Thai Wonderfruit Festival featured Martin Audio systems

Wonderfruit Festival, the famous thai cultural meeting, mind centered, nature and sound, in which more than 35.000 personas, It had several systems Martin Audio, including WPC, Torus y THS, in three scenarios, including the main stage of the festival, Creature Stage.

Joshua Oates, Business Development Director of Martin Audio's Thai Distributor, The Foreigner Frames, emphasizes that “We have been collaborating with Wonderfruit since the beginning of the festival, mainly through our production partners, Mr. Team. It's an amazing festival. For our part, we can use it as a live and real world demo space. Mr. Team Productions handled most of the on-site audio, deploying near 100 engineers, technicians and sound staff at all times.

“From Fuzion's point of view, we knew what systems we would like to show, but the final decision was made jointly with Mr.. Team and was dictated by the spaces and genres of the artists”, confirms Oates.

He Creature Stage, the biggest stage of the festival, hosted a vibrant program of international and regional artists. Two suspensions of eight per side Martin Audio WPC They formed the main L-R system, with a central group of four WPS boxes. The low frequency reinforcement came from ocho subwoofers SXH218 of 2 x 18 inches stacked on the ground, and the entire system was powered by nine amplifiers Martin Audio Ikon IK42.

Constant clarity

“The WPC line array was perfect for the Creature Stage”, says Oates.. “We needed a reach of 40 meters to cover the main public area, and the WPC provided consistent SPL and clarity throughout”.

With multiple stages spread throughout the venue, sound containment was a key consideration. “WPC was chosen in part for its Wavefront Precision technology, which allows us to direct the system and control how it spreads to the rest of the festival”, Oates points out.. "That made him the ideal choice for the main stage”.

The Creature Stage FOH Engineer, Pinyo Boonpraneewong, agrees and praises the performance of the Martin system: “As FOH Engineer and Creature Stage Support for almost a decade, The Martin Audio WPC with SHX218 impressed me with its audio clarity, its large headroom and scalable resolution from Martin Audio”.

Meanwhile, in it SOT scenario (Straight Out of Thonglor), a constant curvature system was selected Martin Audio Torus for its powerful low frequency performance, especially suitable for the stage's hip-hop-focused program. Each L-R main suspension consisted of four Torus boxes (three T215 and one T1230) backed by a couple of CDD15 front fillers y cuatro subwoofers SXH218. The amplification was provided by three IKON IK41 and two IK42 units..

“The very narrow options of 15 Torus grades helped a lot in noise control”, adds Oates., “especially given its proximity to other settings”.

Finally, the stage Moonlight, DJ-oriented, in collaboration with Sangsom, It had a Martin Audio THS system. And pair of THS boxes they covered the main L-R, with an additional pair as outfill, reinforced by dos subwoofers SX218. DJ monitoring consisted of floor-stacked L-R arrays of three WPM elements per side, each mounted on an SX118 subwoofer. Power for the entire stage came from two amplifiers IK42 icon and one IK81 icon.

Demanding conditions

“The house music that was played there most of the time suited the power and energy of THS very well.”, says Oates.. All systems were subjected to tests in very demanding environmental conditions. “The heat and dust were crazy, like in a desert, but we didn't have any problems”, confirms Oates. “This really showed that Martin Audio systems are robust and well designed”.

The opinions of the engineering teams were unanimously positive. “They were impressed with how easy the systems were to install.: ease of setup, the clarity right out of the box and how little adjustment needed to be made. His reaction was basically: "It just works.". Martin just works”.

Pok Sutat, Production Director of Fuzion Far East and General Manager of Mr.. Team, recognizes that “the implementation in Wonderfruit 2025 with Martin Audio proved that WPC is more than capable of handling main stage duties, while the SXH218 cemented its reputation as one of the most powerful and efficient subwoofers on the market. For Southeast Asia market, was a masterclass in how modern line array technology can deliver 'big system' results.’ in a compact and manageable space”.

“on stage SOT, the powerful ccombination of Torus and SXH218 Handled the aggressive transients of hip-hop and bass music with ease, demonstrating both powerful bass and the precision of constant curvature arrays. While on the Moonlight stage, High-fidelity THS point source systems created a “boutique club” atmosphere for deep house and electronica”, concludes Sutat.