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WPL leads deployment of several hundred Martin Audio boxes at Liquicity Festival

Christian Wissmuller by Christian Wissmuller
September 11, 2023
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Drum ‘n’ bass fans were given an event to remember when the three-day Liquicity Festival was staged recently in Geestmerambacht Park in the north of the Netherlands.

Begun in 2013 the first multiple day Liquicity took place in 2017 and today the event attracts daily attendances of up to 20,000.

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Martin Audio partners DSL and Stairway Productions collectively provided several hundred enclosures, plus amplifiers and accessories, site wide. This notably included a massive deployment of WPL Wavefront Precision line arrays by DSL for the premier two performance stages—and seven separate zones in all (including the food court) spread across a site that was suitably draped and decorated for the occasion.

The main Galaxy stage saw 20x WPL left and right (in two box resolution), with 12x WPC for delays (also in two box resolution) and 21x SXH218 subs in cardioid (14 front-facing and seven back), with a further four W8VDQ for front fill and six Blackline X12 for outfill. These were powered by 17x IK42 multi-channel amps. On stage, six LE1500 were used for monitoring and two further LE1500 and a Blackline X118 were used on stage.

The second (Solar) stage saw 12x WPL stacked, with eight MLA Mini and MSX subs (as outfills). Four TORUS T1215 were used as front fill, with 20 WS218 and six SX218 subs. A further LE1500 and LE1200 wedge monitors, with a pair of X118 were used on stage, with all passive enclosures powered by nine iK42.

On the third (Lunar stage) playback was through 12x Martin Audio W8C, underpinned by 18x WSX subs. Reference monitoring was again provided from a pair of LE1500 and X118.

For the Nebula stage, sound reinforcement turned to Blackline, with a pair of  Blackline H3T+, four WS218 and a pair of X15.

To equip other areas Stairway Productions dipped into several of Martin Audio’s other successful ranges, including CDD-Live 15 (for Temple), FlexPoint FP8 (for Mirror Palace) and TORUS T1215 (for the Mobile stage) … all with complementary subs.

According to Martijn de Jong, Product Manager (Audio) at Ampco Flashlight Sales, Martin Audio’s Dutch distributor, with three tented stages—the largest a circus ‘big top’ pumping out very loud music—noise control over the wider area was the real issue.

“The two largest stages ran in cardioid setup, which worked great and made sure the people living around the festival grounds had no noise pollution. Also, Wavefront Precision was tapered off towards the back of the site so that it was fairly quiet—and this did wonders for the noise control. But the advanced control you have generally with a Martin Audio system helped contain the sound.”

Rental company DSL has wide experience with Martin Audio systems and made a D3 drawing for the main stage (in Martin Audio’s proprietary DISPLAY 3 software) mainly to visualize the performance of the sub array as much as to predict the behavior of Wavefront Precision. The cardioid set-ups, in combination with a dB(C), calculated by Event Acoustics, ensured that the event was able to stay within the confines of the permit.

For DSL, Gert Jan and Ad Gomes were project managers, and for Stairway Productions, it was Menno Smit.

The weekend, which saw Pendulum, Andy C and Dimension among the headliners, was an unqualified success. According to Martijn de Jong, it had been the first time the event had been staged with Martin Audio rig. “Despite having to build the system from the ground up, the process was pretty quick with the tools we have at our disposal in D3.”

He said both DSL and Stairway Productions received unqualified praise for the sound systems, the Liquicity promoters themselves expressing satisfaction with the sound, while Stairway Productions reported similar feedback from the areas for which they were responsible.

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