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16th of February 2011 will go down in history as SOUND.COM's first large scale international rock concert featuring a top grossing artist like Bryan Adams and another milestone to add-on is that, this will also be arguably the first concert of this magnitude in the country featuring a JBL VerTec sound system and the largest Crown ITech-HD inventory. There was no doubt about the audio deliverables as SOUND.COM is the lineage of audio production companies that will ensure the sonic success of an event at any scale. However international artist production companies and touring engineers would always go by your track record and Bryan Adams will be now one great name to put on our credit list.

SOUND.COM's systems engineers designed a sound system that the local promoters thought was over specified, but we knew that this was the first major concert Hyderabad was ever going to witness and it would draw huge crowds. Since we always believe in equality for all listeners front and back, we thus specified 30 Vertec VT4889 cabinets and 16 VerTec VT4880A Ultra Long Excursion Subwoofers for the show. The Main hangs were augmented with 2 VerTec VT4887 using a special downfill adaptor and additional VT887 were also used for front fills and stage sidefills along with VT4880 subwoofers all powered by Crown ITech HD12000 using v4 presets.

We also created a System Architect Control Panel for controlling all the amplifiers similar to the configuration on the Crown V-Rack, all networked using Netgear GS108T v2 gigabit switches. Thus we were able to have total control of not just general controls but practically every box connected to each channel of the amplifiers. This was particularly useful to add individual delays to each of the subwoofers to ensure precise system alignment. All this control was available to the systems techs at FOH

This was one of the most busy fortnights SOUND.COM has ever had with Bryan Adams, Foreigner, The Dalai Lama, National Games & TCS launch in the country not forgetting to mention the mid-size ballroom gigs too. We would have to give credit to team SOUND.COM for all the efforts they put in to producing great audio moments. And as far as Bryan Adams ,the concert went sonically extremely well and SOUND.COM was happy to be a part of this milestone audio production.

Crew
Warren D'souza - Crew Chief
Sunil Karanjikar - Systems Engineer
Yusuf Shaikh - Rigging & Systems Tech
Farhad Daruwalla- Asst Engineer

Audio Equipment
Main PA
JBL VerTec VT4889,
JBL VerTec VT4880A
JBL VerTec VT4887
Crown ITech HD12000

Delays
JBL VerTec VT4889
Crown ITech HD12000

Stage
JBL VerTec VT4887
JBL VerTec VT4880
Crown ITech 8000

Control
HiQNet System Architect
Smaart Live v.7