DAS Live - Vortice AV

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DAS Live - Vortice AV
D.A.S.
Live
Viña Rock / Altavoz / Primavera Sound
Festivals India / BamaJam / FIB / Supercross Dortmund / Low Cost
Cosquin / Rototom Sunsplash / Dortmunder Music Week
EN
English
D.A.S. “Live”
Introduction
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D.A.S. “Live”
Introduction
The D.A.S. systems continue their unstoppable ascent in
live sound. From massive music festivals to major sporting
events, clients around the world have put our systems
to the test. Throughout endless hours of operation, in
adverse ambient conditions and in countless operations
of set-up and tear-down, D.A.S. systems have proven to
be a very wise investment. Exceptional performance,
high reliability, quick rigging and a space saving
truck-pack are just a few of the reasons that have made
them the choice of professionals demanding impressive
sound and road worthiness.
We’ve been alongside our clients and their sound
systems. D.A.S. engineers have travelled the globe
to provide technical support or when needed, just a
helping hand. They’ve used their in-depth knowledge of
live sound and their unique insight of D.A.S. products
to make sure that each and every event has been a
rewarding experience for everyone involved. Supporting
our products and the professionals who use them is a
significant attribute and we realize its importance in
forging long-term relationships.
“D.A.S. Live” highlights the events and the people who
have made them a reality. We sincerely appreciate their
commitment, their loyalty to D.A.S. and above all, their
passion for live sound. We thank them for their generosity
in giving us the opportunity to be a key part of the “great
moments” in live sound.
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D.A.S. “Live”
Viña Rock / Albacete (Spain)
Photos courtesy of Roberto García / Diego López
Native Art
in Albacete
D.A.S. was back for the second year running
at Viña Rock in Albacete with its Aero
systems, which performed flawlessly
throughout the inclement weather to bring
the festival’s loyal fans an unforgettable
festival experience.
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The name Viña Rock was created in 1996 when a group
of young music lovers met with Villarrobledo’s Culture
Councilor to organize a local “native-art” music festival,
basing the name on the area’s over 32,000 hectares of
vineyards. For 16 years the Annual Viña Rock Native
Art Festival in Villarrobledo, Albacete, has served to bring
together different cultures and groups with a range of
musical styles in an event that highlights an eclectic mix
of artists and performers. Rock and reggae met metal
and electronic over the course of this year’s four day
festival, and more than 200,000 spectators descended
on Villarrobledo this year to enjoy the explosive line-up,
which included national and international headliners like
Barricada, Ojos de Brujo, Rosendo, Huecco and the
legendary Barón Rojo.
D.A.S. “Live”
Viña Rock / Albacete (Spain)
The Equipment
LEGENDARIO AND VILLARROBLEDO
(side by side stages)
PA Tops: 36 Aero 50 line arrays in 3 hangs of
12 units each.
Side Fill: 3 Aero 12A powered line arrays stacked on
2 LX-218A powered subwoofers, per side.
PA Subs: 36 LX-218A powered subwoofers,
3 stacks of 12 units in a cardioid configuration.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage montors.
Front Fill: 10 Convert 12A powered systems
+ 4 Action 12A.
Delay: 2 delay towers 18 Aero 50 line arrays each tower.
Digital Processing: DSP-2060A and DSP-4080.
Creative Setup
Sound reinforcement company Acústica teamed up with
D.A.S. Audio for the sound installation. The team opted to
install D.A.S. systems on the two main stages, Legendario
and Villarrobledo. Because of the stages’ side-by-side
setup and their alternate use, sound technicians got creative
and installed the sound for both stages in a rarely used
configuration. Setting up a central formation to be “shared”
by both stages, the Legendario stage left PA formation was
the right PA formation for the Villarrobledo stage during its
alternative use. Spectators could thus enjoy their favorite
artists with powerful, resounding and clear sound (despite
the inclement weather), provided once again by D.A.S.
professional audio systems.
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D.A.S. “Live”
Altavoz / Medellin (Colombia)
Something for Everyone
in Medellin
D.A.S. Systems played a key role in making
Altavoz, one of Columbia’s biggest festivals,
into a huge success. Festival organizers were
completely satisfied with the results, the
bands were pleased with the performances
and top quality sound, and the crowd loved
every minute of the three day festival.
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Music enthusiasts of every popular genre had the
opportunity to enjoy live performances of their favorite
artists at Colombia’s Altavoz festival, which celebrated
its eighth anniversary this year. Roughly 80,000 fans
packed Medellin’s Estadio Cincuentenario - a large
multipurpose arena and surrounding grounds that
serves as home to a variety of sports and entertainment
events - to see their favorite performers live and up
close. The lineup included Mexico’s alternative rock band
Plastilina Mosh and Latin Grammy Award-winning
rockers Molotov, the English punk band The Adicts,
as well as Argentina’s Bajo Fondo Tango Club. The
three-day festival made Medellin history as more than
35 bands crossed the stage to bring the crowds the
best in alternative rock, hip hop, heavy metal and punk.
Entrance to the event was completely free and the entire
festival was a huge success for organizers, bands, and
the thousands of fans.
D.A.S. “Live”
Altavoz / Medellin (Colombia)
The Equipment
PA Tops: 32 Aero 38A powered line arrays, 16 per side.
PA Subs: 12 Aero 182 subwoofers + 12 LX-218A
powered subwoofers in stacks of 12 per side.
Front Fill: 4 Aero 12A powered line arrays.
Side Fill: 10 Aero 12A powered line arrays.
Monitors: 10 Road 15A powered monitors.
Delay: 2 delay towers with 4 Aero 50 line arrays
+ 3 Aero 182 subwoofers each tower.
Massive Response
The sound reinforcement system assembled for the huge
crowd was no small undertaking. Medellin-based Hangar
Musical—whose technical producer Santiago Velez
headed the installation at Altavoz—deployed a sizeable
loudspeaker setup consisting of units from the D.A.S.
Aero and Aero 2 series. “The greatest difficulty with a
festival like this is the variety of genres the system had to
accommodate—not to exclude the requirements of the
various artists,” Velez reported. “This is where a flat, well
balanced system is essential in order to please everyone.
This is precisely why the DAS Audio system was a perfect
choice.”
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D.A.S. “Live”
Primavera Sound / Barcelona (Spain)
Coherence,
Eclecticism
and Innovation
Festival lovers know that when the weather
starts to get warm it’s time to get ready for
Barcelona’s Primavera Sound, a series of pop,
rock and dance music concerts that the city
holds each Spring. This year, new sound
limitations highlighted the versatility and
adaptability of the D.A.S. Aero Series 2
systems.
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Barcelona has hosted the Primavera Sound Festival
since 2001. Venues are set up across the city – from the
central Arco del Triunfo to the beachside Forum – and for
five days Barcelona converts itself into the epicenter of
spring music festivals. More than 100,000 music lovers
descend upon the Mediterranean city for this “must
attend” event that promotes coherence, eclecticism and
innovation, and the stages set up at the Arco del Triunfo
and the Forum see constant traffic over the course of the
festival. Thousands of fans packed into these two outdoor
venues to see 2012 headliners like Nacho Vegas, Black
Lips or Richard Hawley (Arco de Triunfo) or Absynthe
Minded, Astro or Lovely Bad Things (Forum).
D.A.S. “Live”
Primavera Sound / Barcelona (Spain)
Limited But Unmistakably “Live”
D.A.S. Audio Event Engineer and head tech for the event
Joel Damiano ran the sound installation at the Arco del
Triunfo and Forum stages this year. Adaptability was crucial:
the sound system had to work for performances ranging
from rock and indie pop to jazz and electronic music. New
sound laws created an additional challenge for the sound
technicians, who knew that they couldn’t let the limitations
affect sound quality. D.A.S. Aero Series 2 systems met
the rigid requirements perfectly, providing superb sound
quality and keeping that “live” feeling, while working within
the restrictions of the new law. As Damiano reflected, “the
technicians adapted better than what was expected, as
they are all aware that avoiding hazardous sound pressure
levels is good for everyone.”
The Equipment
ARCO DEL TRIUNFO STAGE
PA Tops: 24 Aero 50 line arrays, 12 per side.
PA Subs: 18 LX-218CA powered subwoofers,
9 stacks of 2 units configured as an electronic arc.
Front Fill: 6 Convert 12A powered systems.
Side Fill: 3 Aero 12A powered line arrays stacked
on 2 LX-218A powered subwoofers, per side.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage montors.
Delay: 2 delay towers with 12 Aero 50 line arrays each.
Digital Processing: DSP-2060A and DSP-4080.
ADIDAS ORIGINALS STAGE
PA Tops: 16 Aero12A powered line arrays, 8 per side.
PA Subs: 12 LX-218A powered subwoofers,
6 stacks of 2 units.
Front Fill: Aero 8A powered line arrays.
Side Fill: Aero 8A powered line arrays.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage monitors.
Digital Procesing: DSP-2060A and DSP-4080.
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D.A.S. “Live”
India Festivals / Pune (India)
Photos courtesy of Navin Devnani / Kunar Kakodkar
The Best of
the Best in India
Thanks to top-notch production quality and
an exciting lineup, artists and audiences
agree that India’s three-day Bacardi NH7
Weekender and the Eristoff Invasion Festival
are two of the best festivals around.
The second edition of the Bacardi NH7 Weekender, voted
“India’s best music festival” by CNNGo, was celebrated
for three days at the Lawns near Magarpatta City, Pune.
Five stages and a host of other attractions brought in over
25,000 fans who packed into the seven-hectare space for
this year’s festival. Basement Jaxx and Imogen Heap
headlined an impressive lineup that represented some of
the best in rock, metal, indie and ethnic fusion.
At Amanora Park Town, the second installment of this
year’s Eristoff Invasion Festival took place with one the
world’s foremost music makers, DJ David Guetta, as the
show’s headlining act. Bakshi (aka Dualist Inquiry) started
the festival off right with his opening set, which gave the
artist a chance to expose his music to newer audiences
in India. But it was Guetta who made the night with his
chart-topping hits like When Love Takes Over, Gettin’ Over
You and Sexy Bitch that had the festival’s capacity crowds
celebrating in a big way.
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D.A.S. “Live”
India Festivals / Pune (India)
A Perfect Match
Both festivals were organized by Only Much Louder,
who contracted Sound & Light Professionals (SNL
Pro) of Mumbai—a major provider of sound reinforcement
systems—to provide the sound system for both events.
The sound team decided to deploy D.A.S. Audio Aero 50
large format line array loudspeakers; rugged and adaptable,
the Aero 50s are the ideal choice for huge outdoor venues
like the Lawns and Amanora Park Town. “This is the best
D.A.S. System I have heard and you can quote me on that,”
reported Hassane Es Siahi, an audio engineer and FOH
system operator for David Guetta at the festival.
The Equipment
BACARDI NH7 WEEKENDER
PA Tops: 16 Aero 50 line arrays, 8 per side.
PA Subs: 12 LX-218A powered subwoofers,
6 units per side, stacked.
Side Fill: Aero 28A powered systems.
ERISTOFF INVASION
PA Tops: 24 Aero 50 line arrays, 12 per side.
PA Subs: 28 Aero 218 Sub subwoofers,
14 units per side, stacked.
Delay: 2 delay towers with 6 Aero 50 line
arrays each.
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D.A.S. “Live”
BamaJam / Alabama (United States)
BamaJam 2012
Thrives With Major
Headlining Performers
Allstar Audio Systems meets this year’s
logistical and technical challenges head on
for this massive sound project and three-day
show that was created to celebrate the human
spirit through music
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For three wild days and nights in June BamaJam 2012
fired up the area just north of Enterprise, Alabama with
an impressive display of lights, video and music. The
multi-genre festival is held on the 1,600 acre grounds of
BamaJam Farms, where over 35,000 music enthusiasts
from all over the south eastern United States converged to
revel in the sounds of more than 50 of the biggest acts in
the industry that included the Zac Brown Band, Sheryl
Crow and Kid Rock. Despite the inclement weather on
opening day fans packed the huge festival grounds at night
to rock to country music headliners Tim McGraw and
Eric Church. With three stages spread across the festival
grounds—one of which was a double stage that alternated
acts on each half—along with a wealth of lighting and video
displays, the logistical and technical aspects of bringing
BamaJam 2012 to life were nothing short of massive.
D.A.S. “Live”
BamaJam / Alabama (United States)
Large-Scale Collaboration
Smyrna, Tennessee-based Allstar Audio Systems,
Inc. President and founder Mike Borne was hired as
production manager to handle all staging at BamaJam:
sound, lighting, video, cameras, loading docks, technicians,
stage crew, and backline. Backed by the professionals at
MSR - Mobile Stage Rentals, 14 trucks of stages and
production equipment were rolled in to make the festival
happen. “Numerous people on the crew were impressed
with D.A.S. Audio’s hardware,” Borne continued. “The
line arrays’ hardware is all fully integrated, so not only
did the systems go up and tear down quickly, they also
conserved space and made for very efficient truck pack.
This entire show was a huge undertaking and yet we
erected everything, including stages, in three days and it
came down in one.”
The Equipment
MAIN STAGE
(side by side stages)
C STAGE
PA Tops: 28 Aero 50 line arrays, 12 per side with
a center cluster of 4 units.
PA Subs: 8 Compact 218A powered subwoofers.
PA Subs: 24 LX-218A powered subwoofers,
12 units per side stacked.
Front Fill: 20 Aero 8A powered line arrays systems.
PA Tops: 20 Aero 38A powered line arrays, 10 per side
D STAGE
PA Tops: 8 Aero 28A powered line arrays, 4 per side.
PA Subs: 4 Compact 218A powered subwoofers.
Side Fill: 16 Aero 12A powered line array systems stacked
on subwoofers.
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D.A.S. “Live”
FIB / Benicasim (Spain)
Photos courtesy of Iñigo De Amescua / Maraworld
A Perfect Cocktail
of Sun and Fun
Four days, four stages, and more than 100
artists have turned the Festival Internacional
de Benicasim (Benicasim Music Festival),
better known as FIB, into one of the best
summer music events on Europe’s festival
circuit.
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Though especially popular among British fans, the FIB
festival brings in “fibbers” from all corners of the world
with its perfect combination of sun and fun: four nights of
concerts top nine days of camping at a festival that includes
not only music but art, theatre, cinema and dance that spill
onto the streets and beaches of the Benicasim. Upwards
of 40,000 fans descended upon the idyllic Mediterranean
venue for this year’s festival, where notable artists and
groups like Dave Clark, La Habitación Roja and Damian
Schwartz played at the huge Trident Senses stage, while
groups as diverse as Howler and Totally Enormous
Extinct Dinosaurs rocked fans at the FIB Club stage.
D.A.S. “Live”
FIB / Benicasim (Spain)
Close Collaboration
While Benicasim may be synonymous with FIB, large music
festivals are quickly becoming synonymous with D.A.S.
Audio Aero Series 2 line array systems. Sound at both
the Trident and FIB club stages was handled by sound
reinforcement company Acústica, with close collaboration
from Joel Damiano, D.A.S. Audio Event Engineer and
the company’s head tech at the FIB. The team knew that
the Aero Series 2 systems, the top choice for artists and
technicians at large events like FIB, could stand up to the
festival’s rigorous schedule. The systems deliver powerful,
superb sound with huge throw capacity, ideal for events like
these that draw in crowds by the thousands.
The Equipment
TRIDENT SENSES STAGE
PA Tops: 28 Aero 50 line arrays, 14 per side.
PA Subs: 16 LX-218CA powered subwoofers,
8 stacks of 2 units configured as an electronic arc.
Front Fill: 6 Convert 12A powered systems.
Side Fill: 3 Aero 12A powered line arrays stacked on
2 LX-218A powered subwoofers, per side.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage monitors.
Digital Processing: DSP-2060A and DSP-4080.
FIB CLUB STAGE
PA Tops: 20 Aero 50 line arrays, 10 per side.
PA Subs: 12 LX-218A powered subwoofers, 8 stacks
of 2 units configured as an electronic arc.
Front Fill: 6 Convert 12A powered systems.
Side Fill: 3 Aero 12A powered line arrays stacked on
2 LX-218A powered subwoofers, per side.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage monitors.
Digital Processing: DSP-2060A and DSP-4080.
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D.A.S. “Live”
ADAC Supercross Championship / Dortmund (Germany)
Decibels, Jumps
and a Passion
for Motorcycles
European Supercross fans descended on the
German city of Dortmund to attend an event
that has become a classic in the gripping
world of motorsport. D.A.S. products were
able to provide powerful sound and perfect
word intelligibility even amidst the roar of the
motors.
Over the course of the championship more than 28,000
visitors packed into the Westfalenhallen exhibition center in
Dortmund, which was transformed into a complicated track
designed to showcase the world’s best Supercross racers
as they made the complicated look easy. It was an exciting
weekend that combined the hard-core competitiveness of
Supercross with freestyle acrobatics.
The covered elliptical-shaped pavilion was filled with close
to 10,000 spectators each day. Fans could watch the track
racing in close detail thanks to an array of LED screens
hung in the centre of the venue as well as enjoy musical
clips, announcements, commentary, information, interviews
and the awards presentation that closed each show.
The quality of sound, noted by organizers and spectators
alike, was made possible by Lars Schnier, who worked
hand-in-hand with Soundart GmbH & Co KG, LasertecShowlaser and HWS Veranstaltungstechnik.
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D.A.S. “Live”
ADAC Supercross Championship / Dortmund (Germany)
The Challenge of Dortmund
The engineers that worked in the German city faced no
easy task: their challenge was to achieve completely
uniform 360º sound coverage, taking into account that the
distance of the spectators varied from 20 to 45 metres. But
the most important thing was to ensure that the amplified
sound could be heard over the roar of up to 10 motorcycles
competing simultaneously and the cheers almost 10,000
enthusiastic fans.
The Equipment
Main PA: 24 Aero 50 line arrays in 4 clusters of 6 units.
16 Aero 12A powered line arrays in 2 clusters of 8 units
and 16 Aero 28A line arrays in 2 cluster of 8 units.
Under Balcony System:
24 Variant 25A distributed around the balcony perimiter.
Digital Processing: 4 Lake LM 26 processors
and DSP 4080.
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D.A.S. “Live”
Low Cost / Benidorm (Spain)
Photos courtesy of Low Cost Festival
72 Hours
of Non-Stop
Entertainment
Benidorm’s Low Cost Festival is the party
of the summer in Alicante. Bookended by
the Opening Beach Party and Closing Beach
Party on Benidorm’s Levante beach, this
four-day rock, pop, indie and electronic
music festival was non-stop fun for the
thousands of festival-goers who descended
on Benidorm this past July.
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For the third year running the Benidorm Low Cost Festival
has combined all the ingredients that make for an incredible
festival experience: affordable tickets, three days of
incredible live music, free parking, beach access, nearby
camping, even a VIP Pool. The festival has quickly gained
in fame, becoming Spain’s fourth largest festival in just a
few short years.
Over 18,000 fans flocked to Benidorm’s Ciudad Deportiva
Guillermo Amor this year to see the more than 30 artists
representing the best in rock, pop and electronic music.
For their only concert in Spain, British rock band Suede
headlined on Low Cost’s opening night, while a host of
bands and DJs—including British rock bands Placebo and
Kasabian, the world-renowned Belgian pair 2ManyDJs,
and up-and-coming group Citizens!—kept the party going
until the early hours of the morning.
D.A.S. “Live”
Low Cost / Benidorm (Spain)
The Equipment
BUDWEISER STAGE
PA Tops: 24 Aero 50 line arrays, 12 per side.
PA Subs: 24 LX-218CA powered subwoofers,
12 stacks of 2 units configured as an electronic arc.
Front Fill: 12 Aero 12A powered line arrays.
Side Fill: 5 Aero 12A powered line arrays flown,
2 LX-218A powered subwoofers, per side.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage monitors.
Digital Processing: DSP-2060A and DSP-4080
LOWER STAGE
PA Tops: 24 Aero 50 line arrays, 12 per side.
PA Subs: 24 LX-218CA powered subwoofers,
12 stacks of 2 units configured as an electronic arc.
Music for All Tastes and Tendencies
Benidorm’s Low Cost Festival presented a unique set of
challenges for the sound team. An event and audience
of this magnitude couldn’t be contained in just one area,
so two stages were set up on the venue’s grounds. Each
stage required at least five different sound setups each
night, and it was here that the D.A.S. Audio systems really
showed their chops. Thanks to the easy handling and
adaptability of the D.A.S. Aero 50s sound techs were able
to keep the setup between performers down to a minimum,
guaranteeing that the party never stopped for Low Cost’s
tens of thousands of fans.
Front Fill: 6 Aero 12A powered line arrays
+ 6 Aero 8A powered line arrays.
Side Fill: 3 Aero 12A powered line arrays stacked on
2 LX-218A powered subwoofers, per side.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage monitors.
Digital Processing: DSP-2060A and DSP-4080.
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D.A.S. “Live”
Cosquin / Cordoba (Argentina)
D.A.S. Audio Systems
at the Cosquín Folk
Festival for the Sixth
Year Running
11,000 fans attended Cosquín’s annual
Folklore Festival, where large format D.A.S.
Aero 50 systems shared the stage with a
range of the industry’s most important artists
and performers.
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This year marked the 52nd annual celebration of
Argentina’s Cosquín National Folklore Festival, and
D.A.S. professional sound systems were once again on
hand to provide top notch sound for the spectators who
packed into Latin America’s most important folk festival.
Renowned artists including Jorge Rojas, Soledad
Pastorutti and León Gieco took the main stage at
Cosquín’s Próspero Molina plaza over the course of
Cosquín’s nine “lunas” (moons), as the festival evenings
are called. Marti Audio once again headed the sound
installation for the event for the sixth year running and, as in
previous years, D.A.S. line array systems were selected for
the project. The pressure was on: the festival is broadcast
live both nationally in Argentina as well as in neighbouring
countries. To guarantee flawless sound the huge 50-metre
wide stage and surrounding plaza was fitted out with an
army of Aero 50 line array systems.“Since we had such
great results we repeated the same set up as last year,”
added Ariel Marti, company director who designs the
distribution of the equipment used at Cosquín every year.
D.A.S. “Live”
Cosquin / Cordoba (Argentina)
The Equipment
PA Tops: 24 Aero 50 line arrays, 12 units per side
PA Subs: 24 LX-218R subwoofers flown 12 per side.
Front Fill: 12 Aero 8A powered line arrays.
Out Fill: 12 Aero 50 line arrays.
Side Fill: 12 Aero 12A powered line arrays.
Drum Fill: Compact 115 + LX-215A powered subwoofer.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage monitors.
Digital Processing: Dolby Lake Processor.
D.A.S. Road Series: An Instant Hit
A new addition this year was the Road Series monitor in 12”
and 15” models, which, as Ariel Marti attests, were a big
hit: “We had a great reaction to the Road Series; the artists
demonstrated their enthusiasm for the system, and this is
music to our ears.” Putting on the Cosquín National Folklore
festival every year requires a combination of technical factors
that depends on many people, with shared responsibilities
and loads of teamwork. Ariel Marti himself summed it up:
“Each year presents us with a new challenge. We have the
advantage of already being familiar with the festival, but we
still work hard to improve each year.”
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D.A.S. “Live”
Rototom Sunsplash / Benicasim (Spain)
Photos courtesy of David Sandoval / Grego Acebedo / Luca D´Agostino / Rototom
A Multi-Cultural Celebration:
25,000 People a Day
from 96 Countries
Rototom Sunsplash is one-of-a-kind.
Europe’s largest reggae festival with
an incredibly diverse international following
has only taken place three times in Spain, but
pulled in a more than 25,000 festival-goers
a day for over a week in August.
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The 19th Rototom Sunsplash, Europe’s largest reggae
festival, returned to Benicasim in August to offer reggae,
ragga and dancehall music over a jam-packed eight days
that included much more than just concerts. A diversified
supporting program of internet and social networking, an
open-air market, camping, an international selection of
food and drink, beach access and open-air workshops
was enjoyed by the thousands of fans that descended on
Benicasim from 96 different countries around the world in
an astounding display of diversity and global spirit. The
festival has served as Europe’s extension of the traditional
Jamaican Reggae Sunsplash since 1994 and over a
hundred international artists brought Caribbean flavor
and beats to the Mediterranean venue this year. Concerts
started at sunset when the five different areas—a Main
Stage, Dancehall, Dub Station, Ska Club, and Freeyard—
not only welcomed the most important names in reggae but
gave up-and-coming talent a chance to shine.
D.A.S. “Live”
Rototom Sunsplash / Benicasim (Spain)
The Equipment
PA Tops: 24 Aero 50 line array, 12 per side.
PA Subs: 24 LX-218CA powered subwoofers,
12 stacks of 2 units.
Front Fill: 4 Aero 12A powered line arrays.
Side Fill: 3 Convert 15A powered systems stacked
on 2 LX-218A subwoofers per side.
Drum Fill: 1 Aero 12A line array stacked
on 1 LX-218A powered subwoofer.
In Fill: 3 Convert 15A powered systems.
Monitors: Road 12A, Road 15A powered stage monitors.
Digital Processing: DSP-2060A and DSP-4080
Hundreds of Artists
for Thousands of Fans
With artists hailing from countries as diverse as Jamaica,
Japan, Spain and Puerto Rico, Rototom posed the daunting
task of having to adapt to a multi-genre artist lineup that
reached into the hundreds. Additionally challenged with the
festival’s multi-venue setup, sound techs opted for D.A.S.
Audio to bring perfect, precise sound to this multi-cultural,
multi-genre festival for the first time. The robust D.A.S.
systems easily withstood the relentless Mediterranean sun,
providing superb, consistent sound for Rototom artists and
concert-goers.
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D.A.S. “Live”
Dortmunder Music Week / Dortmund (Germany)
Legendary Acts
Rock Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany’s 8th largest city, in an
ideal place for a music festival. Known as the
municipal territory’s “green metropolis” with
its abundance of waterways and green spaces,
the city also boasts the Westfalenhallen
multi-purpose exhibition hall, site of this year’s
Dortmunder Music Week.
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For six days in July, Dortmund hosted an international roster
of some of the biggest acts in rock for the second annual
Dortmunder Music Week. A different band was featured
each night in a lineup that included such legendary names
as the American groups Manowar and Incubus, England’s
Mike & the Mechanics, and Germany’s own Adoro. Just
weeks before the opening night organizers were scrambling
to find the event a home: originally booked at Dortmund’s
Signal Iduna Park football stadium, last minute scheduling
conflicts resulted in an urgent search for venues. Yet the
late change to Dortmund’s iconic Westfalenhallen 3A
multi-purpose exhibition hall did little to deter thousands
of concert-goers from descending on the city to see their
favorite bands perform live.
D.A.S. “Live”
Dortmunder Music Week / Dortmund (Germany)
Providing the sound
for the World’s Loudest Band-Manowar
Established rental company Headroom Media Service
headed the sound equipment supply and setup for the
Dortmunder Music Week. Led by Andreas Adelhofer,
the sound team relied on D.A.S. Aero systems to meet
Manowar´s distinct need for power and versatility, ensuring
the packed Westfalenhallen 3A venue a one-of-a-kind
musical experience. On hand to provide factory technical
backup was the D.A.S. Audio Deutschland Support team
with Beni and Hauke Hartmann providing their vast
experience with D.A.S. Aero systems.
The Equipment
PA Tops: 14 Aero 50 line arrays, 7 per side
PA Subs: 18 LX-218A powered subwoofers,
12 stacks of 2 units.
In Fill: 3 Aero 12A powered line arrays.
Monitors: Road 15A powered stage monitors.
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D.A.S. “Live”
The Stars of Live Music
The stars of live music
These systems have been put to the test in venues the world over withstanding the sun,
rain, humidity and long working hours with unwavering performance. Truly peerless,
designed to dominate the world of sound touring, they have proven time and time again
that the new generation of Aero systems is unstoppable.
the unstoppable line array
With extraordinarily compact cabinets, this entire series is
manufactured in birch plywood and finished with the durable
Iso-Flex paint. The trapezoidal cabinet design provides a
“seamless” front baffle for improved array performance and
the rigging system makes it easy to achieve a wide range
of curvatures.
Aero 8A, the most compact of the series, permits easy
handling, yet these units are easily configured into powerful
arrays.
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Aero 12A, our medium-sized format, offers an
unprecedented level of features, including digital signal
processing and a high level of acoustic output in a cabinet
designed for ultimate convenience.
Aero 50, the large format line array system is externally
powered and offers the utmost efficiency, combining low,
medium and high frequencies transducers in the same unit.
Robust and powerful at the same time, ready to kick off
the tour!
D.A.S. “Live”
The Stars of Live Music
Road Series
The ultimate
on-stage performer
The Road stage monitors have been created with maximum
convenience for the performer in mind. They have a twoway, powered configuration and have been designed to be
compact and discreet without sacrificing power or sound
quality. The Road 12A model has a 12” speaker and the
Road 15A has a 15” speaker.
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Combining performance and reliability, the versatility of
these powered units lies in their capacity to be deployed
as a main system or as support equipment in a wide range
of applications. The on-board amplification, complex
waveguide design and advanced digital signal processing
provide both the power and control required for all types of
sound installations.
Subwoofers LX
Resounding bass
in two formats
The powered versions with double 18” and 15” (models
LX-218CA and LX-215A, respectively) have been deployed
extensively in live events. The “R” version is equipped with a
rigging system so that units can be suspended frontwards
or backwards, facilitating cardioid configuration.
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