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Meyer Sound Shows Versatility at Music Midtown Festival
With six stages hosting over 100 major and emerging musical acts, the Music Midtown Festival boasts one of the most diverse line-ups of any festival in the world. This June, for the 12th year in a row, the Atlanta, Georgia, event rolled out the best in southern comfort and hospitality, in addition to a lot of music, to entertain more than 300,000 guests on the 40-plus-acre festival site.
As in the past, Rock ‘n’ Road Audio of Tucker, Georgia, was on hand to supply the sound for the event. Rock ‘n’ Road’s Roy Drukenmiller and on-site production manager James (Jid) O’Brien worked with Nashville’s Spectrum Sound and Blackhawk Audio to ensure there would be enough powerful hardware to guarantee a splendid time for all.
On the Miller Lite/99X/Comcast Stage, alt-rock ruled with a line-up that included the Pixies, Lemonheads, White Stripes, DEVO and Keane performing through a rather substantial array featuring 34 MILO and four MILO 120 expanded coverage high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers, as well as two dozen 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers. Four MSL-4 horn-loaded long-throw loudspeakers provided frontfill. FOH engineer Tommy Rodgers drove the mix using a Yamaha PM1D digital console, with loudspeaker processing courtesy of an LD-3 compensating line driver.
The Hooters/Kicks 101.5 stage featured an all-star country line-up including Alan Jackson, Jo Dee Messina, Keith Urban, Trace Adkins and Cross Canadian Ragweed. FOH engineer Mark Archibald used a pair of UPJ-1P compact VariO loudspeakers as reference monitors for the mix coming from the Yamaha PM5D digital console and bound for 20 MILO cabinets and14 M3D-Sub directional subwoofers.
The urban sound was pumping at the Coca-Cola/Verizon Wireless/Hot 107.9/Fox 5 stage, where the non-stop party played host to Black Eyed Peas, Public Enemy, Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte, Whodini, Biz Markie, Slick Rick and more. FOH Jeremy (Kong) Barfield, also flying a PM5D digital desk, opted for a pair of UPM-1P ultra-compact wide coverage loudspeakers as his reference monitors, while the musicians busted their moves through a rig of 12 M3D line array loudspeakers. Processing was again provided by an LD-3 compensating line driver.
“With a festival as big and musically diverse as Music Midtown, we knew we could count on Meyer Sound for a solution for every stage,” Drukenmiller reports. “The MILOs have the high end we needed for clarity, and the 700-HP subs gave us that all-important thump. The self-powered aspect is very important too – on the 99X stage we went from two trucks of cabinets last year to one this year. And Meyer Sound is always there when we need support. (Meyer Sound East Coast Technical Support Representative) Matt Salerno did an exceptional job setting up the rigs, and (Meyer Sound Tour Liaison Manager) Buford Jones was indispensable interfacing with all the various bands’ staffs.”
MILO clearly made a favorable impression with the engineers on the 99x stage, too. “I had a great, if wet time (at the Music Midtown Festival),” reports Bloc Party FOH engineer Pete Bartlett, “but the day only reinforced my feeling that I'll be choosing Meyer MILO for our October UK tour."
John Briglevich, producer/FOH engineer for fast-rising band Red Letter Agent, was even more effusive about the bottom line for him, saying “I was absolutely delighted by the sound quality of the Meyer system; very ‘hi-fi,’ loads of headroom, and the best midrange realism and detail for vocals that I've ever heard in a festival system. I had compliments and smiles all night.”
13th July 2005
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