Santiago’s Comercial Consca boasts more than 25 years of experience in
full-service production, providing audio systems, lighting, projection and
generators for a variety of events.
One of the most recent events to benefit from Consca’s services was
the Semana Peñaflorina, a festival organised by the Peñaflor Council,
responsible for part of Santiago’s Metropolitan Region.
Each day, the festival featured bands as the main act, playing
different styles of national music. Names such as Inti-Illimani, Gepe, Lucybell, Natalino and Chico Trujillo, amongst others, topped the bill.
The festival spanned six show days in total – each show counting an
audience of between 5,000 and 10,000. In addition, there were a further four
days of theatre performances, all of them outdoors and catering to a
thousand-strong crowd.
Consca deployed Powersoft amplification across all the stages of the
festival. The active monitor mixing was handled through four-channel M50Q Powersoft
amplifiers, whilst Powersoft M30Ds, K2s and K20s powered the loudspeaker system. With the sound system traveling through three different location set ups throughout Peñaflor –
and with each venue possessing different acoustics – changing the predictive
analysis was a necessity at each new set up.
The amplifiers at
each set up were conveniently stacked in two racks, located behind the
loudspeaker assembly. The twelve mMnitoring amplifiers were located in a
separate rack positioned discretely on the stage.
Each of the bands involved in the festival brought
its own sound engineer for the event, but Comercial Consca supplied two of
its own technicians for final system alignment and tuning following each predictive
analysis.
“The band engineers were encouraged to try the
system even though they didn’t know it. With faith in Comercial Consca
engineers, once they had tried it the opinion was unanimous. They were
shocked by each amplifier’s quality, energy and reliability, with no noise and
an incredible power”, said Luis López, Consca’s owner. “Many of the
engineers asked us what we were using to power the system and when we showed
them our Powersofts they were stunned”.
Important to note is that currently Powersoft is the only amplifier
brand Comercial Consca deploys to power up the sound systems they work with. “I’m very happy with the Powersoft amplifiers that
were supplied by local distributor CyVmusic. The performance has far exceded
our expectations”, Luis concedes.
