Meyer Sound MILO Covers Both Sides of Viñarock Music Festival in Spain
Beginning with a few hundred music fans in 1996, the Viñarock Festival has
grown to become one of Spain¹s largest summer festivals, attracting close to
100,000 people to the city of Villarrobledo this year. The three-day event
brought together more than 90 artists ranging from hard rock and hip hop to
jazz and world beat, with two adjacent stages keeping the music going
non-stop through a Meyer Sound system for ten hours each day.
As Jorge Riego of Baeza-based Tuá Pro explains, the logistics of providing
powerful coverage across the expanse of dual stages required special care.
³The use of a single PA system for two stages created the need to cover an
area 80 meters (260 feet) wide, providing 170 meters (550 feet) of throw,
with two separate FOH mix positions. Needless to say, it was not your
typical sound system.²
Riego¹s design comprised three 15-meter (50-foot) high towers, each using 24
MILO® line array loudspeakers, with one array on each side and a third
between the two stages. Thirty-six 700-HP subwoofers were groundstacked in
pairs along the edge of the stage to cover low frequencies.
³All the band technicians were asking about the subs,² says Riego. ³The
comment I heard numerous times was, ŒI can hear it with my body!¹ It really
sounded divine.² The configuration also included eight UPJ-1P VariO
loudspeakers providing frontfill, with a Galileo loudspeaker management
system using two Galileo 616 units supplying the processing power to handle
the unorthodox configuration.
³The power of the MILO system was truly amazing,² Riego remarks. ³During the
Sociedad Alcoholica set, I measured 127 dB at FOH, and the system was
telling me I still had headroom! With Meyer Sound you really have no limits,
whether you¹re doing opera, rock or death metal.²
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