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Butterflies for Andrea Bocelli in Azerbaijan
A system made up of 20 Outline Butterfly CDH 483 Hi-Packs and eight SubTech 218 was recently involved in a prestigious permanent installation for sound reinforcement at the "Buta" Palace, in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan where Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and soprano Paola Sanguinetti - accompanied by the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Orchestra - held a concert on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the ‘Heydar Aliyev' Foundation.
Commenting on the use of the Outlinearray, the event's FOH engineer, Andrea Taglia, comments: "Although I'm Italian, I'd never had the opportunity before of working with Outline's Butterfly with the necessary calm. Using it for this concert with Andrea Bocelli and soprano Paola Sanguinetti, accompanied by the orchestra, was a really pleasant surprise. As well as its well known extremely compact dimensions, which in venues with such carefully designed architecture are always a great help when positioning sound reinforcement systems in the best way, I was considerably struck by the timbre and very uniform frequency response, as well as the simply perfect acoustic coverage angle. I have rarely worked with a rig able to ensure dispersion that is so well controlled and true to the manufacturer's specifications. Thanks to this, the job of aligning the rig was easy and very satisfying. I hope to be able to work with this system again in the future, as I'm sure I'll obtain the best results."
Buta Palace is a venue hosting concerts, conferences and other important events. Designed and built with no compromises from the point of view of aesthetics and technology. It is used by the government and Azerbaijan's president's family.
As well as the Butterfly systems, this permanent installation - by Sofit Light, one of Outline's Russian dealers - includes a series of Micra II and Micra II SP (self-powered) enclosures for medium/short throw distribution of highly intelligible sound during banquets. These enclosures are installed in groups of four in the chandeliers.
The power amplifiers driving the Butterfly VLA are also Outline (T7), as are the Genius 26 signal processors. The digital mixing consoles are by Innovason.
4th November 2009
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