The main venue of the immense Eurogress, the 'Europa Saal', has a large capacity (2500 standing or 1800 seated) and a large stage with a variable height which can be lowered down to floor level, to give place to an additional 200 seats. The stage also has a variable depth from 3m up to 16m. This variability was the reason for Axel Dresbach, Eurogress technical manager, to add the DreamLines to the existing line array system of 16 Sound Projects Linex cabinets.
The DreamLines are rigged on both sides of the stage and are used as front-fill, in-fill and down-fill boxes. Dresbach explains: "The choice for this system was not complicated. Sound Projects had already supplied the main system, which works excellently well when working with maximum stage depth. But with a smaller stage we found the near field now was the weakest link. Looking for a solution we initially thought about using eight Sound Projects X-act monitors as front-fill. However, difference in output level between the seats near the stage and a few meters back were too large. Jan [Slooter, MD Sound Projects] then suggested we use the DreamLine and we were excited ever since we tried it."
Dresbach says he is "very satisfied" with the DreamLines: "The system has a convincing first-class sound, it is very easy to handle and the sound fits the existing Linex installation perfectly. And nonetheless delivers the required SPL next to the Linex system."
Eurogress also purchased another four Sound Projects X-act monitors. These are being used flexibly as stage monitors, side-fill or as a simple, small PA system. Dresbach says: "We adore the small X-act; the monitor has a superb sound for its size and is ever so easy to handle."
(Lee Baldock)
