Masque Sound Heads to Chicago with The Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon, winner of nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, has made its way to Chicago's Bank of America Theatre. For the second national tour, sound designer Brian Ronan once again turned to Masque Sound, a leading theatrical sound reinforcement, installation, and design company specializing in live concert, television broadcast, corporate, industrial, theatrical, house of worship and sports events, to supply audio equipment for the satirical musical.

"For this production, one of our main concerns was ensuring that our sound system and speakers would not interfere with the layout of the staging for the show," says Cody Spencer, Ronan's associate sound designer. "A lot of our process involves strategizing ways to provide optimal sound coverage-so that every word is heard throughout the theatre-while making the scenic department happy by keeping our system out of audience view and preventing it from inhibiting the main frame of the show."

For The Book of Mormon at the Bank of America Theatre, Masque Sound is providing Sennheiser MKE-1 microphones for the lead actors and MKE-2s for various other cast members. Other gear included DPA 4061 microphones, L'Acoustics speakers, and a Digico UB MADI interface sound console -- used to route a Qlab directly to a Digico SD7, digitally.

Spencer also notes that Masque Sound was extremely helpful in getting him and his team urgent pieces of equipment when necessary. "If there was something that we were in need of, we just called over to Masque and they took care of us. They were able to get us the equipment within a day or two, which was great. We really enjoy working with Masque Sound."