Clair Brothers delivers for Choice Awards
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“For an entertainment and music event of this magnitude and size,” explains Sadat Effendy, technical director at Total Audio, the company that produced the show, “there is only one sound system we had to consider. That’s Clair Brothers. The Indonesian market loves Clair Brothers speakers because they always deliver.”
This event always coincides with, and marks the anniversary of, the NET TV Network. This year is its fifth anniversary and the Indonesian Choice Awards show did not disappoint. Performing for an audience of 9,000, local and international musical acts filled out the evening of awards and tributes for the best in movies and music.
Effendy says: “An event of this proportion is always challenging, especially with regard to the PA, when trying to create a coherent sound acoustically.”
Wayne Grosser, managing director, Clair Brothers Australia and sound design consultant for the award show, elaborates: “I advised the production team that if too much delay was put on the main PA, the sound will not be coherent with the stage noise. The result can be unwanted slap delay, and that’s no good. So, in order to prevent that, I suggested a change to the layout of the side PA to assure timing with the main PA. The solution was the alignment of four Clair Brothers i212 8-cabinet line arrays.”
The event’s main speaker system was a combination of a Clair Brothers i212 full range PA, iS218 subs, plus additional i218 ground stacks that filled in the sides. Clair Brothers R4 and CS218 speakers were also employed for stage side-fills, with 12AM speakers for wedges.
With regard to FOH, and because a show this big is so demanding, Total Audio decided to have multiple back up plans in place just in case something went haywire. “For the FOH console we used the DiGiCo SD7,” explains Effendy, “which already possesses full mirror engine backup. But just in case the mighty SD7 failed, we set up a plan where we had another FOH console running the same input list, and yet another mixing engineer on headphones doing the same. This show is also a live event, so there is absolutely no room for system mishaps.”
(Jim Evans)
