During its 10-year existence, the Women of Faith tour has drawn more than 2.5 million attendees, featuring numerous guest speakers from around the world. Each year, more than 20 cities throughout the United States and Canada host this event, which draws sell-out crowds in arenas including the American Airlines Center in Dallas, the United Center in Chicago and the Honda Center in Anaheim. This year's tour kicked off March 15 at the Alamodome in San Antonio and continues until December.
CTS Audio has been handling this project for the past eight years. For 2007 CTS designed a speaker system comprising eight line arrays containing a total of 120 Vertec VT4887A compact line array elements along with 32 VT4881ADP-AN powered arrayable subwoofers, equipped with JBL DrivePack technology.
"We typically deploy eight hangs in four quadrants in the centre of the room, with an upper truss and lower truss and video screens situated between the trusses," says Ed Crippen, senior consultant, CTS Audio. "We have three one-ton motors that support the entire PA system fly grid including the amp racks and we are deploying the subwoofers in a unique forward-steered array."
(Jim Evans)
