Hans Zimmer Live Adds Infrasound to North American Tour with Danley Sound Labs

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Touring North America in Fall 2024

Danley Sound Labs DTS10 subwoofers deliver infrasound to create unique experience.

The smash-hit tour Hans Zimmer Live is currently touring in North America before heading to Europe later this year. In this groundbreaking audio and visual show, the multiple Academy Award® and Grammy winning Zimmer, his band and an ensemble orchestra perform a selection of the composer’s scores from some of cinema’s biggest films. The newly arranged concert suites include music from Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, The Lion King, The Last Samurai and Dune, for which Zimmer received his second Academy Award®.

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“The width of Hans’ music is so broad, it’s amazing to mix,” said Colin Pink, front of house engineer for Hans Zimmer Live and the World of Hans Zimmer. “As an engineer, it comes with a lot of challenges in the mix and the PA as you’re covering small intimate chamber orchestras to massive punk rock feel.”

To produce some of Zimmer’s most unique sounds, the capacitors are removed from all the keyboards during the production so they can reach as low as 10 Hz. While humans can sometimes hear tones below 20 Hz, at 10 Hz people still feel the sound and low-pressure levels on their eardrums. The audio team for the tour were frustrated that they were missing the bottom octave with their current system and wanted to add some low-end extension to reach these new lows and satisfy the auditory vision of the award-winning composer. Enter Danley Sound Labs. The team found Danley’s DTS10 subwoofer, a high-definition subwoofer built for cinemas with an unheard-of output down to these frequencies.

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“They chose the DTS10 because it’s one of the few subwoofers on the market that goes down that low,” said Tom Danley, director of research and development at Danley Sound Labs. “It’s considerably more powerful than a vented box if you could even tune one that low and you really can’t.”

“We’re utilizing 12 DTS10’s across the front of the stage,” said Pink. “It actually looks beautiful as they just disappear. They are visually elegant boxes and giving us that low frequency extension that we need. What I love is that they are doing their job but there are no artifacts. The subs are just clean, powerful and elegant.”

“This is a special need,” said Jason Spencer, a System Design Engineer at Danley Sound Labs. “This doesn’t happen with most live performances. It’s been fun to learn how much Hans loves bass which is right in line with Tom Danley’s philosophy: the more bass the better and if you can’t hear but you feel it that’s even better.”

“I did hear some of the early rehearsal,” said Danley. “The DTS10 subs feel in the bottom end very nicely and are doing exactly what they are supposed to.”

Hans Zimmer Live continues with remaining North America dates in Nevada, California, and Washington in the United States and British Columbia. For more information, or to purchase tickets visit hanszimmerlive.com.

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When you’re looking for the ideal low-end for your home cinema – or even a tour like Hans Zimmer Live – the Danley DTS10 brings clean bass as low as 10 Hz to your system. As we say at Danley, “the lower the better and if you can feel it that’s even better.”
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