Miami-based High Intensity Sound, which specialises in live sound reinforcement for concerts, festivals, special events, and also operates a commercial installation group, was contracted to provide sound reinforcement for the main stage. Owner Eric Luis discussed his firm's decision to deploy the D.A.S. Audio Aero series sound system.
"We were expecting a crowd in excess of 2,000 people," notes Luis, "and to ensure we would have ample sound pressure level, I felt it was important to use our line array system. With the trance / house / progressive music genre, it's extremely important to have a lot of low frequency performance, so I decided to use our D.A.S. Aero line arrays, accompanied by the CA-215A subwoofers. This way, we would have the levels we needed while also ensuring even coverage throughout the audience."
The main stage system erected by the High Intensity Sound crew consisted of 20 D.A.S. Audio CA-28A self-powered, two-way, mid-high line array elements that were flown 10 modules per side. For low frequency support, Luis and his team ground stacked 16 CA-215A monoamplified subwoofers -each consisting of dual 15-inch long excursion transducers - across the lower front of the stage.
For side-fills / stage monitoring, the High Intensity Sound crew used a combination of D.A.S. SML-15A 2-way, powered stage monitors sitting atop Compact-18Sub enclosures. A total of four (two each model) enclosures were used. They were positioned one "system" per each side of the stage.
"We had 10 DJ's on our stage," Luis said, "and each DJ provided a left-right feed. These signals were routed to one of our loudspeaker processing systems and, from there, went straight out through the sound system. There really wasn't much in the way of sound mixing involved on this project."
(Jim Evans)
