HAS Productions debuted its US East Coast-based Vue al-12 line array system at the first Marley Cup event, the brainchild of Bob Marley’s son, Ky-Mani Marley, The Dubplates and The Charleston Battery club in South Carolina.
The all-day, all-ages event brought together the football team from Marley’s hometown of Falmouth, Jamaica, with the greatest names in Reggae for an all-day, all-ages mashup at MUSC Health Stadium. The line up featured 12 bands including Kymani Marley; KJ Marley, Mix Master Mike of The Beastie Boys; The Dubplates featuring Future Fambo; King Yellowman and more. The 6,000 concertgoers also witnessed a Jamaica-versus-Charleston six-a-side all-star soccer match and celebrity shootout.
HAS teamed with Technical Event Company to lend audio support for the event, which marked the first deployment of HAS’s Charleston-based al-Class line array system. The design featured two arrays comprised of eight al-12 elements per side flown from truss towers, ten al-12SB ground-stacked subwoofers in an arc delay, and eight ground-stacked al-8 elements as side fills. A Yamaha CL5 and Midas Pro6 mixing consoles handled the main FOH mix, with a Yamaha PM5dRH serving monitors.
Approximately half of the acts brought their own sound engineers, many of whom had yet to experience VUE first-hand. Enthusiasm was high, however, with many citing buzz in the marketplace and genuine curiosity about the system – particularly following its deployment on the Kendrick Lamar’s The Damn Tour.
‘The PA ran on cruise all day and the visiting engineers were all blown away by how massive 16 boxes sounded in this soccer stadium, HAS CEO Larry Hall reports.
HAS will now take its Las Vegas-based al-Class inventory to serve REO Speedwagon at Star of the Desert Arena in Primm, Nevada, and the annual Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz and R&B Festival.
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