Linkin Park recently accepted an award for ‘Best Live Act’ at the 2010 European Music Awards held in Madrid, Spain on November 7, 2010.
The band has been touring on a large Adamson systems arena rig on their two previous two world tours, ‘Minutes to Midnight’ and ‘Project Revolution’.
The ‘Best Live Act’ award was accompanied by a live performance of ‘Waiting for the end’ at the Award ceremonies.
The award was accepted by the ever band who not only thanked their entire production crew, which includes award winning FOH & Monitor Engineers ‘Pooch’ Van Druten and ‘Tater’ McCarthy, but also invited the crew to join them on stage to accept the award.
Linkin Park is currently supporting their new album ‘A Thousand Suns’ which is traveling Europe and will kick-off its North American segment in Sunrise, Florida on January 20th, 2011.
Their current arena rig consists of a L&R main hangs, each made up of 16 Y18, with an underhang of four Y10’s.
Nine T21 Subs are flown beside the main system L&R hangs, with four T21 Subs supporting on the ground. There are down fills made up of 12 Y10’s, and another 32 Y10 cabinets for out fills.
In addition, the design features 24 SpekTrix & four SpekTrix W’s as rear and front fills. On stage, Tater McCarthy uses 14 M12 monitors, and SX18 cabinets as side fills. All Adamson speakers are powered by Lab.gruppen amplifiers.
