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KM Sound and Meyer Sound Power Latvian Song and Dance Festival
With its choir of more than 15,000 dressed in traditional garb, large groups of folk musicians and full orchestras providing backing, a full range of art exhibitions and parades, and 100,000 onlookers, no one would argue the Latvian Song and Dance Festival's significance to local culture and national identity. Held once every five years, the festival transformed Riga, Latvia for one week this summer. Local audio company KM Sound provided a large complement of self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers for sound reinforcement for the event, successfully meeting the complex sound design challenges along the way.
These challenges were not limited to the sheer size of the festival. "It was very difficult to provide coverage to the auditorium area," notes sound engineer and FOH mixer Andris Uze. "We had no rigging points available, no cranes allowed, plus no place to put a center cluster, which necessitated many small delay and fill boxes."
Meyer Sound's MAPP Online Pro acoustical prediction program proved to be a great partner for Uze, and helped to create a design of left and right towers of 12 MILO line array loudspeakers per side, with six 700-HP subwoofers per side in an end-fired configuration. Two CQ-1 loudspeakers, three UPA-1P loudspeakers, and five 700-HP subwoofers served as centerfill. Six UPA-1P loudspeakers were placed in the rear for delay. Monitoring was courtesy of 10 UPM-1P loudspeakers, four UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers, and 16 MJF-212A stage monitors. A SIM 3 audio analyzer handled system tuning.
Many of the musicians were struck by the pure sound quality from the Meyer Sound system. "The artists and conductors told us how well the system reproduced the sound of the choir without any alteration, even when the SPL was about 20 dB higher once we switched it on!" explains Uze.
Having used Meyer Sound equipment for over a decade, Uze trusts Meyer Sound to fulfill any application requirements. "I prefer to use Meyer products as I can achieve better results with them," he says, "and because of the ease of setup and cabling with self-powered boxes."
20th October 2008
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