Bassnectar gets an enveloping experience with D&B at the Rapids Colorado Stadium

The sound specifications made by Brown Note at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Park provided the intimate environment that was sought for the concert in which more than more than 80 SUBs, A mixture of J-Subs and J-Infras in cardioid mode in front of the main stage.

The most outstanding feature of Bassnectar's concerts is that they provide an enveloping experience: The intimacy of a club but on a larger scale.

This intimate atmosphere was achieved at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Park stadium, Situated about Commerce City (Colorado) And in which the Rapids Colorado team of the American Soccer League League Soccer plays (MLS). And it was achieved thanks to the efficacy and interpretation of the Bassnectar sound specification that the Brown Note Productions Brown Productions did, When the stadium dimensioned.

"To be a stadium, maintains some closeness and intimacy and, When we introduced the physical data, The coverage mapping was not too complicated. From the place where the stage was located there are approximately 110 meters to the furthest stands. With arraycalc of D&B was very easy to define and guarantee uniform coverage ”, explica Ryan Knutson, President of Brown Note and director of the audio project for this event.

The original specification was performed with D speakers&b audiotechnik, mainly J and V series. “Great arrangements of the J series were required. But when we designed it we saw that it could be too much, Thus we remove a couple of boxes per side. This point was important, because we implement arrayprocessing (AP) To fulfill Bassnectar's desire that an experience was lived in the first row without, as he said, They burst the public's ears ", Knutson clarifies.

Bassnectar opted for the D80 amplifiers due to the performance improvements they provide.
The arrayprocessing's ability to produce a uniform pressure level and the tone tone of D throughout the listening zone&B are well documented, But Knutson and his Systems Technician Chris Chier.

“We had more than 80 SUBs, A mixture of J-Subs and J-Infras in cardioid mode in front of the main stage. The arrangement measured some 37 meters which allowed us to control the horizontal dispersion to the range of 20 Hz. This was part of our approach to ensure that the noise escape to the surrounding residential neighborhoods was reduced ”, Contiíaa Knutson.

“When we measured the levels in the LINDE owned beyond the stadium it was exactly how it had predicted. The most important thing was that he met all the requirements of the permit for events in that enclosure ”.

Use so many subs allowed to create more uniform coverage and use sound pressure levels (SPL) lower in the listening zone. For that reason, The main subs arrangement and an additional delay arrangement with B22-Subs, below, In the center of the field, They barely influenced gain reduction.