Laguna Beach, CA (September 5, 2012)—During the annual Pageant of the Masters, a summer festival designed to present both classical and contemporary art, a new L-Acoustics Kara system was used to reinforce the vocalists, speakers and a 30-member orchestra for the program.
This year’s production, known as “Genius”, focused on the works of numerous visionaries like Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci through a 90-minute show of “living pictures.”
Irvine, CA-based Micworks, Inc., which has been the outdoor festival’s audio consultant for the past two decades, supplied the L-Acoustics amplifier and loudspeaker package for the amphitheater. Hung from 20-foot truss towers on each side of the stage, left and right arrays were comprised of nine Kara enclosures flown beneath three SB18 subs, all collectively powered by a total of four LA8 amplified controllers.
“In previous years, we’ve had to position some small enclosures along the front of the orchestra pit for front-fill, plus some additional reinforcement at the back of the amphitheater to fully cover the rather long and narrow bowl seating,” says Micworks President Michael Troke. “But with just the two L-Acoustics arrays this year–even though we spread them quite wide–the sound pressure level from front to back was so smooth and consistent that those systems were no longer necessary.”
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Festival of the Arts’ Pageant of the Masters
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