Top Portuguese singers Paulo Gonzo, Diogo Piçarra, D.A.M.A, C4 Pedro and Marco Paulo were among the artists appearing at Portugal’s largest live music event – the Radio Festival Party staged at Gondomar’s Pavillion in Porto. With an audience of nearly 8,000 attending, the Mega Ensaio rental company fielded 64 Next-proaudio loudspeakers.
The Next-proaudio systems included arrays of 20 LA212x three-way enclosures for main reinforcement, with 16 Next LAs418 subwoofers stacked by pairs beneath the main arrays for low-end support. Two-way LA122A Active Line Array cabinets were deployed as both side fills, in arrays of four enclosures per side, with four LAs118A Active Subwoofers in support. The monitoring included 12 Active 14-inch stage monitors LAm114xA, while front fill comprised four LA122A. The entire set-up was powered and managed using Next-proaudio LA touring racks. Next-proaudio sent a team to the venue to offer technical support and help with the final alignment of the whole system.
Mega Ensaio has worked with Radio Festival organiser on several previous high-profile events: ‘We have been working with Radio Festival for a long time,’ says Mega Ensaio’s Antonio Fonseca. ‘As Technical Director of this event, I can consider that the system has delivered a very consistent sounding show and was close to perfect. The bands, artists and Radio Festival were really satisfied at the end of the show with the sound quality.’
The Radio Festival Party was sold out, prompting the organiser to begin planning a second event later in October.
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