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Pavarotti Bids Farewell to Prague with Nexo GEO

Nexo's GEO T tangent-array system has been added to the rider for Luciano Pavarotti, currently on his Farewell Tour of the world, after a successful show at the Sazka Arena in Prague. Sound company Rebtal Pro helped the maestro say goodbye to his faithful Czech fans.

Tomas Ourednicek and the team from Rental Pro worked with Pavarotti's long-time front-of-house engineer John Pellowe, specifying a system design for the Arena which used loudspeakers from both of Nexo's GEO ranges. The GEO T tangent array system was used for main PA: 16x T4805 compact full-range cabinets and 2x T2815 downfill cabinets in each array. They used the smaller GEO S speakers for the side system, two clusters either side, each composed of 9x S805s and a downfill S830 box. Two of the subbass cabinets were flown, four more were ground-stacked.

With the eternally popular PS Series providing frontfill, the whole system was powered by Camco Vortex 6 amplifiers. Using new NXtension cards in the Nexo NX242 processors and CAMCO's EtherCAI software, Rental Pro created an arena-wide network, enabling remote monitoring of all controllers, amplifiers and operational parameters.

A first-time GEO user, John Pellowe was sufficiently impressed to add the Nexo system to the Pavarotti rider for the rest of the tour, which is expected to last well into 2006. "I was really really pleased to see a small line array perform as well as this," he says, "and I also found it one of the easiest to use. Although I'd taken NEXO Alpha out many times, this was our first show with the GEO technology, and it even had Pavarotti's management talking about how good it was. The arrays went up very fast, and I was quickly able to get the system running and sounding really good, without a lot of fiddling around. The transition between the GEO T and GEO S was excellent."

After 20 years of working with Pavarotti and the three Tenors, clocking up more than 300 shows, Pellowe is one of the most experienced engineers in vast arena and stadium venues. He has also spent many years as a recording engineer with Decca: "It has given me an insight into how things should sound. What marks opera out as different is that my job is to reproduce exactly what's happening on stage, and not to add anything on top of that. Microphones and loudspeakers are the key to this, that's why we need a transparent speaker system like the Nexo GEO, which has hardly any colouration."

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Pavarotti Bids Farewell to Prague with Nexo GEO

25th May 2005

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