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For this year's Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado, Stage Sound/Audio Visual America supplied an all-Meyer sound system similar to the one they supplied last year, with a few important additions. Both sound systems were designed to accommodate the changing conditions at the festival: acts ranging from electric rock bands to solo acoustic performers to a cappella gospel groups, temperatures ranging from warm to cold, wind, rain, and crowds entering, exiting, and shifting their positions over the course of the festival's four long days.
Last year, Mitch Hodge, audio systems manager for Stage Sound, designed and installed a distributed sound system that included delay towers and SIM® System II microphones spread throughout the festival seating. SIM allowed Hodge to monitor changes in the sound system as temperatures dropped, crowds moved, and the wind picked up, died down, and changed direction. Using information provided by SIM, Hodge was able to adjust the system quickly to compensate for these changes. The sound remained strong and clear throughout the festival.
Hodge used the same distributed design again this year. The main system featured six MSL-10s, ten MSL-3s, six UPA-1Cs, twelve 650-R2s, and ten USW-1s. Hodge also used two rings of delay towers. The inner ring was equipped with MSL-2As; the outer ring with MSL-3As.
What was new this year were Meyer Sound's new self-powered speakers, MSL-4s and MTS-4s, which Hodge agreed to beta-test at the festival. He installed two MSL-4s as delays aimed at the festival's vendor area. "The MSL-4s have a long throw and excellent intelligibility," says Hodge. "They worked very well." Hodge was also impressed by the power and clarity of the MTS-4s, which were installed as side fills in another area. "They sounded pretty sweet," he says. "I definitely want to use MTS-4s again."
The festival took place June 15 through June 18. Performers included Wolfstone, Bruce Cockburn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sam Bush and John Cowan, The Five Blind Boys from Alabama, Shawn Colvin, and James Taylor.
Festival management were so pleased with the results of the Meyer sound system, that Hodge and Stage Sound have been invited to provide sound for next year's festival.
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