The second week in September and Lollapalooza Berlin was
fully underway. A festival brand that has crossed the Atlantic from the USA,
and with it transplanted a considerable reputation for quality and excitement in
equal measure. The number one main stage saw artists as renowned as Macklemore
& Ryan Lewis, Bastille, and Sam Smith. Topping the bill on the closing
night was Muse, “and it was because Muse were the headliners that the obvious
choice for main stage PA was a d&b audiotechnik system,” said Silvio Koenig,
Project Manager from Berlin based production house TSE AG. “We have already
been investing in d&b and chose this event to have our first try out with
d&b’s new ArrayProcessing tool.”
TSE AG’s system design saw J-Series hung left/right of the
stage, with J-SUBs and J-INFRAs; delays used V-Series and Y?Series. “The throw
distance from stage to the furthest audience was over 110 metres,” continued
Koenig. “This being an old airfield the audience area was mainly concrete and
very flat, so getting the accurate measurements needed to correctly apply
ArrayProcessing was easy and relatively quick. Our first time with
ArrayProcessing and it was straightforward to implement and easy to use, but
does take more time in the planning stage. We did receive a lot of help from
Michael Weiss and Sven Duske at d&b, so the support was very good. More
importantly, the results were well worth the extra time spent: our client, the
festival organisers, were very pleased with the results.”
The main focus of ArrayProcessing is to enable system
engineers to optimize the level and tonal performance of d&b line array
systems over the entire listening area. For Marc Carolan, Front of House
engineer for Muse, this was his first experience with the latest ArrayCalc
feature. “Of course as a regular user of d&b systems I was already familiar
with the potential of ArrayProcessing but this was still my first experience of
it in a real world situation. I\’m happy to go on record saying it was a great
system and I was impressed by the musical detail at FoH, which was at sixty
metres. I didn\’t really get the chance to walk the field but Eddie O\’Brien, my
system tech did, and was very impressed.” Carolan also revealed he will be
deploying ArrayProcessing for Muse’s upcoming in-the-round tour.
“This was a very successful first try for us,” concluded
Koenig. “ArrayProcessing has made a significant improvement to the standards
and quality of sound delivery we can give to our clients.”
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