GERMANY — Audio rental company BLL-Veranstaltungstechnik, based in the city of Krefeld, Germany, has undertaken a number of summer events with its Flex Array system complementing its large inventory of Turbosound Aspect and NuQ loudspeakers.
The company provided sound reinforcement for many elements of the annual Loveparade festival, which all but consumes the city of Dortmund each year. As well as a wide array of Aspect, NuQ and TSW cabinets featuring on a range of the colorful (and noisy) floats that form the event’s centerpiece, the company deployed a major Flex Array rig at Circle of Love, one of the many outdoor stages.
Featuring performances by Moby, Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin and other DJs, the system comprised nine flown Flex Array cabinets and 12 ground-stacked TA-880L per side.
Flex Array and Aspect systemswere also used at Nature-One — one of Germany’s premier dance music events — held at Pydna, the former U.S. missile base near the town of Kastellaun. With three arenas (one inside a nuclear-proof bunker) reverberating to the beat of no less than 54 Aspect and TSW cabinets between them, it was the outdoor USB-Hardtechno arena which saw 12 Flex Array and six TSW-718 bass cabinets per side.
“We often work in long, narrow rooms and so the 75° coverage is perfect for many of the events we service,” said BLL-Veranstaltungstechnik owner Sascha Schmitz. Most other line array systems have 90°, 100° or 120° coverage, which is simply too much for us — using those, a significant proportion of the sound would be going straight into the side walls, which can cause real problems with reflections.
“However, as we proved with Loveparade and Nature-One, the coverage of Flex Array also works very well outside. It performed excellently and, although the audio quality is slightly different to Aspect, Flex Array delivers particularly good low-mids for the small size of the cabinets.
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