To ensure the music was reproduced accurately and with high enough sound pressure levels (to ensure coverage throughout the audience area, loudspeaker systems from the Aero Series 2, Vantec, and Road catalogues of D.A.S. Audio were deployed.
LPS Production Services of Miami, FL was contracted to handle the audio logistics for this year's festival. Company president Jose Laria, who is actively involved in everything from sales to system design to on-site engineering, discussed the project and his reasons for deploying the D.A.S. Audio loudspeaker systems.
"This was a big, outdoor concert event," Laria explained, "so we needed to ensure that the system we assembled had excellent music reproduction and speech intelligibility characteristics so as to provide clear, even coverage across the entire area.
"To accomplish this, our setup included 16 Aero 50 3- way large-format line array elements - with eight enclosures each for the left and right main hangs. These were augmented by four Aero 12A powered two-way, mid-high line array modules - two enclosures per side that served as down-fills. For low frequency support, we placed 12 D.A.S. UX-221A powered ultra-low frequency subwoofer enclosures, which we arranged as a centre cluster - stacked two-high across the front of stage."
"For side-fills," he continued, "we deployed six Aero 20A powered, compact line array elements - three enclosures each for left and right - and coupled these with four LX-218A subwoofers, which were positioned two enclosures per side. We also used another four D.A.S. Aero 20A enclosures for front-fill.
"The stage monitor setup consisted of four Road 15A powered, two-way stage monitors while, for the DJ monitor setup, we used two Vantec 215A powered 3-way enclosures with two Vantec 18A powered subwoofers. These loudspeakers were arranged one stack per side."
(Jim Evans)
