Now among Italy’s best established electronic and visual arts festivals, Nextech has hosted international EDM acts since 2006. For the past four years, the event has been held in the Cavaniglia Hall at Florence’s Renaissance Fortezza da Basso. With Germany’s Chris Liebing in the top slot, Emporio On Stage handled the sound.
To ensure the huge number of fans who flocked to the Florence heard why Liebing’s name has become a byword on the international EDM and Techno scenario, Emporio On Stage – the first Italian rental firm to purchase Outline’s GTO system – the Scandicci-based audio contractor called on its recently expanded its Outline stock of 12 Mantas 28 line array systems.
‘The main system comprised two stacked arrays of six Outline GTO per side and two more arrays, each with three GTO per side on in-fill duty,’ explains company owner Angelo Catoni. ‘We installed eight Outline DBS 18-2 subs and 4+4 Outline LAB 21 HS infra-subs for the bottom end at the stage and, half-way down the room, we added more punch with 4+4 DBS 18-2 subs.
‘The organisers immediately realised the GTO rig had a great throw and at the far end of the 100m-long room everything was in phase, with coherent well-defined sound in both high and low frequency ranges,’ he reports.
Liebing was also very impressed with the system: Half-way through his soundcheck, he left one of his tracks playing and we walked round the large room,’ Catoni says, ‘He said it was the first time he’d heard such uniform sound so far from the stage.’
Regarding the Outline Vegas 15 CX monitors used by the artist, Catoni concludes: ‘We suggested an A/B face-off between the Vegas and the model on his technical rider – by a top manufacturer - here again he was knocked out by the sonic definition and power provided by the Vegas 15, matched with an Outline DBS 18-2 sub, and asked us to put in another pair to complete his monitor set-up.’
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