An Electro-Voice X-Line line array loudspeaker system to provide sound reinforcement for the Xbox 360 stage at the <I>Austin City Limits Music Festival</I>.
USA - Austin City Limits Music Festival, one of the premier music festivals in the US, recently capped-off another successful year of musical festivities. Held from 3-5 October, 130 bands gathered in the Texan capital to give three full days of performances across eight stages. Robert Ausmus of LD Systems (Houston, TX) and his crew relied on an Electro-Voice X-Line line array loudspeaker system to provide sound reinforcement for the Xbox 360 stage.

The Xbox stage saw crowds of up to 35,000, and featured a diverse range of headliners, including Them Crooked Vultures - a supergroup featuring John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) - Girl Talk, STS9 and Raphael Saadiq among many others.

LD Systems deployed a main FOH rig comprising two arrays of eight full-range X-Line elements. Xn boxes were used for out-fills.

"This is our sixth year now serving the festival and every year we've used the X-Line system," says Ausmus. "X-Line is a known quantity for us and has always produced excellent results. The challenge here is that up to five bands play each day for crowds as large as 35,000 people; we need a system that delivers consistently excellent audio for all the acts, a system that sounds good with minimal tweaking."

The PA was powered by EV TG and PL series remote control amps running IRIS-Net control and supervision software. Performance was further optimised with EV's latest FIR-Drive FIR filter-based processing.

(Jim Evans)


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