As Exton project manager Ivar Ragnarsson explains, the venue was not an easy room for system designers. "The hall is rather wide and steep, and has always been a bit hard to cover with conventional speakers," says Ragnarsson. "M'elodie has perfect coverage for this venue. Because of its very tight focus, it's also really great for working with lavaliers."
The system comprised two arrays of eight M'elodie line array loudspeakers. Front-fills were handled by eight MM-4XP miniature loudspeakers, the new self-powered version of the MM-4 wide-coverage miniature loudspeaker. A Galileo loudspeaker management system provided system drive and processing.
According to Ragnarsson, Meyer Sound's self-powered feature enabled the crew to set up the system quickly in the presentation hall which is not only home to the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra but also serves as a movie theatre and a lecture hall for the University of Iceland. "The symphony held a rehearsal the day before," says Ragnarsson, "Doors opened for the event the following morning at 7am, so we had a very short time to load in and tune the system. It would have been pretty much impossible to do this with any other system."
(Jim Evans)
