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Nordic Music Awards on Alcons
The first ever Nordic Music Awards were held recently in Oslo, Norway and rental company Audio One was the chosen live audio supplier for the event. The show, which was held in Oslo Spektrum and broadcast live on Scandinavian television, featured top international artists such as Robbie Williams, Tina Turner, Kylie Minogue, Westlife and Brian McFadden.
The Nordic Music Awards is a “to-be-held-yearly” 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 LR16s plus eight LR16Bs. Fifteen LR16 cabinets were flown as side clusters.
The large Alcons system was comprised of the inventory of Audio One and fellow ‘Ribbon Network’ member, Electrosound from Sweden.
Said Stuart Mørch-Kerrison, system engineer for the event: “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 Stockholm.
9th November 2004
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