ROME–Around half a million fans steamed to the Coliseum in Rome to enjoy the Telecomcerto concert featuring Billy Joel and Bryan Adams, sponsored by Telecom Progetto Italia and the City of Rome. The audio and lighting equipment for both concerts was supplied by Italian company MMS srl. of Solaro (Milan); Maddalena Tronchetti Provera and Vittorio Quattrone of the Four One Music company organized the event. Texim are the official Italian distributors of the Electro-Voice, Midas and Klark Teknik equipment that comprised the entire sound reinforcement system.
The event location included one of the most famous streets in Rome – the one running from the Coliseum to the Imperial Forums – along which sound reinforcement was provided for one kilometer. Alessandro Galli was responsible for event production, with support from Diego Bertuzzi. Milan-based Stage System supplied the stage and the layer for the delay towers. The EASE projections for the audio system were made by the Texim Technical Department in collaboration with Giovanni Colucci and Massimo Sartirana of MMS, who made the final projections for the whole system.
The main system was comprised of 56 Electro-Voice X-Line enclosures (24 x Xvls + 4 x Xvlt + 28 Xsub) flown from four X-Line grids. The delay systems included 112 XLC127+ speakers suspended in the layer towers with 32 Xsubs and 12 XLC118 subs.
Final fine-tuning was performed by PA manager Massimo Sartirana and resident sound engineer Domenico Carnuccio, relying on the SMAART program.
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