The concert was made possible through the recent renovation of the sound system within the Arena Stozice. The largest of its kind in Slovenia, the multi-purpose indoor arena is usually used for basketball, handball and volleyball games. The Arena Stozice is also designed to host cultural events alongside these sporting events.
The PA system in the Arena Stozice ¬- a space not known for being the Holy Grail of acoustics - was implemented by Slovenia's largest Electro-Voice rental company, Akustika Primozic of Ljubljana. "While planning this venue, we knew that the arena reverberates a lot and we could not overshoot a predefined SPL," reports Jan Primozic, manager of Akustika Primozic.
"The trick was to put in enough PA and fly it at the proper height, which is not always possible." Akustika Primozic used Electro-Voice's XLC DVX and Xsub line array elements for FOH and XLE very-compact line array elements as side-hangs. The front rows were addressed by ZxA1s.
Primozic adds, "The rest is just enough headroom from the amps, exclusively P3000s, CP2200s and CP3000Ss. Processing was done via two Dx38s, which sound great and are easy to operate. The audience was clearly also satisfied with the sound."
Support for the installation was provided by Electro-Voice distributor Prostt, who sent Bozo Namestnik and David "Jarc to assist in tuning the PA.
(Jim Evans)
