MELBOURNE, Australia — For Cold Chisel’s performance at Festival Hall here, sound engineer Greg Rosman used the JBL V5 VerTec presets that come with Crown VRACK, an amplifier management rack system solution, to optimize the audio heard via the venue’s in-house JBL VerTec PA system.
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The VRACK features three built-in Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers, immediately providing an easy-to-configure, plug-and-play solution that eliminates the need to build amplifier racks.
“The VRACKS have made a big difference to the sound of the VerTec,” commented Greg Rosman. “They allow us access to the new JBL VerTec V5 presets and with V5 it’s like having a new VerTec system all over again!”
The VerTec V5 DSP presets offer “significant improvements” in horizontal coverage due to using higher order, asymmetric filters, and improved sound quality via phase linearization. The presets also offer improved system response to equalization, far-field summation and throw, and inter-array interaction/summation and stereo imaging.
“The VerTec V5 DSP is the next step forward in delivering the best sound possible,” added Greg. “We found that the high end was much smoother and the low-end response was great. Paul Bauman, Director of Tour Sound Product and Application Engineering for JBL, has done a great job of tidying up their presets to make the VerTec sound significantly better. There’s no denying that JBL has really got it right with the V5.”
The PA system in the Festival Hall consists of two strips of six VT4889 line array cabinets and side hangs of two strips of three VT4889, plus some sub bass and front fill.
“Really they’ve had a noticeable performance upgrade without buying new equipment!” said Greg. “The software upgrade was done really quickly – it really is great value for anyone who uses VerTec.”
