Pioneer Pro plays Stavernfestivalen Club Stage
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The 2019 line-up incorporated a wide range of music styles and featured leading international acts such as Swedish House Mafia, Travis Scott, Bastille and G-Eazy.
Oslo-based rental company G Production was engaged by the organisers to supply audio for the festival’s Club Stage as well as the VIP Stage and elected to deploy their new Pioneer Pro Audio XY-3B system, recently acquired from lNorwegian distributor First Audio.
John Moss of G Production added the system to his company’s inventory having been impressed with its flexibility and capacity to deliver power and detail in equal measure. Having tested the system at an earlier smaller-scale electronic music event, Moss was confident that the XY-3B would prove more than equal to this much bigger task. On hearing the system fully wound up at Stavenfestivalen, his expectations were confirmed.
“My immediate reaction was that it gave me a good ‘club’ feeling and really spoke to the purpose it was made for. It communicated exactly the vibe that you would want for a Club Stage. When we tested the system on a smaller gig just before Stavernfestivalen, what I loved about it was the fatness - that real thick, nice full club sound. I loved the way the subs give you that bit extra you want for the genre."
Translating the XY-3B experience to the bigger stage proved seamless. The G Production team pushed the system hard whilst always being confident of having plenty of headroom, satisfying the need to be simultaneously crisp and very powerful.
The Club Stage was covered by six XY-3B, four XY-2, eight XY-218HS, two XPRS-12 and two XPRS-115S whilst the smaller VIP stage utilised two XY-3B and two XY-218HS.
(Jim Evans)
