With a cast of over 2,200 performing in the round on the arena floor, the challenge for sound system provider Webb Audio Visual was to mount a system that could provide full, high-fidelity coverage to every seat without spilling onto the stage area and causing feedback issues. Webb AV's Scott Webb opted for a self-powered Meyer Sound system and cross-rented a MILO high-power curvilinear array system from Audio West of Yorba Linda, California.
From a technical standpoint, the show was distinctly different from and more difficult than most. "Literally the entire floor of the arena was the stage," Webb says, "and we couldn't have any feedback. With the MILO system and the way the (coverage) dropoff works, we were able to cover every single seat from the top (of the arena) down to the front row, with nothing pointing at the floor."
The main system consisted of 24 MILO family loudspeakers. Four arrays, each consisting of five MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers and one MILO 120 expanded coverage high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker, were hung from a 30-by-30-foot truss rigged around the scoreboard. Low end was provided by four groundstacked 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers on the arena floor, while system drive needs were met by an LD-3 compensating line driver. The system was tuned using a SIM 3 audio analyzer.
(Jim Evans)
