Reynolds has supported countless large-scale shows at Bangalore Palace through the years. With more than 20,000 eager fans set to attend Aerosmith's inaugural concert, technical director Mike Furtado knew he had a busy night ahead. "We needed a system that could deliver around 110 decibels across the grounds," he says. "The band also required a whole lot of low end."
To meet both requirements, Furtado and crew supplied a Meyer Sound system comprising two front line arrays, each consisting of two Milo 60 narrow coverage high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers, 14 Milo high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers, and one Milo 120 expanded coverage high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker. Six CQ-2 full-range narrow coverage loudspeakers in between the front arrays handled front-fill and down-fill, while nine 700-HP ultra high-power subwoofers per side, ground-stacked in front of the stage, and flown centre clusters of three M3D-Sub directional subwoofers per side helped boost low end SPL. Two delay towers near the rear of the grounds, each comprising six MSL-4 horn-loaded long-throw loudspeakers and two M3D-Sub cabinets, helped to maintain a uniform level throughout the tightly packed crowd.
"We were forced to put the CQ-2s on a ramp running across the front of the arrays, which effectively meant that we had to place the subs well in front of the fills," Furtado says. "This could have completely drowned out the fills; however, we were able to easily correct this with the Galileo's alignment functions."
(Jim Evans)
