LONDON – An American football game might not be a rarity in October. But this one, pitting the Chicago Bears against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, took place at London's Wembley Stadium. By the time the Bears beat the Bucs, 24-18, some 77,000 fans had also had the chance to listen to pregame shows by the Goo Goo Dolls, Noah Stewart and Katherine Jenkins. Britannia Row Productions provided an extensive Outline loudspeaker system for the event.
The audio setup included 12 arrays of Butterfly, each stacked four high on a pair of Outline Subtech subwoofers. Britannia Row's Dan Orchard headed up the project, with Kieran Walsh supervising radio, Sergiy Zitnikov handling speaker technician duties and Stefan Krista managing the stage audio for the pre-game entertainment. An additional four BRP technicians dealt with system set up, cable management, mic changes and so on.
Roger Lindsay, who has mixed sound for the event every year since the International Series first came to London in 2007, had overall control of the audio mix.
"This was the second time that we've used Butterfly for this event, and I have to say that so far, it is comfortably the best-sounding system we've had here," Lindsay said.
"Wembley Stadium is a difficult and reverberant acoustic space in which we have to achieve the best possible coverage across a very large area," he added. "The Butterfly system impressed me with its smooth response, achieved with minimal system EQ, and its excellent projection and even dispersion around the entire stadium. Remarkable audio performance in such a small package."
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