India - PP Sound Light Productions delivered the soundscape for Mumbai’s India Cocktail Week with technologies from Meyer Sound, DiGiCo and d&b Audiotechnik.
“India Cocktail Week is a celebration of sensory experiences, and sound plays a crucial role in amplifying the audience’s connection to the event. Our goal was to deliver an immersive and consistent audio experience across the expansive festival grounds, ensuring every attendee enjoyed impeccable sound quality, regardless of their location,” says Prasad Parkar, founder-director of PP Sound Light Productions.
India Cocktail Week (ICW) returned for its fifth edition on 30 November and 1 December 2024 at Mumbai’s Jio World Garden.
A vibrant community platform, ICW has long established itself as more than just a festival. It is a melting pot where spirits industry professionals, brand representatives, tastemakers, beverage influencers, and music lovers converge to share, learn, and celebrate. This year’s festival provided attendees the opportunity to explore offerings from over 30 spirits brands, engage in mixology masterclasses, and experience bar pop-ups featuring star bartenders from the World’s Top 50 Bars.
Live performances from artists such as Rivo, Anyasa, Nightmares On Wax, When Chai Met Toast, Kampai, and Teho (live set) brought an electrifying energy to the event.
To match the festival’s immersive vision, PP Sound Light Productions was tasked with creating a sonic spectacle that would elevate the festival experience.
The soundscape for ICW 2024 was centred around the deployment of Meyer Sound’s Panther line array system. A total of 16 units of the Panther modules were deployed as the main PA in a stereo configuration, with eight modules per side.
To complement the line arrays, 16 units of Meyer Sound 2100-LFC high-performance subwoofers were ground stacked to deliver low frequencies that energised the audience and elevated the live performances. Additional Panther modules were deployed as front-fill reinforcement, further enhancing the consistency of sound coverage across the venue.
“The Panther system’s power, unmatched throw, expansive coverage, and impeccable voicing enabled us to deliver a breathtakingly immersive audio experience. It maintained perfect linearity and delivered tremendously impactful power output without compromising on tonal accuracy or precision in frequency response,” shared Parkar. He further credited Meyer Sound’s Galileo system for its management capabilities, allowing team PP to fine-tune every detail of the audio performance with remarkable precision.
The stage monitoring system featured d&b Audiotechnik’s V-series modules paired with B22 subwoofers, delivering robust and accurate sound reproduction for the performers. Each side of the artist console was equipped with two V-series modules and one B22 subwoofer, ensuring that the artists could perform with complete confidence and clarity.
The artists were further supported by wireless microphone systems, including Shure’s Axient Digital and Sennheiser’s 6000 Digital series, as well as in-ear monitoring solutions from Sennheiser’s IEM 2000 series. A DiGiCo Quantum 338 digital mixing console was deployed at the FOH position.
Parkar concludes: “The combination of Meyer Sound PA rig, d&b stage monitoring, and industry-leading solutions from DiGiCo, Shure, and Sennheiser, allowed us to meet the technical requirements of a diverse line-up of artists. The reliability and performance of these systems were crucial in delivering a flawless experience.”
