SELANGOR, MALAYSIA — The audience for the annual Citrawarna festival, as well as the dancers themselves, heard music through a large system of Meyer Sound MILO curvilinear array loudspeakers. The show presented a number of challenges to sound reinforcement. "This event is the cultural and dance event of the year in Malaysia, with a huge variety of different dances and dancers performing," said Frankie Lau, systems engineer for SES Sound Electronic Services of Selangor, who provided the sound system for the show. "In addition to the live music before the show, we used a huge amount of samples and recorded music. The area we provided sound to was the size of a football stadium, with more than 20,000 people in attendance. We were faced with a very wide coverage angle, and also had to deal with the show being broadcast live on national television."
Lau built the system for the event around 48 MILO cabinets and 24 700-HP subwoofers, with a Galileo loudspeaker management system as the central controller. "The great thing about using a self-powered system like this is that you can lose the amplifier racks in order to save space, which makes it very easy to change configurations as the need arises."
Lau designed the system configuration using Meyer Sound's MAPP Online Pro software to determine proper loudspeaker placement and positioning.
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