Project Description
Ceremony event for the UAE 46th National Day in Abu Dhabi, in a purpose-built environment for an audience of 1800 people, involving live performers, and immersive sound and video. A complete L-ISA system, including frontal, surround, and overhead speakers, was deployed for the celebration on December 2nd, 2017.
Sound Design Solution
- The scene system was made of 6 arrays of nine KARA plus 1 array of nine K2, with a central cluster of 24 SB28 subwoofers.
- The extended system included 4 arrays of eight KARA.
- A complete surround system was designed by using 10 arrays of six KARA for the sides and rear, plus additional seven X8.
- An overhead system was set-up on long cables, made of 33 X8 speakers.
- Finally, ARCS II and X8 were used for front-fills.
That’s a total of 228 boxes from L-Acoustics entire range.
Story
Scott Willsallen, Audio Director and Sound Designer, suggested to producers Done+Dusted to create a 3D soundfield environment to enhance and activate the creative concept of the show. L-ISA was selected as a platform of choice. The main challenges were the dimensions of the audience area and the width of the Scene.
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Everyone was amazed by the sound of the event. It was the most creatively exciting project I’ve done.
Scott Willsallen, Audio Director and Sound Designer, Auditoria