Richmond, VA (November 10, 2026)—The Iron Blossom Music Festival has its remit down cold: Show music fans a good time with two days of great music and sound to match. Handling that last item in late September was local production company Soundworks of Virginia, tackling sound duties at Midtown Green, just as it has since the event was founded four years ago.
Ensuring all in attendance could hear headliners LCD Soundsystem and Jack White, Soundworks made ample use of its Martin Audio Wavefront Precision (WP) sound systems—a P.A. it knows well, as the company was the first adopter worldwide of the flagship WPL line array in 2019.
Since then, the company has fully embraced the Wavefront Precision platform. From an initial investment in 24 WPL elements and 12 SXH218 subwoofers, Soundworks’ inventory today stands at over 120 Wavefront Precision elements across the WPL, WPC, and WPS ranges, alongside 52 SX-Series subwoofers.
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With that in mind, for Iron Blossom, the two stages were served by WPL on the Main Stage and WPC on the second stage. The Main Stage comprised two hangs of 14 WPL, with six WPS elements acting as front fills, and 16 SXH218 subwoofers deployed in a castellated array. On stage, 12 XE500 wedges provided foldback, with the entire system driven by 28 Martin Audio iKON iK42 amplifiers.
Meanwhile, the second stage featured two hangs of 10 WPC as mains, supported by four WPS elements for front fill and 12 SXH218 subwoofers, all powered via nine iK42 amplifiers.
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System design and calculations were handled by Soundworks’ Head Engineer Bryan Hargrave, using Martin Audio’s Display 3 software. “We took good measurements the first year, and luckily it hasn’t changed substantially,” he explains. “In the second year, when the delays went away, we made the PA throw a little further, but the shape of the venue hasn’t changed. Display reliably provides accurate predictions, so we’re really only tuning on site for changes in temperature or humidity.”
Across the two-day event, music fans got what they wanted, and more Iron Blossom is already in the works. “I think everybody walked away happy,” Hargrave confirms. “All the comments I heard were people saying it sounded great.”
