Speakers Rise to the Top at Creamfields

WOODINVILLE, WA–This year, a record crowd of 45,000 made it's way to the Creamfields festival, a UK dance event, in its new home of Daresbury Estate in the heart of the Cheshire countryside. Headlining the massive main stage this year were the Prodigy, and as headline act, the audio system was designed to meet the specification on their rider. This included a powerful EAW KF760 line array system from UK rental specialists, and long-term Prodigy suppliers, ML Executives.

MIAMI–At a recent special appearance at a large Miami Verizon wireless store, Wyclef Jean was so impressed with sound of a Dynacord Cobra system that he extended his set, turning a brief public appearance into a free concert. Bayshore Sound of Tampa, FL, handles sound for Verizon in-store events across Florida. For Wyclef Jean's outdoor appearance at the busy Miami location, Bayshore wanted to take the sound reinforcement spec to the next level. Having recently demo'd and ordered a Dynacord Cobra system, they felt Cobra would be perfect for the job. That said, their EV & Dynacord dealer pointed them in the direction of Miami-based Drummer Boy Sound, who supplied Bayshore with an interim Cobra rig, complete with EV QRx monitors and RE-1 wireless mics, a Midas Venice console and Klark Teknik EQs.

BERKELEY, CA–A record 37,000 people attended the 11th annual edition of the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival at the Rose Hall Resort & Country Club of Montego Bay to see and hear a star-studded bill featuring artists such as Patti Labelle, Al Green, John Legend, Nestor Torres, Shaggy, Morgan Heritage, Air Supply, and Bo Diddley. The technical team of Jamaica's John Swaby Entertainment, the festival's audio provider, faced the dual challenges of an event featuring groups of widely varied instrumentation and musical genres being presented in an outdoor environment. In order to deliver even coverage and consistent quality across all of the styles slated to be heard on the resort's golf-course-cum-festival-grounds, the Swaby Entertainment team relied on a system of self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers.

SINGAPORE–After several years hosting the annual Bay Beats festival, a concentrated exposition of local south-east Asian talent featuring five "Indie" bands a day for three days, this year a decision was taken by Singapore's Esplanade Theatres on the Bay to purchase a large format line array to cater for the festival's audio needs.

PITTSBURGH–The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Pittsburgh is a historic theatre that hosts over half a million visitors a year. Named the "Number One Auditorium in the US" by Billboard and ranked third in Pollstar's 2004 Top 50 list of theatre venues worldwide, the 2,800-seat Benedum Center provides turnkey production services to everyone from first-run national Broadway tours to regional groups like the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the Pittsburgh Opera.

TORONTO, ONTARIO–Republic, a busy Vancouver Club on Granville has revamped their entire sound system with Adamson Speakers. Republic is open seven days a week; during the day Republic is a busy pub and sports bar, and at night it features live DJs and entertainment transforming itself into a dance club.

OXNARD, CA–L-ACOUSTICS' has completed its P-Series line of self-powered amplifiers with the release of a self-powered subwoofer. The addition of a self-powered subwoofer SB15P for extended LF response in bi- and tri-amp configurations widens the performance range of the P series for small to medium format applications.