The technical team of Jamaica's John Swaby Entertainment, the festival's audio provider, relied on a system of self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers to reinforce the many different musical styles featured at the event.
Since this was the first time that Meyer Sound products were used at the festival, Swaby Entertainment enlisted the support of Philip Grant, managing director of Sound Design in Kingston, Meyer's dealer in Jamaica, to ensure that the equipment reached the festival on time.
The main system consisted of an array of six MILO curvilinear array loudspeakers hanging on each side of the stage, supplemented by three MSL-4 horn-loaded long-throw loudspeakers on each side for downfill, four MSL-4 cabinets per side configured as point-source (horizontal) arrays for sidefill, and two MSL-4 cabinets providing frontfill.
An LD-3 compensating line driver provided system drive and compensation for air absorption. An LD-2 line driver supplied additional system drive. A delay tower housed an array of six MSL-4 cabinets and six PSW-2 high-power flyable subwoofers.
"MILO gave us incredible power and worked perfectly with the wide range of musical genres at the festival," says Swaby. "It also integrated easily with the MSL-4, which we used as additional arrays."
(Jim Evans)
