Founded in 1985, the Rock in Rio music festival has set up in its original home six times, as well as visiting Madrid, Las Vegas and Lisbon. It’s most recent outing saw it return to Lisbon for a seventh time, using a Next-proaudio sound system for the first.
Rock in Rio is one of the largest music festivals in the world, with 1.5m people attending the first event, 700.000 attending the second and fourth, about 1.2m attending the third, and around 350.000 people at each of the Lisbon events.
Held in Bela Vista Park in Lisbon, Next-proaudio set up a LA212x system on EDP Rock Street, as well as on Street Dance for the five-day event. The systems comprised six LA212x boxes along with six LAs418 double subwoofers groundstacked at each stage and complemented by a PX System as side fill on Street Dance, ten active stage monitors Lam114xA and two HFA108 as front fill on EDP Rock Street.
According Carlos Cruz, sound engineer for EDP Rock Street, ‘the system was providing consistent coverage and clarity response from front to back of the audience’.
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