Canada’s premier musical instrument and gear exhibition, Cosmo MusicFest & Expo (CosmoFest), is also a celebration of live music that features performances by some of Canada’s top entertainers. This year’s outing saw Cosmo Music team up with Canadian distributor SFM and deploy an EAW Adaptive sound reinforcement system for the music.
The all-ages, free event had more than 14,000 people pre-register to visit the outdoor main stage, indoor Cosmopolitan Music Hall, instrument and gear expo, retail store, Kidz Zone, Community Zone, food trucks, and beer garden.
‘The stage was located at the far end of the area with food trucks located at the end of the audience area, roughly 225 feet back,’ explains Cosmo Music’s Professional Services Division Manager, Ryan McLeod. ‘We wanted the primary concert audience area to have solid, even coverage while maintaining a more family-friendly volume in some areas – this was easily accomplished with the EAW Adaptive system that was deployed.’
SFM Production Specialist, Paolo Bizzarro and EAW Pro Audio Application Engineer, Jonas Domkus, were responsible for the design and set up of the system. LR hangs of eight Anna modules along with eight Otto subwoofers covered the listening area with the clarity and quality the event required. Four Radius RSX208L line arrays evenly spaced along the lip of the stage completed front fill.
‘The coverage was no surprise as we had mapped it out in Resolution software first,’ adds Bizzarro. ‘I am consistently impressed with the technology. It takes a minimal number of boxes to cover the space plus we gain tons of time with load-in and load-out. Everyone wins with this system.’
‘Not only did it sound great, but we were able to keep the sound away from the neighbours and reduce reflections off nearby buildings that in the past posed challenges – a big bonus,’ McLeod concludes. ‘We are right in the middle of a residential neighbourhood, so keeping sound localised is very important to us. It’s hard not to be impressed with the entire package.’
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