Billed as Texas’ first large-scale Halloween-orientated electronic dance music festival, Something Wicked featured international, national and local DJs, including Zedd, Nero and Flux Pavilion. Dallas-based production company Onstage Systems supplied the audio set-up for the festival’s main stage, which features a number of L-Acoustics systems.
A full stadium sound package was needed, and Onstage provided it for the main stage with an L-Acoustics K1 stadium system – including main hangs of ten K1 elements per side with 36 SB28 subwoofers and four Kudo compact line source cabinets for front fill.
The monitor system supplied used eight L-Acoustics dV-Dosc modular line source cabinets and four dV-Sub subwoofers. There were also 30 LA8 amplified controllers. At FOH, a Yamaha PM5D provided for digital live mixing, with two Lake LM 44 digital audio system processors.
‘We have been using L-Acoustics since 1999 and have not come across a better range of enclosures,’ says Eric Thomas, the Onstage Systems K1 audio tech who worked the show. ‘Now, adding K1 to our inventory, has raised the bar once again. This system is incredibly transparent; it is like mixing on hi-fi studio monitors. The axis of coverage is most impressive as well as the throw capability. We look forward to deploying the K1 on more of our large scale festivals.’
Onstage Systems President Hyacinth Belcher also reports that the system has been used recently on the TCU Stadium grand opening concert with Blake Shelton, and the Sun City Music Festival in El Paso. It will be put to use on upcoming festivals and shows, such as George Strait at the Alamodome and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, she adds. Belcher plans to use the new gear on many music festivals next year, and hopes for some concert touring possibilities as well.
Onstage Systems focuses on providing quality customer service and the best equipment as part of its business model, Belcher says. Founded in 1978, the full-service concert and special events company supplies national and local markets with sound, lighting, video and production equipment and services.
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