UBS contracted Habegger AG, a leading Swiss event and production specialist to oversee the sixteen venues. Like similar 'soft skills' organisations, Habegger does not own any equipment, and always rents in goods and services, in this instance from its regular partner Procon Schweiz, specifying high fidelity d&b audiotechnik Q-Series.
Mostly situated in downtown locations, Procon's project leader Elias Ruh explained: "For us the Q-Series system was an obvious choice; small and easy to rig, the 75° horizontal dispersion of this light weight line array is ideal for sound containment in a close urban area. But of course football fans sitting in the listening area miss nothing, at 139 dB SPL (1m) max how could they? Yet so precise is the pattern control we have had zero complaints from residents; fantastiche!"
Procon were supported in their work by 2M Audio, d&b's Swiss distributor, who in turn sourced additional Q loudspeakers from d&b in Germany.
Similarly Procon organised a sub-hire of d&b J-Series loudspeakers from Yousound in Augsburg near Munich, for a much bigger screen display and public area in Lugano where the throw distance exceeds 75m, "but again, the J gives perfect containment," said Ruh, "the levels fall away so rapidly outside the specified 80° horizontal that even over the longer throw we have been able to avoid upsetting any of the neighbours. Just great."
(Claire Beeson)
