Switzerland - Around 800,000 techno fans from all over the world flocked to Zurich in August for the annual Street Parade - one of the undoubted highlights of the techno calendar. In addition to the parade through the streets of the Swiss metropolis, the programme included around 100 indoor events, the biggest of which was the Music 4 Life party thrown by MTV and attended by some 13,000 ravers.

The organisers of the event entrusted production, as they had done the previous year, to MK Badensound of Renchen. A team led by Johannes Moeck deployed a full 280m of cable to connect the entire network of amplifiers and loudspeakers, which comprised 124 Dynacord V-System enclosures in four-point configurations either flown or mounted in the hall ceiling, all driven by 22 Dynacord Power H5000 power amplifiers.

"We used a similar loudspeaker configuration powered by the same amps last year," relates Moeck, "but with one salient difference: in 2006, we didn't yet have the new FIR filters. These really proved their worth this year. They were incredible, as both colleagues and the audience response confirmed. With the advent of the FIR filters, our performance once again took a giant leap forward."

(Jim Evans)


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