MUNSTER, Germany – A live touring version of a series of German radio plays based on American teen detective novels was supported by a Meyer Sound system with MICA and M'elodie line array loudspeakers. Called Die Drei ??? und der Seltsame Wecker – Live and Ticking, the tour traveled throughout Germany and drew crowds of up to 13,000 people.
Produced as an immersive, multi-media tour, the multi-channel sound system used for Die Drei ??? worked with other staged elements including a detailed lighting design and foley artist making live sound effects. The tour's producers, Bucardo GmbH, enlisted mb-media Engineering and Design of Hamburg to handle the technical requirements, with Pool Group GmbH implementing the production.
Although the sound system configuration varied by location, the core setup included two hangs of 12 MICA line array loudspeakers per side, with eight M'elodie line array loudspeakers as outfill. An additional eight UPM-1P and six UPA-1P loudspeakers supplied near- and center-fill. Six more hangs, each with up to 20 M1D (10 each directing to front and back), along with UltraSeries loudspeakers as downfill, provided the multipoint channels.
Bass power was supplied by 700-HP subwoofers, with processing and signal distribution handled by a Galileo loudspeaker management system comprising three Galileo 616 processors.
FOH engineer Thorsten Maier of mb-media credited the Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers as mixer-friendly. "After System Engineer Thomas Mundorf set up the system, I did not need much time for sound checks," Maier said. "I found I could use most of the setup from previous shows, except for a few specific feedback frequencies and some artistic decisions."
Once shows were underway, "the Meyer Sound components exhibited perfect voice intelligibility, even with up to seven different channels playing simultaneously and with audio clips mixed with the voices," Mundorf added.
In addition to Maier and Mundorf, other key members of the tour's sound team included technical director Andreas Barth of mb-media, monitor technician Christian Käufl, and Pool Group GmbH technicians Frank Uhlig and Benjamin Stillecke.
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