These diverse demands presented a challenge for Guy Morris of MLS, the local rental company. For this event, he required a sound system that could do a top job of reproducing speech, prerecorded music, and live music equally well over a large area. He chose the HK Audio Cohedra Compact line array and set up eight CDR 108s and four CDR 210 subwoofers on each side of the stage, and powered them with three matching PR8 amp racks with digital field controllers.
Due to the width of the stage, two ConTour Series CT 115 cabinets were also employed as front-fills. The monitoring chores were handled by six DART active monitors, with four CT 108 stage monitors used for the chorus.
Guy Morris comments: "Since the actors involved in the theatre production were all using headset microphones, I absolutely needed a flexible sound system with high gain before feedback that could reproduce the individual voices clearly and distinctly without distorting them. On top of that, both the music on tape and the songs played live had to come through loud and clear. That's why the Cohedra Compact system was my first choice."
(Jim Evans)
