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Asia’s biggest electronic dance festival in Goa powered by SOUND.COM

SOUND.COM’s vision of being a truly global sound company can never be complete if we do not cover our own country well. And to wrap up the year with major festivals right from Delhi to Mumbai to Goa capping it up with Asia’s biggest electronic dance festival Sunburn Goa 2009 was an icing to the cake. This is the second year in succession that SOUND.COM has been handling the audio duties for the entire event and more importantly this particular festival had won the prestigious WOW Award for ‘Live Event Of The Year’. We also knew that the bar has to be raised because the audiences would have their expectations high after the headline act in the previous year GMS set the note for the current.

The Jedi Knights of SOUND.COM also knowing that Goa is the current hometown of their founder Warren D’souza wanted to ensure that the audio had to be of the highest pedigree. And so they gave the festival punters, DJ’s and musicians a sonic show that would be one of the furthermost the country has ever witnessed. Technically we at SOUND.COM can never rest on our laurels and this year we ‘pimped’ our VerTec system by upgrading to the new Crown ITech-HD power amplifiers that currently sport the uppermost standard of onboard audio processing & limiting taking festival sound into another league. We also knew that it’s the worlds No.1 DJ voted 3 times in a row Aarmin Van Buuren from Holland who would be performing along with the likes of Roger Sanchez and Sander Van Doorn and whole line-up of top notch talent playing at the festival, we wanted to ensure everyone on stage was comfortable with their sound, after all what do DJ’s want, great sound nothing else!

We used VerTec loudspeaker inventory exclusively for both the main stages and a HLA system for the bar stage. When it comes to electronic music the most important aspect of the sound system is the way your subwoofers perform and SOUND.COM used a total of sixteen 4,000 watts ultra long excursion subwoofers to take care of the bass which is the main foundation of the sound of the dance festival and off course powered by 4,500 per channel Crown ITech-HD amplifiers. This duo was a beastly combination, extending the low frequency all across the Goan coast.

I am very proud of my team at SOUND.COM for their exemplary work on the festival and moreover that they make extremely difficult work look so easy commented Warren D’souza – Managing Director of SOUND.COM. Goa is a great place to be at this time of the year and I was very happy to see the SOUND.COM crew come to Goa with their wives and girlfriends. With our hectic schedules, we never get a chance to all meet up and finally end the year with some peace & quiet. We look forward to a great 2010 and wish all our readers a Happy New Year!!

Credits

Fali Damania
Gilroy Valladares– Assistant Engineer
Yusuf Shaikh
Yash Panchal
Ashok Giri
Ranjit Singh
Mohsin Shaikh

Audio Gear
JBL VT 4889
JBL VT 4880A
JBL HLA 4895
JBL HLA 4890A
JBL VRX 918S
JBL VRX 932LA
JBL SRX 725
Crown ITech-HD 12000
Soundcraft VI6
Yamaha LS9-32

DJ Gear
Pioneer DJM 800
Pioneer CDJ1000 mk3
Pioneer EFX1000
Technics 1210 mk5