Florence (Italy), 26th July 2016 – World-famous London nightclub fabric has turned to the winning combination of Pioneer Pro Audio and Powersoft to assemble the sound system for its first-ever outdoor event, Lovebox Festival. Taking place on July 15-16 in London’s Victoria Park, the fabric stage is the only stage at Lovebox to commission an exclusive pro audio partner.
The fabric arena is a 2000-capacity, 38-metre round tent designed to recreate fabric’s Room One, giving party-goers the true nightclub experience in a festival environment.
Powersoft’s supercharged, compact and highly energy efficient Class D switch-mode K Series has again been adopted by Pioneer Pro Audio Manager, Alex Barrand, to deliver the high octane feeds to their 4 x 3–metre GS-WAVE dancefloor surround stacks, eight XY-218 18-inch twin bass reflex subwoofers and 12 XY-122 12-inch two-way loudspeakers. But in addition, it will take advantage of the Italian company’s unique Armonía Pro Audio Suite software for remote control and monitoring of the system, and advanced DSP. The partnership between the two brands has already proved itself in leading dance venues across the world, including the clubbing hotspot of Ibiza.
“Powersoft has been my preferred amplifier partner from Day 1,” declared Barrand. “We know we can rely on K series because the power consumption is phenomenal, the capabilities are amazing and it just gives you peace of mind. The excellent damping factor on the subs, in particular, is unbelievable.”
With their condensed 1RU form factor six K10 (2 x 2000W/8 ohms) and four K2 (2 x 1000W/8 ohms) have been specified to drive the fabric 4.1 system. “Extra subwoofers will be brought in to create more low end for the Friday Drum ‘n’ Bass night and we will be using another eight K10 for the additional infills,” continues Barrand.
“We will also run all amplifiers in AES-EBU which is a more elegant and cleaner way of doing things in terms of redundancy. Our aim is to create a real club feel environment, designed to keep people in there for extended periods.”
The installation will also take advantage of the advanced Armonía software and DSP, which will enable them to run the system live. Explaining the rationale, Alex Barrand says, “We have access from front of house so we can drop in the fills and subs as the atmosphere in the room starts to build. We are working direct with the DJs, since we are all on radios so thanks to Armonia, we will introduce additional sound and step it up bit by bit. We don’t want a massive SPL peak when the room is empty.”
Pioneer Pro Audio have also designed a special drum ‘n’ bass preset in Armonia. “This gets us ahead of the curve as we can switch in the preset at the start of the festival. This will be tuned to drum and bass on the Friday, whereas the more typical fabric club sound on the Saturday requires a greater boost in the midrange, so we will switch to ‘Preset 2.’”
Expressing his delight at the advanced deployment, and continuing relationship with Pioneer Pro Audio’s premium system, Powersoft Brand and Communication Director Francesco Fanicchi, commended the optimisation of the GS-WAVE dance system, and use of specific gain structures for the two different club nights. “In an outdoor application K series is perfect in fabric’s attempts to create the feel of a nightclub, and of course the efficiency of the amplifiers, in an environment where power is scarce, is vital,” he said.
Add this to the fact that a birch wood floor, similar to the one in fabric’s Room One is being installed to give the right kind of feedback, and the fact that the tent’s walls will be double draped with damping material to control sideways reflections and contain low frequencies, and the simulated fabric Room One environment will be complete.
It is perfectly set up for Lovebox to host a series of live acts and DJs including Ricardo Villalobos, Jackmaster and Kano.
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