Transforming Daytona Speedway into a sonic haven for Jeep enthusiasts and music lovers, Jeep Beach pulled Jeep aficionados to a second annual music festival to revel in off-road adventure and live music.
The line-up for the event featured artists including The Wheeland Brothers, Maggie Rose, The Wailers, Craig Morgan and headliner Lee Brice. Each artist delivered electrifying performances, served by a TT+ Audio sound system under RCF RDNet software control. ‘The new TT+ Audio GTX 12-inch box is one of the best sounding boxes I have heard in a long time,’ says Wayne Pauley, production manager and FOH engineer for Lee Brice.
Completing the system were L-Acoustics Kara components for front fill and out fill, plus L-Acoustics K2 line array modules for the delay towers.
The GTX 12 is a three-way line array module for large-scale, high-demanding touring and install applications.
‘These boxes sounded great from the moment we put music through them for tuning,’ Pauley says. ‘The high end was so clean and natural-sounding, I was actually taken aback for a moment. In these modern days where so many boxes out there have a high end that sounds “fabricated”, it is incredible to hear a box that can deliver that range in a way that sounds like it should. Kudos to you, TT+ Audio,’
The TT+ Audio set-up at the festival comprised two 11 GTX 12 mains with 18 GTS 29 subwoofers (a dual high-excursion 19-inch subwoofer module that delivers extreme SPLs). Each hang was divided into five zones of two or three GTX 12 boxes per zone, driven by two racks that each housed three XPS 16K four-channel power amplifiers – each amplifier can deliver 4x4kW continuous power at 2.7Ω with analogue/digital routing options, 32-bit internal routing and 40-bit floating-point DSP at 96kHz. The GTX 12 uses a familiar three-point style rigging, according to veteran live sound specialist Michael Lawrence, who worked alongside RCF’s Oscar Mora as the rig’s system techs. ‘Its locking piston automatically sets itself to achieve the proper splay angles when the array is hoisted so you don’t have to set the locks manually,’ he says,
A third three-amplifier rack per side drove half the GTS 29 subwoofers. Nine GTS 29s were deployed in stacks of three across the front of each side of the stage. ‘All were broadside as per Wayne’s preference, with the exception of the centre subwoofer on the innermost stacks reversed with the cardioid preset loaded,’ Lawrence says. ‘I had those set with their own mute function in RDNet so I could have the option to clean up the LF at the lead singer position for the other acts, and then mute those out for Lee’s performance.’
TT+ Audio’s GTX PA system is set to rejoin Brice when he appears as a headliner at the Lonestar Jam in Round Rock, Tennessee.
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