Sound reinforcement at the event in question - held at the city's highly modern Palau Sant Jordi - was entrusted to Planet Service of San Marino, a rental company with a stock of Outline arrays and one of the most qualified European companies in the corporate event field, with clients including Nike, Asics, Reebok, Mercedes Smart Tour, Upim, Villaggi del Ventaglio, Tecnocasa, Valleverde, Autogrill and many more.
The Butterfly system installed by Planet Service - supported by domestic rental companies Ajuste (Madrid) and Backlight (Lisbon), both of which have Outline arrays - consisted in a total of 88 CDH 483 Hi-Packs and 28 Victor Live subwoofers, the latter installed on the floor. The rig was powered by T6.5 digital power amplifiers and Genius 26 DSP, also manufactured by Outline.
The Outline rig's fine-tuning was entrusted to Carlo Gennaro, the sound engineer brought in by Planet Service due to his in-depth knowledge of the Butterfly system as well as Outline's V.I.P. (Vector Implementation Protocol) array aiming programme. He comments: "The Sant Jordi venue causes reflections, problems which - according to the in-house technicians - many sound systems aren't able to avoid. Following considerable experience in arenas of this size, but above all thanks to Butterfly, which we consider a tool providing 'surgical' precision, we managed to obtain a level of intelligibility never achieved in this venue previously."
(Jim Evans)
