SINGAPORE – MediaCorp Radio’s 75th anniversary event, “MeRadio Rocks The Marina!” featured more than 25 acts for eight hours of music at the Marina Promontory. Sound contractor Showmakers Pte Ltd. – hired to provide a sound reinforcement system for the 5,000 capacity event – supplied loudspeakers from D.A.S. Audio.
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SINGAPORE – As part of MediaCorp Radio’s 75th anniversary, more than 25 local acts took to the stage Nov. 5 at Marina Promontory for better than eight hours of non-stop music for a capacity of roughly 5,000 people. A sound reinforcement system consisting of loudspeakers from the Aero Series 2, Avant, and Road catalogs of Valencia, Spain-based D.A.S. Audio was placed into service.
Singapore-based Showmakers Pte Ltd, with more than 15 years of event production experience and owners of a DAS Audio Aero 12A system, was contracted to provide sound services for MeRadio Rocks The Marina!
Juan Luis Garcia, D.A.S. Audio Asia’s Managing Director, said, “We have an Aero 50 system in Singapore that is frequently used for touring throughout the Asia Pacific region and we certainly couldn’t leave Singapore, our home market, short-handed, so we worked together with our local partner Showmakers, to assemble a system well suited for this event.”
The system Garcia referred to included 16 D.A.S. Audio Aero 50 3-way, large format line array elements—flown eight enclosures per side for the left-right house mains. For low frequency support, these clusters were augmented by 16 LX-218CA powered, high performance subwoofers that were ground stacked in a left-right sidefill configuration with eight enclosures per side. To provide sidefill coverage for the artists onstage as well as coverage for those audience members immediately in front of the stage area, three clusters—each containing four Aero 12A powered, 2-way, mid-high line array elements—were deployed. The left-right sidefills were placed at the far left and right sides of the stage while the center hang provided frontfill.
The on-stage monitor setup included 8 D.A.S. Road 15A powered 15-inch, 2-way stage monitors and another 4 Road 12A 12-inch, active 2-way stage monitors. A D.A.S. Audio Avant 118A powered horn-bass subwoofer was used for drum fill.
While most of the loudspeaker systems were self-powered, the large format Aero 50s were driven by a contingent of Lab Gruppen’s flagship FP 10000Q 4-channel power amps. For amplifier monitoring and control, a Lab Gruppen NLB 60E NomadLink Bridge and Network Controller was placed into service while D.A.S. Audio’s DSP-4080 4-input / 8-output DSP-based audio processor handled loudspeaker management chores.
The concert included performances by Singapore’s top bands including singer/songwriter Don Richmond, Matthew & The Mandarins, Heritage, Douglas Oliveiro, Jack & Rai and more.
Francis Tay, Showmakers’ Project Director, said, “The system that we, in conjunction with D.A.S. Audio, assembled really showed its versatility with all the different acts and their wide variety of musical styles.”
Jolin Lee, from D.A.S. Audio Asia marketing and sales, echoed Tay’s enthusiasm. “Being part of a MediaCorp event in the sparkling new Marina Bay area was, without question, a great showcase for our large format line array Aero 50 system. The MeRadio Rocks The Marina! concert was also a good opportunity for some of the best local bands and artists to experience a D.A.S. sound system, especially with the newly arrived Road stage monitors, which are new to the Asia region.”
For additional information about Showmakers (S) Pte Ltd, visit the company online at http://www.showmakers.com.sg/.
