Staged in a 7,500-seat performance space, the audio system needed to provide precision coverage with sufficient power to be heard throughout the venue, with adequate clarity to meet live broadcast standards. To achieve these goals, the professional audio team turned to Vertec for the system's loudspeaker components.
New-York based Firehouse Productions performed system integration functions and pre-event testing before shipping the entire system, the first to arrive in Vietnam, to its new owner in that country. "We have all worked extensively with Vertec line arrays in the past and have found them to be very easy to set up, extremely reliable, and most importantly, they sound great," said Mark Dittmar, vice president, Firehouse Productions. "Given the technical requirements for the Miss Universe event, the Vertec system was a natural fit."
Additional technical audio support equipment for the production was supplied by ATK/Audiotek of Valencia, CA. "Broadcast events that include live entertainment and music programme content have highly specialised requirements," says ATK/Audiotek's technical operations manager Brett Valasek. "When international productions take place in regions like South East Asia, the sponsors and producers look to the various technical specialists to work out a logistical plan that may include sourcing some local equipment while transporting other items. ATK/Audiotek outfitted the team with some specialty items not readily available in the region."
(Jim Evans)
