Swedish PA company DM Audio AB has enjoyed a busy outdoor season using their Martin Audio W8L Line Array rig.

Their major project was to undertake a summer installation at the amusement park and open-air museum, Skansen, where the W8LC was powered by QSC amplification.

Aside from being the first open-air museum in the world, Skansen is also a zoological park specialising mainly in Nordic fauna. Founded in 1891, it is located on the island of Djurgården, a royal park near the centre of Stockholm.

Although Skansen owns its own Apogee system they decided to rent the Martin Audio system (eight speakers per side), which has been matched with six QSC PowerLight amps. The sound was controlled using two Rane RPM 26z processors.

Working with Skansen’s Per Ekstrand, DM Audio’s system, which is used for almost all the entertainment taking place in the park, has proven highly successful, according to DM’s Lars Wern.

The highlight, however, has been the live broadcast TV show Allsång på Skansen — a singalong/audience participation show which transmits every Tuesday night.

Attracting crowds of around 30,000 the show will have run seven times by the end of the summer and is hosting many top Swedish artistes, including Per Gessle of Roxette and
the ARK.

The Martin Audio/QSC combination was again in action — this time at the Quark Festival in Norway — when DM Audio, for the second year running, provided equipment to local PA company PA Compagniet (PAC) in the shape of a 16-box W8L line array (with 16 WSX subs) powered by a pair of QSC PowerLight PL9.0’s.

Earlier in the summer, DM Audio had collaborated with Universal Baltic Sound (UBS) to produce this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Riga, Latvia — featuring Martin Audio’s newly-created perspex wedge monitors (see page 21 for full report).