Concert Stuff Group Carries Outline GTO Rig Through Entire 2026 Luke Combs Stadium TourLuke Combs closed his My Kinda Saturday Night Tour at Wembley Stadium on July 31 and August 1 and 2, with three sold-out shows of roughly 90,000 people each. Guinness World Records certified him as the first solo country artist to headline the venue. Audio for the tour -- every date across North America and Europe, Wembley included -- was handled by US-based Special Event Services (SES), using its Outline GTO line array system. It is the fourth consecutive year that SES has supplied and deployed Outline's flagship system for the production. Until this year, the Outline rig covered the North American routing, Canada included, with overseas dates served by locally sourced systems. For 2026, SES took a different approach: It shipped its own GTO inventory across the Atlantic and moved it through six countries in five weeks, so that the platform, the tuning, and the crew that opened the tour in Las Vegas in March were the same that closed it in London in August. The tour opened on March 21 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and finished at Wembley, by way of Montreal, Toronto, Gothenburg -- 60,826 people at Ullevi on July 4, the largest country music audience recorded in the Nordic region -- Paris, Amsterdam, Slane Castle and Edinburgh. Thomas Rhett opened all three nights, joining Combs on stage for "1, 2 Many" on the closing evening; the second show also featured a guest appearance by Niall Horan. At Wembley, the system ran end-stage, rather than in the 360-degree in-the-round configuration used on selected US dates. The main hangs combined GTO modules with GTO-DF downfill and GTO-SUB low-frequency elements, Mantas 28 arrays handled out-fill, and delay towers built from GTO and GTO C-12 carried coverage to the furthest sections of the bowl. Beneath the stage, LAB 21-HS infra-subwoofers anchored the bottom octave, with LIPF-082 front-fill loudspeakers resting directly on top. Two Outline Newton FPGA processors handled system control and optimization. System design was led by sound designers Jason Farah and Joe Lefebvre, who used Outline's OpenArray 3D simulation software to model each venue in advance, with Todd Lewis at front of house. Worldwide production was overseen by production manager Jerry Slone. Concert Stuff Group (CSG) supported the run through its specialized divisions: Special Event Transportation for equipment haulage, Guardian for barricade and cable management, and Field Protection Agency for turf and venue surface protection. The production's strategic growth, from arenas to full-scale stadium environments, has been coordinated for CSG by Chief Strategy Officer Michael Brammer. For more information, visit specialeventservices.com. 
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