Describing the recent Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride festival as ‘the perfect opportunity’ to demonstrate the power and clarity of its new Meyer Sound Leo system, DigitalSound Production Services put it into use on the festival’s main stage performances.

‘It’s a very high-profile event and a large area to cover, so we really wanted the extra punch that Leo provides,’ says DPS Production Manager, Chris Verducci. ‘It’s an all-around great choice, and the fact that we can get more punch from fewer cabinets is a huge plus. With another brand of speakers we’d need far more cabinets to get the same coverage and impact.’

For the main stage system, DPS used main LR top hangs of nine Leo-M loudspeakers with two Mica line array loudspeakers as down fill and four Mina loudspeakers below as front fill. Twelve 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements provided low-end. Twin side-fill systems each comprised two JM-1P arrayable loudspeakers over one 700-HP subwoofer, and the rig was controlled by a Galileo Callisto loudspeaker management system.

‘As DPS continues to grow, it’s important to invest in the best system we can find to offer to our customers,’ says DPS President, Patrick Whalen. ‘Leo has an exceptional sonic quality that is not debatable, but what made buying Leo an easy decision was how the system allows us to provide this much power while saving truck space and load-in and load-out time for our crew. All of this makes our service more attractive and affordable to our clients. Any way you look at it, buying Leo was a no-brainer for DPS.’

DPS also supplied Meyer Sound systems for two identical DJ stages, each equipped with eight Mica and six 1100-LFC loudspeakers.

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