Innsbruck's city centre was transformed into a huge party zone for the 2012 Games, with an action-packed programme taking place at Medals Plaza, which hosted not only the daily Victory Ceremonies but also the week-long Innsbruck 2012 Music Festival.
The challenge was to find a perfect setup for the wide ranging styles of music performed, from Austrian folklore and folk music through to hip hop, rock acts and the daily Victory Ceremonies, and also taking into account the 90dB limit set by the city.
Light and Sound made good use of L-Acoustics' SOUNDVISION 3D acoustic simulation programme to create a KARA/KIVA system that guaranteed optimal sound and speech intelligibility at every listening position.
The main system consisted of nine KARA cabinets for left and right hangs, four SB28 and four L- SB18 subwoofers for each side and four 12XT coaxials for in-fill and out-fill. The system was powered by nine LA8 amplified controllers in LA-RAKs.
The delay system consisted of seven KIVA cabinets and two KILO low frequency extensions for left and right hangs.
A stage monitoring system of12 115XT HiQ active monitors and three dV-Subs was powered by eight LA8 amplified controllers in LA-RAKs.
"The system performed impeccably throughout the eight-day event, pleasing the sound engineers and the Olympic committee with its presence, clarity and detail," says Günter Dorfer, project manager at Light and Sound. "KARA and KIVA are very efficient systems."
(Jim Evans)
