Metallica and the Meyer Sound Leo inaugurate Quebec Arena with an array in a circle

The American thrash metal band has first used a speakers of the Leo Meyer Sound speakers in circular disposition, Combined with 1100-LFC low frequency control elements in a TM Array configuration, During the inauguration of Videotron Center, In the Canadian city of Quebec, with capacity to 20.000 personas.

The Videotron Center inauguration, Located in the new Quebec Arena, main headquarters of this city of Canada to celebrate covered events, mainly for ice hockey and concerts, with capacity to 18.259 seating, He has had the concert of the American Metallica Thrash Metal band in the latter case, that acted before 20.000 personas.

For this concert, Metallica engineer for more than thirty years, ‘Big Mick’ Hughes, has used for the first time and in disposal circular a speaker system of the Leo family Meyer Sound, Combined with 1100-LFC low frequency control elements in a TM Array configuration.

As Hughes has pointed out, "I had never heard that amount of range in Graves (With such definition) When we play in a circular arrangement. The TM Array works fantastically well and the 1100-LFC, simply, They have an immoral amount of power ".

The TM Array configuration comprises forty 1100-LFC elements, Configured in four arrays suspended directly on the Lars Ulrich battery to propagate a pattern in the form of ‘donut’, Low frequency uniform through the stands.

“Working in a circle you have to get a control of what you are doing, Fortunately Leo is very controlled at low frequencies, ”Hughes points out -. You are in the near field of a part of the PA, But you can have problems with the room environment generated by the rest of the elements of Array addressing in other directions. Leo makes it completely manageable. With its phase coherence, You get better penetration in the room and avoid low-media frequencies, extending to the rear and side zone ".

Videotron Center arrays are understood by 72 Line Arrays Leo-M for the long sides of the enclosure, y 72 Line Arrays Lyon-W of wide coverage for short shots, While four lyon-m and Lyon-W have been installed for each Down-Fill for the final blockages.

Eight Line Arrays Mica and Sixteen M’elodie fed the front-fill during the Metallica concert; Four JM-1p arranged in Array were suspended by each Down-Fill, y 48 700-HP subwoofers covered the low stands. A Galileo Callisto speakers management system, formed by two Array Galileo processors 616 AES y 10 Galileo Callisto 616, provided the unit and alignment of the system.

The band also acted two nights at Colisée Pepsi (which was what was called before its inauguration and remodeling), where most of the components of the same system were developed in an End-Stage scenario configuration.

All these systems were supplied by the headquarters of Solotech an montreal. Metallica's tours have their own stage monitors system, which normally includes 36 Meyer Sound MJF-210.

"Coverage was incredibly uniform, greatly due to the way they combine Leo and Lyon in terms of patterns -Añade Lee Moro, Senior Project Director in Solotech -, And the power allows you to hit the point with all the level you need. All the packaging and clarity was there ".

Hughes mixes the directs at a digital table Midas XL8, With DPA DPh Microfones:vote 4099 On the battery. The vocal microphones used by the band are the supercardiodes dynamic models Shure Super 55 that favor their musical style.