The concert - Wenn Nicht Jetzt Wann Dann (If Not Now Then When) - which featured special guests Guildo Horn, DJ Ötzi and the Kölner Symphonie, was televised by German broadcaster WDR and recorded for a live CD. While popular across Germany, the band are enormous in their hometown of Cologne and sing in the local dialect of that region.
Cologne-based PA rental company Event-Solution put together a large and complex L-Acoustics system to cover the stalls and lower balcony of the arena.
Event-Solution's Jochen Gotzen used 12 V-DOSC line source cabinets per side as the main PA system, with a total of 20 dV-DOSC compact line source speakers: three per side as down-fills and seven per side as out-fills.
This was supplemented with 12 Kiva ultra compact line source array cabinets: four per side as nearfills and four as nearfills along the front of the stage; two Kilo low frequency extension cabinets per side as near-fills; and two configurations of eight SB218 subwoofers in sub arc mode along the front of the stage.
The system was powered by two LA4 amplified controller racks, 12 RK 12/2 and four RK 12/4.
(Jim Evans)
