic drum sequences over orchestral backing. It was the perfect gig to showcase L-Acoustics’ immersive sound system L-ISA, and beam the audience’s response into living rooms across the nation.
Of course, an event like that doesn’t go to air untested. There had to be a guinea pig, and Adam Rhodes was it. Brit Row called up Rhodes to ask him if he wanted to demo L-ISA when Angus & Julia Stone were playing the hall just three days prior. Sweetening the deal, Brit Row said the PA wouldn’t cost a cent more. Music to the ears of any promoter. The deal was done, and a month later Rhodes was sitting in a pre-production suite, staring at a bunch of L-Acoustics speakers with six hours to get his head around a revolution in live sound.
“We were the first people in the UK
