Wicked Solutions delivers d&b for Aegis Festival

The recent Aegis Festival featured a comprehensive AVL solution designed and installed by Wicked Solutions, a company based in Lebanon that offers professional AVL consulting services and high-end hardware rentals. The festival, enjoyed by music lovers over the course of three days, took place outdoors at Arnaoon Village, situated atop the mountains of Northern Lebanon.

Wicked Solutions carefully executed the AVL plan in coordination with the event’s stage designer and head of production, Yara Temsah. Four stages were meticulously designed and installed to provide an elevated experience. The main stage, which housed all the lighting and video equipment, was designed to create an organic and fluid structure that encompassed the dancefloor, in harmony with Arnaoon Village’s green landscape. Considering the main stage design did not incorporate trusses, black array towers were arranged to ensure a seamless integration of audio equipment into the setup. Due to challenging import conditions in the country, the Wicked Solutions team developed two audio setup scenarios in case of delays in equipment delivery. The company managed to complete a pristine setup, despite the lifts arriving within a tight margin of only 72 hours before the event.

For audio, d&b audiotechnik J-Series line arrays were chosen for the main system, comprising 12 J8 loudspeakers and eight J-SUBs. Speaker elements from the manufacturer’s xS-Series and V-Series were used for front fill, back fill and out fill, including four units each of 24S-D loudspeakers, 12S-D loudspeakers and V-SUBs. Finally, Q1 and Q-SUBs were also supplied as DJ Monitors.

“The main system utilised array processing technology which provided seamless coverage and consistent tonal balance throughout the entire venue,” commented Pascal Sarkis, 7Hertz audio system design and application specialist. “Covering a distance of more than 35m, with minimal dB loss, we used only six J tops per-side and eight J-SUBs as a sub-array. As predicted in the ArrayCalc design, even with such a small count of cabinets, we were able to maintain an excellent level over distance with no delay towers required, thanks to the array processing technology,” added the technical team at Wicked Solutions.

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