Reckoned to be ‘the best sounding room in town’ by the local press, the Trustees Theater is one of four venues hosting Georgia’s Savannah Music Festival – all of which have been equipped with Meyer Sound loudspeaker systems for the event for the first time.
The choice of audio system was driven by Chris Evans, the festival’s chief audio engineer, who is responsible for system specification, tuning and supervision of the audio crew. He also mixed Mavis Staples using a Mina line array loudspeaker system in the Trustees Theater: ‘We had great results this year with Mina,’ he says. ‘The system has so much headroom that every engineer had more than they needed. It has made the Trustees a showcase venue.’
Jerry Douglass and the Earls of Leicester was the show that stood out most for Ryan McMaken, Marketing & Managing Director for the festival: ‘We’d had similar acoustic acts play the Trustees in past years, but never with that level of clarity,’ he says. ‘It was definitely transformed this year.’
The 1,250-seat Trustees Theater was fittedtwin arrays of 12-each Mina loudspeakers, four 600-HP subwoofers, and four UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers for fill. An M1D line array system was set up at the 1,165-seat Lucas Theatre for the Arts, while the 700-capacity Ships of the Sea outdoor shed featured a M’elodie line array system. The 300-seat Charles H Morris Centera used a UPQ-1P system.
Other Meyer Sound equipment at the venues included UPJ-1P, UPM-1P and UPJunior VariO loudspeakers; 700-HP, 600-HP, and M1D-Sub subwoofers; and Galileo loudspeaker management systems with Galileo 616 processors. MJF-212A and UM-1P stage monitors were also used.
First launched in 1989 and adopting its current name in 2002, the Savannah Music Festival is the largest musical arts event in Georgia, hosting musical genres that range from classical to folk, bluegrass, blues, Americana, jazz, and reggae. As in previous years, systems were provided by Rock N Road Audio with facilitation by Roy Drukenmiller and Robin Gang.
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