Clair joins Grape Harvest Festival celebrations
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With integral presentation assistance from Fabián Giordano of Sonamos Audio, a key Clair Brothers partner in Argentina, the live demo at Giordano’s location to Argentine production company Merino Producciones Técnicas was a great success. “This was not just a demo,” explains Ricardo Pegnotti, audio division director at SVC, “it was an event attended by several recognized audio professionals from the region.”
Merino Producciones Técnicas is well known and respected throughout the region. Known best as being the provider of equipment and live production in recent years of one of the National Grape Harvest Festival. It was with this festival, and many other upcoming shows, in mind that the decision-makers at Merino Producciones and the technical team of the Government of Mendoza, (the organizers of the festival) listened with great interest to the Clair Brothers C12 demo and ultimately made the decision to make a significant purchase.
The complete set purchased by Merino Producciones includes 32 x C12s along with 12 dual, 18-inch Clair Brothers iS218 subwoofers and a three-point integral mounting system that allows several configurations, including the ability for them to be hung on top of the C12 linear array.
Amplification consists of four racks, each composed of three Clair Brothers / Lab.gruppen CB-PLM 12K44 and a CB-PLM 20K44 amplifiers with control and monitoring by Lake digital signal processing. The system is completed by a dozen Clair Brothers 1AM+ stage monitors.
Thousands attend the grand opening of the National Grape Harvest. The Central Act, the gigantic grand finale, staged in the Greek Theatre, is a spectacular show of dances, artistic representations, light and sound. This entire show is witnessed by the 20,000 people and by an additional 50,000 that gather in the surrounding hills.
“The sound this year was by far better than ever,” notes Pegnotti. “The Clair Brothers C12 line array system came through as expected, and well beyond. With this momentous equipment acquisition by Merino Producciones Técnicas, Clair Brothers will accelerate its much-welcomed expansion to new horizons across Latin America.”
(Jim Evans)
