Staged in the airport's cavernous (6,200 m2) Terminal 1, the event featured a 30-minute show on airport history along with performances by artists hailing from the airport's far-flung destinations. According to Blue Noise managing director Hendrik Rogel, the combination of a highly reverberant space and simultaneous programmes on multiple stages presented an extraordinary challenge. "The terminal is made of metal, glass, and marble," he notes, "so we had to avoid sending sound towards these surfaces. The precise and consistent coverage of Meyer Sound's UltraSeries loudspeakers and Milo family line arrays helped us to fulfill this demand flawlessly."
The main system for the large central stage comprised 24 M'elodie line array loudspeakers in four arrays, while the four smaller satellite stages each deployed six of the newest (and smallest) member of the Milofamily, the Mina line array loudspeaker.
Sandro Frei, head of sound at Blue Noise, comments, "Being early adopters, we've been working with Mina since October, and we love the transparency and clarity. I was especially impressed by the high gain before feedback. Also, the size fits into the stage designs for smaller industry events, but without loss of the directivity that you normally get only with larger systems."
The complete Meyer Sound complement also included bass support from four each 700-HP and 500-HP subwoofers as well as 18 UPA-1P, four UPJ-1P VariO, and four UPJunior VariO loudspeakers. Four UM-1P stage monitors supplied foldback, and a Galileo® loudspeaker management system with two Galileo 616 processors provided system drive.
(Jim Evans)
