Hacksound supplied a main left/right flown system composed of nine KF740 speakers plus two KF730 Compact Line Array Modules, for down-fill, per side. A dozen additional KF730 speakers, in two hangs of six, provided out-fill to the audience on either side of the stage. Five more KF730s were positioned to provide front-fill. Three hangs each of six KF730 speakers, plus a pair of SB730 Compact Line Array Subwoofers, were employed for left, centre and right delay.
Lab.gruppen amplifiers supplied power to the entire system, which was under the management of EAW UX8800 Digital Signal Processors and Lab.gruppen's Lake LM 26 Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processors.
Stefan Knetsch, technical director for Hacksound for the event, comments, "A system with, for example, nine KF740 speakers a side does an excellent job, covers large listening areas and does not even exceed 500 kg in weight. If needed you can fly it on a single point - and you can leave your protractor at home."
He continues, "At a rock music event we would have done without any delay. Classical music, however, typically includes very low sound levels in large parts of the music, so we wanted to play safe and set up delays. But in the end we barely used them. The KF740 was perfectly precise, even over the longer distances."
(Jim Evans)
