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Cohedra Proves its Versatility to Spanish Market
HK Audio’s Spanish distributor Adagio has made a big impact on the live sound community by holding two separate demonstrations of the Cohedra Coherent Dynamic Response Array system.
The May presentations were held in two separate venues, one outdoors and one indoors, to demonstrate the flexibility of the system to local PA rental companies, sound technicians, events promoters and even a politician.
The outdoor demonstration was at the Plaza de Toros de Algeciras, in the Southern province of Cadiz. This circular, 50m diameter bullfighting ring has a capacity of 12,500. “We were supported by our best customer in the city, the Sonilprof PA rental company, and assisted by general manager Santiago Sanchez and his crew,” says Adagio’s product manager Xavier Martinez.
Twelve Cohedra mid/high cabinets per side – six CDR 208 Ts and CDR 208 Ss - were flown on aluminum trusses. These were supplemented with a stack of 12 Cohedra CDR 210 Sub subwoofers per side. The system was powered with two PR 16 and two PR 8 amp racks.
After putting this system through its paces, the upper four mid/high units on each side were muted and the filter settings in the Digital Field Controllers (DFCs) changed to a 2x8 setup. The resulting system of four CDR 208 Ss, four CDR 208 Ts and eight CDR 210 Subs per side was then demonstrated. Additionally, at the request of an interested rental company, a system of 12 mid/high units with just eight subs per side was tried out, and found to be adequate for the bull ring. Different types of CD music ranging from flamenco to metal was played through the system to demonstrate Cohedra’s versatility.
The second, indoor demonstration was held a week later at the Razmatazz Club in Barcelona, one of the city’s best-known live music venues, a rectangular room 40m long by 30m wide with a capacity of 2,500. Here, Adagio was assisted by Floreal Forradellas, general manager of the Autonomia de l’Espectacle rental company, and his crew.
A system of eight mid/high units – four CDR 208 Ss and four CDR 208 Ts – with eight CDR 210 Subs per side was used, powered by two PR 16 amp racks. The mid/highs were suspended from the venue’s flying points, with subs ground stacked. This time, in addition to CD music, local band Ojos de Brujo, a flamenco/rock/hip-hop fusion band played live. As an experiment, some hardcore rave music was played from CD, for which four SL 218A active subwoofers with integrated active electronics were called into action. These were controlled by a separate DFC and assigned to an AUX channel of the console. Although the addition of these subs was felt to add a boost to the rave music, it was generally considered that the Cohedra CDR 210 Subs do a great job for live music.
According to Martinez, the response to Cohedra was extremely good. “Everyone was impressed at how much air the 10” subs push,” he says. “Overall, the reaction to this first-time hearing of Cohedra in Spain was very positive. There’s definitely a market for this system here, and already we’re talking seriously to a number of different rental companies.”
7th June 2004
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