HAMPI, India – The annual Hampi Utsav 2010 music festival in Karnataka at Hampi, a UNESCO World Heritage site, took on special significance this year, uniting with the 500th anniversary celebration of the Vijayanagara emperor, Sri Krishnadevaraya's ascendancy to the throne. Three regional soundcos supported the three-day event with audio gear from Harman.
V&P Sound Pvt. Ltd., Sound & Light Professionals and SoundEffects.Com collaborated on sound reinforcement for the three-day event, which featured more than 300 artists performing on a 200-foot-by-100-foot main stage. The performances included traditional music and dance forms done by Hema Malini, Mysore, Manjunath and Pandit Jasrat, among others, and the audience was estimated at 100,000-150,000 on each of the three days.
The primary concert stage was equipped with JBL VerTec line arrays. The main left and right array hangs included 24 JBL VerTec VT4889s and 16 VT4880A subwoofers, powered by Crown I-Tech 5000HD, 9000HD, and 12000HD amplifiers. The system relied on JBL's V4 DSP presets, developed to take advantage of Crown's LevelMAX multi-stage limiting in the I-Tech HD amps.
Additionally, 16 VerTec VT4888s were used for outfills and center fills, with eight JBL SRX 728s in place as the center-located ground based subwoofers. A dbx DriveRack 4800 handled loudspeaker output-zone processing. A Soundcraft Vi6 digital mixing console was deployed at the FOH location.
Vishnu P, director, V&P Sound, said, "I've been impressed with the Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers, and the LevelMAX processing is great. Having sophisticated three-stage limiting, including long term thermal protection, allows for higher Peak and RMS thresholds and this ultimately translates into more SPL output."
Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers feature a user-inspired DSP engine, OmniDriveHD, co-developed with BSS Audio. The processing engine features Linear Phase FIR filters.
"We congratulate all three companies on what was a highly successful event," said Sushil John, Harman regional sales director for Central Asia.
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