German band PUR bets on ArrayCalc for their concert at Veltins Arena

The concert held this year by the German band PUR at germany's Veltins Arena has counted on their sound infrastructure with the V Series of d&B, using ArrayCalc's ArrayProcessing function.

German music band PUR has re-elected the Veltins Arena, an indoor football stadium where the Bundesliga plays Schalke club 04 by Gelsenkirchen, for your concert. In the four times he did it before, used a circular scenario, with audience all around, and each time with a different PA system.

"This is a very reverberating space in which many PA systems and different configurations have been used to overcome it. And this time we've opted for the V Series of D&b Audiotechnik, using ArrayCalc's ArrayProcessing function, with which we have achieved the best result we have achieved before", explains systems technician Frank Muller.

The V-series of d&b is an online arrangement for medium-sized stays, however they decided to use it at the Schalke stadium. "For pavilions that have a capacity greater than 10.000 people, we used to hang delays. therefore, normally we had sixteen V-TOP per side for the main clusters and eight in the lower area of the room for delays. The V Series is very light and the load allowed by the rigging structure is twenty-four boxes (838 kilos including the structure)", comments Muller.

"Tonal balance is one of the aspects that we took into account here. To work in a room of this size with projection distances up to 105 meters without any delay system you have to counteract the limitations of online arrangement systems. For example, the bass/means of the systems tend to be strong in the first twenty meters and cloud the overall tonal balance. Similarly, intelligibility is reduced by distance. For d&B, the concert at the Schalke Stadium was a great opportunity to experience in a 360-degree circular stage setup in a large-scale venue", clarifies Werner Vier Bayer, Product Director of d&B.

When examining the listening area in ArrayCalc, you can identify the area where the frequency response is balanced and select it as the target strategy for all other areas. Below, using the AP function, personal filter settings are calculated and transferred to each particular channel of the amplifier, so that the specific strategy can be applied throughout the entire listening area.

AP allows you to control all array behavior in listening areas within your given mechanical addressing area. "The advantage of AP is that it allows us to polish uniform spectrum parameters (frequency response) and the spatial parameters defined (SPL with distance), in addition to the reinforcement parameters, resulting in superior total directivity that accurately matches public areas, as well as continuous and homogeneous HFC compensation. All of this, without losing the sonic signature of d&(b) or compromise the dynamic range of the system", Bayer continues.

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