Adamson at the Much Music Video Awards The annual Much Music Video Awards, which took place on June 19, was bigger than ever, closing some of downtown Toronto's busy streets for an entire weekend. One of Toronto's biggest parties of the year kicked off with a performance by Lady Gaga, with Snoop Dogg, Bruno Mars, Avril Lavigne, Fefe Dobson and many others taking the stage. Canadian Justin Bieber showed up to support girlfriend and event host Disney-star Selena Gomez. Reportedly, 20,000 fans took up the streets to see this live street event, taking over the Much Music parking lot and bleeding to the adjacent Queen and John Streets. ¬¬ Clair Canada provided sound production on the Parking Lot and Intersection stages, with PA Plus taking care of Red Carpet and an additional stage inside the environment where The Black Keys and City and Colour performed. Other companies involved in lighting, staging, and promotion of the event included J. Michael Elder Productions, Much Music lighting department/Christie Lights; Midnite Hour; and Optex Staging. The sound design for the street awards was designed by Dave Donin, of Clair Canada, using Clair's Adamson Y-Axis, SpekTrix, and SX Subs inventory, paired with Clair's proprietary P-2s. "It was a tough environment for the main stage, as we had to fit (the system) in amongst a lot of hanging set pieces. The system was designed using the shooter software and drawing the PA system into Google Sketch-Up, as the stage and set already existed in a full drawing already. This allowed us to make sure the PA would both cover and fit in the way we needed it to." explains Donin. The Adamson systems was chosen because of its tight coverage pattern, ease of flying with the many given obstacles, and the fact that if no tuning time was to be given: "We could turn it on and have a great sounding show right out of the box" Donin adds. The main stage system design featured two hangs of 12 Y-10 at left and right of house, with a single center hang of 6 Y-10s. Sixteen SX Subs were placed on the ground (six left, six right, four center), eight Clair P-2 were used as front fills, and a six-SpekTrix 15 degree enclosure hung as a delay. The system was processed with Clair Dolby Lake processors with AES input and powered by Lab.gruppen fP3400, fP6400, 20000Q PLM, 10000Qs. At the front of house, Mark Vreeken and Peter Stoynich took controls; at monitors were Danny Thomas, Russ Wilson, and Stein Guitton. Jon Halliwell was systems engineer for the event. The front-of-house and monitor consoles were chosen because of artist preference, with one Yamaha PM5D used as a master traffic console on the parking lot stages. The console list consisted of five Avid Profile systems (three 48 channel, two 96 channel), two Yamaha PM5Ds, and one Yamaha LS9.¬¬ 
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