La Guacima racetrack, just outside San Jose, was host to the two-day concert held on 1-2 April and saw more than 30,000 attendees over the weekend. Sound contractor RSTV Sonido supplied main arrays of 12 Adamson Y18s and four Y10s per side, which provided enough sound pressure to fill La Guacima. The setup was designed by RSTV 's owner Virgilio Azofeifa and techs Elias Arias and ManriI Vargas, using Adamson's Shooter Software. To achieve perfect coverage for the enormous venue side shots and delay towers were used with the main array. Additional PA equipment included Meyer MSL4s for side- and front-fills, Meyer MILO's for delay towers and 20 Meyer HP700 subwoofers. RSTV used Lab.gruppen amplifiers for The Adamson arrays and XTA226 processing all around. Two Yamaha digital PM5D/RH consoles were used for FOH. Ramsa 840 and Ramsa SX1 consoles were used for monitoring purposes.
Jamiroquai, had just arrived from Venezuela where FOH engineer Rick Pope had mixed them on a big Adamson Y-Axis rig belonging to Estudio Sonido Henry S.A. and Audio Valencia. Therefore, Pope and his system tech were already familiar with the Y-Axis System, and found it easy and pleasant to work with, according to Daniel Fernandez, technical support for ABBA Trading, Adamson's Latin-American distributor, who was in town incidentally doing some console training.
(Lee Baldock)
