2 Friends Tour with Michael W. Smith & Amy Grant

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 by Ben Christy

In February, multi-platinum recording artists Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith teamed up for a multi-city U.S. tour that reunited the two iconic singer/songwriters for the first time on the road together since the early 90’s.  CTS Audio was chosen to provide audio production for this landmark tour.  To ensure that fans in every seat were able to thoroughly enjoy this reunion of talent, CTS Audio flew a JBL Vertec 4888/4880/4886 Line Array powered by I-Tech HD 12000 amplifiers.  A Digidesign Profile Console was deployed for FOH, along with a Yamaha PM5D for Monitors.  Representing one of the first audio companies to do so, the CTS team beta-tested the Performance Manager by System Architecture.  In addition the audio crew applied the brand new Version 5 Tunings software (provided by Harman) to monitor and adjust the individual zones within the array.

The Spring portion of the tour visited 20 cities across the country, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Omaha, Minneapolis and Columbus (Ohio), among others and was such a raving success that a fall route was put together to extend the tour.  There are still a few remaining fall dates and tickets are available.  For more information or for tickets, visit: http://amygrant.com/tour/