Our setup had 3 DR 290’s per side. We were a little worried about SPL because of the number of people that was expected to be there. On the third the first band was expected to start at 10:00pm. At 9:00pm there were over 2000 people already there. Bill states that 6 boxes are good for 1000 people so we were still worried. There was a young girl who came out to perform there last year and used the DJ’s setup to sing on. Her dad insisted on using our PA because we had the stage. Anyway I setup a monitor and a cordless mike for her to use and we were getting our first taste of what was to come. We had plenty of overhead even with this young girl singing. At 10:00pm when the band started the crowds got even thicker. There were more than 3000 people that showed up, and all of them were standing at the stage as far back as you could see. We started playing and the SPL was 114db at the board at about 60 feet out. It was still over 100dB at over 200 feet out. Good thing because the people were that far out from the stage. I’ll post a link to the band that was there and you will see the people. Anyway I could not have been more pleased to what we were hearing. The system sounded awesome and we got more compliments from the people, the bands, and the BE for the night. Nice and clear. We seem to have no problems doing this many people with what we had. There is no way you can purchase a system that will give you the SPL and sound that the Bill Fitzmaurice rig did for the money it costs us. This all sounds too good to be true, But we had a great sound. You don’t know why it sounds better it just does. We know but the general public doesn’t. They just know it sounds good. If anyone wants to ask questions about the night or the system I would be glad to help.
Here is a photo early on in the evening before the main act came up. Here is the link to the band site also so you can see the number of people we are talking about.
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