Having taken a large Martin Audio WPL loudspeaker system in 2021, prominent hire company ProRent quickly followed up its initial purchase with a further acquisition in readiness for the coming events season. ‘They really needed a larger system for big outdoor events and for general hire use,’ reports Tijana Milovanovic, of Bosnia & Herzegovina distributor SD Sistemi, who supplied both.
The sale had been initiated in February 2020, but the global pandemic brought a summary halt to proceedings. In the end ProRent committed to the system on brand reputation alone, in time to fire it up for the first time in the Borik Sports Hall in Banja Luka for Croatian artist Massimo Savić.
Here, ProRent fielded 12 WPL per side, with SXH218 subwoofers and XE500s – all powered from iKon touring racks. Having received full set-up and operational training from the SD Sistemi technical team – as well as active support from their in-house engineers – the show was an unqualified success.
The event was followed at the same venue a month later when pop singer (and former Eurovision Song Contest winner), Marija Serifovic, performed to around 4,500 people, with ProRent’s Dejan Vučković mixing the sound at front-of-house. Again the company fielded 12 WPL enclosures per side, run in two-box resolution from iKon amplifiers, with eight WPC per side as out fill and front fill (also driven in two-box resolution). These were complemented by six SXH218 subwoofers per side, arranged in end-fire configuration.
ProRent has further large-scale concerts lined up both for WPC and WPL in coming months at the Castle Banja Luka, including Moto Fest and performances by regional pop group and singer, Dubioza Kolektiv and Gibonni, in front of more than 10,000 people. And when the festival season kicks, in will be supporting regional folk singer Dragana Mirkovic where 5,000 are expected to assemble at the football stadium in Sokolac (near Sarajevo), and a three-day Summer Garden rock festival in Prijedor (80km from Banja Luka), which is expected to attract 3,000 people each day – one of several festivals lined up during the summer.
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic SD Sistemi – based in Banja Luka – is working to build visibility of Martin Audio in Bosnia. ‘And I think we have been very successful in that,’ Milovanovic continues. ‘Everything in the entertainment industry stopped for almost two years and now we must make up for lost time. We will be using our own demo showroom regularly for promotion and training purposes.
Meanwhile, ProRent – who are Bosnia’s largest and most versatile sound rental company – says that it couldn’t be happier with the acquisition, and according to production manager, Marija Gavrić, is the first company in the entire territory to own a WPL system. Certainly the company has a full calendar of events running through 2022, where the Wavefront Precision systems will continue to be put through their paces.
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