The Nordic Music Awards is to be an annual event for Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where national and international artists are chosen in different categories, such as Best International Female Artist, Best Nordic Band, etc.
With an audience of around 9000, the event was completely sold out, meaning a large sound system was required to adequately cover the whole audience listening area. Spektrum is a very wide and steep seated venue, so to have an even SPL coverage is always a real challenge. To do the job properly, Audio One put together a system consisting of 78 Alcons LR16 line array cabinets, 16 flown LR16B bass cabinets and 12 ground stacked BF362 subs, powered by ALC controller-amplifiers.
The two front (left, right) clusters consisted of 24 x LR16 plus 8 x LR16B. 15 x LR16 cabinets were flown as side clusters. The large Alcons system was comprised of the inventory of Audio One and fellow 'The Ribbon Network' member, Electrosound from Sweden.
Stuart Mørch-Kerrison, system engineer for the event said: "We have been using our Alcons system now for six months on everything from 'balls-to-the-wall' outdoor rock concerts to televised events like the Nordic Music Awards, all with nothing less than great success. The response from the Alcons system was fantastic and we received many positive comments that the sound in the hall was perfect and much better than usual in this venue. The Nordic Music Awards 2005 will take place in the city of Stockholm, Sweden.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
