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The concert is described as the largest business school cultural festival
INDIA: Bestt Sound System supplied
a sound reinforcement system
for use at the most recent Chaos
Festival in Ahmadabad, Gujarat. The
festival was organised by students of
the Indian Institute of Management
(IIM), with which Bestt Sound System
has been associated with since its
inception. The rental company had
supplied the IIM with equipment in
previous years, but this time round
the focus was on sound. The result,
according to the company was ‘sonic
quality that was simply brilliant’.
The four-day event is billed as
India’s largest business school
cultural festival. This year it featured
an impressive artist line-up including:
Coshish – A Progressive Rock Band,
DJ Aqueel, preliminary rounds for
the Femina Miss India Contest, Coke
Studio featuring Ram Sampath and
Sona Mahapatra, Sonu Kakkar and
Salim-Sulieman.
Forming the main audio system
were own hangs comprising DAS
Aero 50 line array modules coupled
to Lab.gruppen PLM 10000 and
PLM 20000 ampli ers. For audio
Madi. This con guration allowed for
digital sharing of the stage racks
between the consoles and facilitated
gain tracking for the monitor console.
Aftab Khan, FOH engineer for
Salim-Sulaiman, commented on the
setup during the event: ‘I am amazed
by the sound of the system and the
headroom the DiGiCo D5 provides.’
Fellow sound engineer Madhur of
Coke studio was equally complimentary:
‘Thank you for the excellent sound at
the IIM gig. Thanks for all the support
and greetings to your entire team Vaibhav, Amit and Roshan.’
CHINA: Sennheiser China has
supplied a K-array audio system
for the opening ceremony of
Beijing’s 2014 International
Akhal-Teke Horse Association
Special Conference. The project
was competed under strict
time constraints, with the open
nature of the arena making the
unobtrusive positioning of the
speakers a dif cult task.
The ceremony took place at
The Imperial Ancestral Temple
in Beijing’s Working People’s
Cultural Palace. For the
landmark occasion, an audience
of 10,000 people witnessed
Turkmenistan’s President
Gurbanguly Berdimuhavedov
present a Ferghana Horse
to China’s Xi Jinping. The
presentation was followed by
a colourful performance, with
sound reinforcement provided by
K-array KR402 and KR202 column
line-array speakers, and KK52s
positioned at either end of the
arena.
One of the key requirements for
the event was that the system
remained largely out of sight,
and did not detract from the
performance. Although already
sleek in pro le, the speakers were
disguised and as a result ‘almost
blended into the scenery’.
The KK52s were used as monitors
and positioned at the foot of