PARIS — Outline’s Butterfly Outlinearray was used at the Cité de la Musique, located in the heart of Paris, on the occasion of two concerts that were particularly demanding from a technical point of view: “Histoire de Melody Nelson” by Serge Gainsbourg and “L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches” by Jean-Claude Vannier. Sound engineers had to deal with more than 70 channels and a multitude of microphones.
For sound reinforcement, Outline’s French distributor, AUDIO2, installed a system made up of 24 Butterfly CDH 483 Hi-Packs and eight CDL 1815 Low-Packs (respectively twelve and four per side); all powered by Outline T7 digital power amplifiers. DVS 10 multi-purpose enclosures were used for the front rows of the audience and four Subtech 218 for the low frequencies.
These are the comments of Bruno Morain, head sound engineer at Cité de la Musique: “I found the Butterfly system’s performance in the theatre exceptional; I was particularly struck by the total absence of ‘aggressiveness’ and the aptitude to naturalness of its acoustic reproduction—practically speaking, I didn’t equalize above 2 kHz. The string section was pleasantly free of ‘acidity,’ a factor, which on the contrary, I’ve noticed in other situations. I had such a large reserve of dynamics at my disposal in relation to the hall that we decided to reduce the gain by means of the handy attenuators built in to the digital power amps. The evenly balanced sound when listening in various points of the halls and the coherence of the timbre were also very good.”
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