Delta supplies du Forum summer events
Published: MEA
UAE: Delta Sound installed the venue-owned L-Acoustics K2 PA and supplied the control package to handle the recent summer series of events at Abu Dhabi’s du Forum. Flash’s Du forum, managed by Global spectrum, hosted Arabic concerts, illusionists, a comedy night and a variety of children’s theatre shows.
The system installed is based around two hangs of eight K2 per side. Each hang was flown over two points in line with the 12m x 8m venue owned stage. Six 12XT cabinets were used as front fills while a further eight SB28 sub cabinets were installed in a horizontal arc configuration. Two hangs of four dV-Dosc cabinets were used as delays covering the seated grandstand and the system was powered using L-Acoustics LA8 racks. Four Arcs and additional SB28 subs were used as stage side fills. Once again, all powered using LA8 amplifiers.
An Avid profile console was used at FOH while Meyer Sound Galileo 616 units were used to control the outputs to the PA as well as record feeds. TASCAM playback units covered the various walk in music as well as artist requirements. Delta used a Smaart analyser system to time and EQ the elements that made up the entire system.
A Yamaha PM5DRH was called into action as the monitor console controlling the 115XT HIQ wedges on stage. Shure wireless and wired mics together with a variety of Sennheiser and DPA mics were used to cover all the instruments and vocal requirements for the events.
‘It was a pleasure to work on these shows for a couple of reasons,’ said project engineer Robert Eatock. ‘Firstly the K2 rig in the venue is easily controlled and sounds good without doing anything to it. And secondly it was inside in a very comfortable air conditioned venue.’