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Meyer's Technical Support Manager, Michael Maxson with Jay Day, Sound support for Metallica.
To add to the momentous occasion, Meyer Sound's International Sound Designer, Dave Dennison made the trip down from California to KL. "This show is historic and in terms of its size and scope, we wanted to support Metallica and to make sure everything was fine with their shows, its really something that we are proud to be apart of,” said Dave. In the days leading up to the show, Dave, ''Big Mick'' Hughes, Metallica's FoH Engineer, and Meyer System Specialist with EHQ, Batumalai ‘Stone’ worked together to fine-tune the main PA system. A man no mere mortal should challenge in audio capabilities, Big Mick has been handling the FoH duties of Metallica for the past 30
Anton Richards and Batumalai 'Stone', EHQ's audio chiefs.
years and has been a supporter of Meyer for 8. Meyer's Technical Support Manager, Michael Maxson, who was in town to show his support as well commented,“Big Mick's signature is to feel the music in your soul. Tonight we wanted to be able to go through the density of people so we had blocks of subs on the left and right for pure power and that was a decision between Mick, Dave and I.” On stage, Metallica's Monitor Engineer Bob Cowan and Assistant Monitor Engineer Adam Correia handled the mix via Midas Pro and Pro 2 monitors. Assisting the pair were Freelance Monitor Engineer with EHQ, Anton Richards assisted together with EHQ’s freelance Stage Technicians Brandon, Gajen, Anthony and Soon Seng.
Looking like a proud father after the show, Big Mick gushed, “We've never been here before but everybody is so friendly and nice and I seem to be a star down here for some reason. All the guys have been fantastic, and they've worked really really hard because it's not easy to do a concert of this scale. The fact that we do these sort of shows all the time, while most local companies may only do it a couple of times a year and then we come in and demand so many things to be done, it's really not easy.” On mixing with a Midas XL8 console for the show, he added, "I've had this console for 5 years now but it still feels new. It's a great sounding desk and its comfortable.”