The new Festival de Les Arts recently celebrated in
Valencia is the latest on the list of must-attend events on the Spanish
festival calendar. D.A.S. systems have been a regular fixture at many of these festivals,
and were on hand at Les Arts to guarantee superb sound for the festival’s
debut, which featured a line-up of national and international bands that
included La Habitación Roja, Lori Meyers, Delorean and British group The
Wombats.
Over 22,000 festival-goers descended on Valencia’s City
of Arts and Sciences complex for the event, where three massive stage hosted
over 30 performances over the two-day celebration of music and the arts. Sound
company Fluge was called in to handle the sound for the festival and teamed up
with D.A.S. Audio, setting up a range of systems from D.A.S. Audio’s extensive
product catalog on all three stages.
Fluge rolled out 24 large-format D.A.S. Aero 50 line
array systems for the Heineken main stage, which required a robust PA. The Aero
50´s were flown in two hangs of 12 units each on either side of the stage. New
D.A.S. UX-221A double 21\” powered subwoofers were deployed in two blocks
of 9 cabinets under each hang for exceptional low-frequency punch.
Fluge employed D.A.S. Convert series systems for front
fill duty, while a combination of Convert systems with LX-218CA subwoofers were
employed for side fill. The constant stream of artists that crossed the stage
over the festival also had a battery of self-powered D.A.S. Road Series stage
monitors at their service. The set-up at the Heineken stage was rounded out by
a delay system equipped with the new powered Aero 40A ALAS™ (Advanced Line
Array System).
