Sound reinforcement for the four stages was supplied by local hire company Stage Pro sound and lights, owned and operated by Ronnie Osabel, whose says his ideal sound system is "one that goes up fast, needs little or no tweaking, offers many years of service and pleases the ears of sound techs of bands and singers - and with RCF's 4PRO system, we've found it."
Stage Pro has recently taken delivery of the 4PRO-6001 Powered 3-way Speakers, 4PRO-3002SMA powered wedge monitors, ART 322A & ART 315A. The plan is to build a premier system which offers a totally "powered" concept. Osabel explained "At the Fete de la Musique Festival, we used 8 RCF 4PRO 6001s for FOH duties, 4PRO-3002SMA powered wedge monitors for the front wedges and an ART 315A for the Drum fill."
During the set-up, which is normally scheduled to start at 12:01 a.m., they had the system up and blasting in an hour. "This is simply a plug and play system on a big scale," says Ozabel. "We did in an hour what usually takes us 2-3 hours to set up and tweak on a 3-way system with separate amplifiers. This RCF System has got set-up time and man power cost down and efficiency up."
Osabel says: "The system design is simply console Out-EQ- RCF-6001. Monitoring is as simple as well, Aux Out-EQ-RCF 3002sma / ART 315A." A week before the Fete de la Musique event, Stage Pro supplied 6 RCF ART-325A powered speakers to be stationed in SM Mall of ASIA as pocket systems, providing upbeat music during mall opening hours. The performance impressed the marketing bosses of SM so much that Stage Pro ordered four more ART-315A Powered speakers. The functionality of using the RCF ART series as an FOH speaker and as wedge monitors made it the best solution for his numerous smaller gigs.
When confirmation of Fete de la Musique came Stage Pro looked towards the bigger 4PRO-6001 & 4PRO 3002sma wedge monitors, which did not fail to impress Ronnie and his team. The system ran from 10a.m on Saturday to 5 a.m. on Sunday without missing a beat.
Mario Benipayo of Forerunner Technologies Inc, RCF's distributor in the Philippines, commented: "Stage Pro joins a growing roster of rental outfits who have taken advantage of RCF's Powered System Solution. RCF power users now include, RSL Professional Sound & Light, Summit Audio, Video Sonic, Audio Exposure, Xstatic, dBm Systems, Sound Bros and Information Society. All in all there are now more than 24 RCF powered FOH speakers in the rental arena. The RCF 4PRO 6001 is the only 3-way, tri-amplified, DSP processed point-source speaker in the market. Add to that its compact size, with all the latest neodymium drivers that RCF has developed, and you have the perfect sound system."
(Lee Baldock)
