NORTHRIDGE,
California – Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist, Slash (featuring Myles Kennedy and
The Conspirators) recently played a sold-out show in Poland—at the Spodek in
Katowice—with the help of HARMAN’s JBL VTX line arrays. Promoted by Metal Mind
Productions, it was the iconic guitarist’s only show in the country.
The VTX
system has taken off in Poland—as it has across the globe – and providing sound
reinforcement was PROSOUND with Music Cook supporting the event and making up
the inventory required. The sound design saw hangs of eight VTX V25 fullsize
line array elements front-facing on each side of the stage, with 12 VTX G28
subs (stacked vertically in L/C/R blocks of four). These were powered by Crown
Audio VRack 12000HD amplification systems.
To ensure
that the capacity crowd received even coverage wherever they were seated, two
hangs of six JBL VERTEC® VT4888DP
midsize line array elements were deployed as outfills, with a further eight
filling the front rows in the arena to deliver a smooth, 180-degree dispersion
pattern.
The Katowice
show proved a worthy showcase for the band to work through tracks from their
new album Apocalyptic Love. FOH engineer, Tim ‘Quake’ Mark, who was mixing the sound on
a Soundcraft Vi4 digital console, said he was delighted with the sound setup—as
did Music Cook proprietor, Irek Policht.
Speaking
of JBL’s groundbreaking D2 Dual Driver found in
the V25, Mark said, “It makes the VTX sound like no other system. It’s as if
this is the sound of the 21st century while other systems stayed in
the 20th century.”
The VTX V25 is a full-size, 3-way, high-directivity line
array element, featuring two 2000W, 15-inch Differential Drive® woofers mounted
in die-cast aluminum baffles, with four 8-inch Differential Drive midrange
transducers and three of the revolutionary D2 Dual Drivers mounted on a 3rd
generation waveguide and patented RBI Radiation Boundary Integrator® assembly.
The VTX G28 is a dual 18-inch subwoofer, employing two 18-inch transducers
featuring Differential Drive technology and is reverse cardioid-arrayable.
Providing
technical assistance and crewing duties for the two rental companies were
Daniel Dybała, Dominik Piasecki, Piotr Gilewski, Andrzej Jach, Sebastian Dudek,
Tomasz Bochenek and Marcin Kowalski.
For more information on PROSOUND, please visit www.prosound.pl
For more information on Music Cook, please visit www.musiccook.pl
HARMAN (www.HARMAN.com)
designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment
solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets — supported by
15 leading brands, including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®
and Mark Levinson®. The Company is admired by audiophiles across multiple
generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where
they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped
with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems.
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