The main stage at Kosmonaut Festival in Saxony recently gave Complete Audio to field its Martin Audio MLA system – demonstrating the event’s dramatic growth sine being set up in 2014 by the band Kraftklub.
Staged in Chemnitz as a mini-festival – on a flatbed truck, with speakers on sticks – Complete Audio has been servicing the event from the outset. ‘Since all the major acts were bands that we take care of on the road, MLA was the obvious system,’ Complete Audio MD, André Rauhut, explains.
He adds that each year a secret major act takes over the headline slot – for 2016 it was German hip-hop act, Die Fantastischen Vier, while Casper appeared as a special guest for his only live performance of the year.
The sound system was designed by Benny Franke, comprising two main hangs of 11 MLA boxes and two MLD Downfill per side, with front fills handled by Martin Audio W8LMD line array tops. The subs consisted of a broadside array of 20 MLX boxes along the front apron – a challenging deployment for Complete Audio, since the stage is built on a slope at the Rabenstein Reservoir site.
Complete Audio technicians optimised the sound so that all sound levels were comfortably achieved: ‘We used Martin Audio’s latest Beta version of Display, so we could recalculate the measurements using the newest options and algorithms,’ says Rauhut, who also confirmed that this met the approval of the promoters, who were said to be extremely happy with the sound quality.
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