Martin Audio’s W8L Line Array was on duty at the famous Rock im Park, which was held in the German city of Nürnberg recently.

The Alternastage in Nürnberg was fully equipped with 24 of the W8L enclosures, supplied by Pave Veranstaltungstechnik of Nürnberg, in co-operation with Sirius AG. They also provided a complete array of Martin Audio floor monitors (LE 12JB’s and LE700’s).

Rock im Park is one of Germany’s biggest and best-known Festivals, and Pave have been working on the event continuously since 1998.

Over the three days this year no fewer than 27 international bands appeared on the Alternastage, including Moby, Badly Drawn Boy, Turin Brakes, The Hives, and the Dandy Warhols.
Wolfgang Geisler (of Pave) and Dirk Pingert (of Sirius) reported that every FOH technician had been impressed by the enormous output of the system.

“This was the first time we had tried the Martin Audio Line Array,” said Wolfgang. “In recent months we have demoed various line array systems, but so far the Martin line array is best in our opinion.

“The features we particularly liked about the system is first of all the handling and rigging, which is very easy and quick.
“We also liked the quality of the sound, and the fact that the system sounds very neutral, independent of the volume level. The efficiency of the W8L is very impressive — we had 12 cabs per side plus bass bins and this was really sufficient to cover a capacity of 20,000 people in the auditorium.”

Sirius have also been busy with the W8L Line Array system at a number of other German festivals. They serviced two simultaneous events — Hurricane, in the north of Germany in co-operation with Capital Sound Hire (using both the W8L and W8LC systems, and 24 x WSX subs) and Southside in Tuttlingen, which they undertook independently. Each was attended by 40,000 visitors.

Sirius also provided a further four festivals over each August weekend all utilising 24 x W8L’s with the exception of Terramoto — a huge festival in Weeze, formerly known as Bizarre, which deployed 32 x W8L’s.

The events were M’era Luna in Hildesheim (on the first weekend); Highfield, Erfurt (second weekend), Chiemsee Reggae, Chiemsee (third weekend) and finally Terramoto — which featured headline bands of the calibre of Placebo, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit.

All Martin Audio equipment was supplied by Atlantic Audio, the company’s exclusive German distributor.