Outside Lands urges attendees to think and act on climate change by featuring the Eco Lands interactive conservation programme, a solar-powered stage, an organic farmers' market, and plenty of educational opportunities.
Long committed to being a sustainable business and supporting the local music scene, Meyer Sound has signed on as the festival's official Audio Systems Partner, providing its sound reinforcement equipment in collaboration with its dealer, Hercules, Calif.-based Pro Media/UltraSound.
Serving the headliner Lands End stage at the Polo Field are two arrays of 17 Milo and one Milo 120 line array loudspeakers, augmented by two side arrays of eight more Milo's each. Two hangs of 10 M3D-Sub directional subwoofers handle the low end, with five more in the centre pit. Front-fill features the new UPQ-1P wide coverage loudspeakers, with delay rigs of four MSL-10 and eight MSL-4 loudspeakers.
"At large outdoor festivals like this one, the strength of the Meyer gear becomes very clear," said Derek Featherstone, UltraSound's director of rentals and touring. "The Milo sounds great across a wide range of material, and in an environment like this with multiple stages, its coverage is more manageable than other speaker systems, providing greater control of stage-to-stage spillover."
(Jim Evans)
