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Firehouse Productions provided a JBL VTX
line array system and Crown amplifiers for Z100’s Jingle Ball 2012 at Madison Square Garden. |
NEW
YORK, New York — When New York contemporary hit radio station Z100 throws a
holiday party, it pulls out all the stops—Z100’s Jingle Ball 2012 was held in
Madison Square Garden and hosted performances by Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber,
One Direction, Ne-Yo, Jason Mraz, Cher Lloyd and others. The sellout crowd
enjoyed an immersive sonic experience, courtesy of more than 100 of HARMAN’s
JBL VTX Series and VERTEC® line array enclosures and Crown I-Tech HD Series
amplifiers.
“For
Jingle Ball 2012 we needed a system that would provide plenty of power yet have
clarity and presence even over an enthusiastic crowd of screaming fans,” said Mark
Dittmar, Lead Design and Integration Engineer of Red Hook, New York sound reinforcement
contractor Firehouse Productions. “We went all out with a VTX/ VERTEC
setup that provided full 360-degree coverage to every one of the 20,000 seats
in the Garden.”
Firehouse
deployed seven line array columns—two main hangs of 18 VTX Series V25 fullsize
line array elements each, two side hangs of 14 VERTEC
VT4889 fullsize line array elements each and three rear hangs each comprising
12 VT4889’s. Sixteen VERTEC VT4886 subcompact line array elements were used for front
fill and 24 VERTEC VT4880A fullsize arrayable subwoofers delivered the low
end. All the speakers were driven by Crown I-Tech HD Series amps, with the new
4-channel 4x3500HD powering the center hang.
Firehouse
has been relying on JBL VERTEC line arrays for more than 10 years especially in major
arena situations. “Along with their superior sound quality and installation
flexibility, their focused coverage pattern is ideal for concerts where there’s
seating all around the venue and 360-degree coverage is required, yet where the
sound has to stay clear, focused and intelligible,” explained Dittmar.
“That
said, the JBL VTX Series is yet another sonic step up—the capabilities of the
new VTX Series are really quite a step forward. The V25 has so much more
low-end power that we didn’t have to fly subwoofers along with the main arrays
as we did with the previous Jingle Ball—all the subs were placed on the floor,
which meant that we had to hang two fewer arrays in the air, making the
installation a little simpler and cleaner.”
“The
JBL line arrays and Crown amps are made for each other,” said Dittmar. “The
output of the amps can be precisely programmed to match the sonic
characteristics of each of the VTX and VERTEC
speakers. In particular, the inclusion of the newest VTX and VERTEC
V5 preset tunings in the Crown amps really took the performance of the
loudspeakers beyond anything we were able to achieve before in terms of
coverage, coherence, tonal balance and overall clarity.”
“Jingle
Ball 2012 was the first time we ever used JBL HiQnet Performance Manager™
software and we wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t have complete confidence,”
Dittmar concluded. “Not that a job like this is ever easy, but Performance
Manager made doing Jingle Ball 2012 noticeably easier than it had been in
previous years.”
For
more information on Firehouse Productions, please visit www.firehouseproductions.com
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