FRANKFURT, Germany — Production Resource Group (PRG), the leading staging equipment supplier for events around the world, staged its Live Entertainment Awards at Festhalle here March 20 with support from a concert system with gear from Harman Professional. The audio setup included Harman’s new JBL VTX line arrays, which served as their European debut.
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Comprising multiple Soundcraft Vi Series digital consoles, Crown’s new V-Racks with BSS Omnidrive HD signal processing and configuration and control via Harman Professional’s new workflow-based HiQnet Performance Manager software, this high-profile system deployment also serves as the European launch of JBL’s new flagship VTX line array series loaded with JBL’s revolutionary D2 compression driver to provide lower distortion and extended high-frequency response.
“It is a great pleasure for us to partner with PRG and work with Klaus Rahe, Kai Reiss and PRG’s entire production team on this prestigious event,” noted Paul Bauman, Senior Manager, Tour Sound for JBL Professional. “Having the opportunity to serve the Federal German Association for the Concert and Promoters Business is quite an honor, We are very pleased to be a Gold Sponsor of the 2012 LEA, while showcasing JBL’s new VTX system in the European public launch of our new V25 fullsize line array enclosure this week.”
To technically support the system and provide onsite application information for end-users, Harman Professional product specialists from the company’s Crown, JBL and Soundcraft brands are onsite. Veteran live sound engineer Gert Sanner, having recently joined the Harman Professional team to work closely with professional system owners and operators throughout the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region is Harman’s audio engineer-in-charge for the LEA and subsequent activities at the PRG stage during the Prolight+Sound show, March 21-24.
In addition to showcasing its most advanced, professional-grade audio technologies at the Festhalle, Harman Professional also presented products at Hall 8.0 Stand F32.
The schedule for FestHalle activities follows:
March 20th – 2012 Live Entertainment Awards Gala
March 21st, 22nd, 23rd – Multimedia light/sound/video spectacular (on the hour)
March 24th – Multimedia light/sound/video spectacular (on the hour) and Musikmesse “Drum Awards”
