Global Audio Systems provided audio, lights and staging for the New York World Pride Event at New York City’s Javits Center, the first time the event has been held in the United States. Featured artists included Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Kygo, Brandy, Billy Porter, J Hart, DJ Paulo and the casts from Stomp! and Cirque Du Soleil.
Discussing the unique concert/dance festival/rave, Global Audio’s Jason Ojeda explains, “the event was held in the Javits Center’s main halls A and B for over 15,000 people. We built the main stage that was 200 ft. wide. We also brought in the world’s leading lighting designer Steve Lieberman from SJ Lighting, a longtime friend who did a fantastic job. The lighting system had over 250 moving fixtures with a lighting truss that was 390 ft. at its widest span.”
Asked about the audio system, he responds, “we had 12 flown hangs of L-Acoustics V-DOSC, six hangs with nine boxes per hang across the front in a stereo configuration––every other stack was left-right, left-right for a stereo image––with 48 L-Acoustics SB28 and KS28 subs ground-stacked in front of the stage. The delays were 192 ft. back over the crowd with six hangs of dV-DOSC and 12 L-Acoustics dV subs. We also had 18 L-Acoustics Karas on top of the sub stacks for front fills.”
“Global Audio mixed the show and it sounded absolutely amazing,” he adds. “There was uniform coverage for the whole crowd with no drop off areas. The balance from front to rear and side to side was extremely smooth. Bottom line, everyone was pleasantly surprised at how good it could sound at Jacob Javits Center and the way we distributed audio in the space allowed it become a more intimate experience and achieved the goal of sounding like a night club.”
