The live CTV broadcast from the 20,000-seat Air Canada Centre featured performances from Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Sarah McLachlan and other Canadian artists. While Le Studio Mobile and LiveWire Remote Recorders handled the broadcast audio, Montreal-based Solotech took care of the sound reinforcement with an L-Acoustics K1 loudspeaker system.

The main PA used LR arrays of 14 K1 elements with three Kara enclosures for down fill. A six-element Kudo array was flown between the two K1 hangs for additional front fill, and low-frequency support was achieved with two eight-element K1-SB arrays flown adjacent to the LR arrays. All systems were powered and processed via L-Acoustics LA8 amplified controllers.

‘We knew that K1 would be ideal for the Juno Awards and it performed superbly,’ says Solotech Senior Project Manager, David Brazeau. ‘The system is highly articulate and intelligible, which was absolutely essential for the award presentations and other spoken segments. And when it comes to music, K1 is extremely hi-fi and sounded fantastic across the ceremony’s wide variety of performances.

‘As a side note, we found the Kudo enclosures to be quite helpful,’ he adds. ‘Our initial SoundVision model of the system revealed that we would need to add some front fills. However, seeing that there was a general admission area on the floor – plus the stage needed to be as clean as possible for the broadcast – we flew a Kudo array in the center and it proved to be a very effective solution.’

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