RegieTek supplies CODA Audio AiRAY system for leading French festival …
The annual three-day Fête de l’Humanité (Festival of Humanity) is France’s largest popular cultural gathering. Founded as a fundraiser for its operations by the French newspaper l’Humanité in 1930, the first event attracted around a thousand people, a number that has grown steadily over the decades to reach a record high of 800,000 visitors in 2018. A unique mix of music, politics, art, and film, the volunteer-staffed event spans multiple stages, and as well as attracting stallholders from across the world is also attended by eminent politicians and journalists. This year’s renewal at Brétigny-sur-Orge saw a CODA Audio system taking care of the Josephine Baker Stage, one of the event’s principal focal points.
Experienced Paris-based event production supplier RegieTek provided the system, which featured CODA’s flagship AiRAY line array, and was designed and overseen by project lead Vincent Luce:
“This was the fourth year in a row that we have supplied a CODA System for the festival. The AiRAY is a powerful, accurate, and renowned system, which is perfectly suited to the demands of this event. The Josephine Baker Stage alternates between ‘concert’ and ‘electro’ setups – the AiRAY used in conjunction with CODA’s sensor controlled subs makes it easy to juggle the demands of sharply contrasting musical styles.”
RegieTek supplied a main system of 24 x AiRAY and 16 x SC2 sensor-controlled subs in ‘end fire’ mode. Added to this, a further 9 x SCP-F per side in a cardioid arrangement (front-back-front) were combined with a line of 10 x SCP-F on the floor to provide even distribution of low frequencies. 4 x ViRAY per side were deployed as infills, with a further 4 x ViRAY at the front of the stage as lipfills to cover the near-field. A pair of HOPS12 opens up the flanks of the stage.
A total of 6 x CODA Audio LINUS T-Rack (12-channel touring rack) each containing 3 x LINUS14D 4 channel DSP amplifiers, with a further 4 x M-Rack (compact 4-channel touring rack) each containing a single LINUS14D DSP amplifier powered the system.
Vincent concludes:
“We had a very positive reaction from all quarters to the audio. The Alpha 256 stage enabled us to mount all the loudspeakers high enough, one behind the other – AiRAY, SC2, SCP-F – and the sound was excellent. All the speakers were in phase and in terms of sound pressure and consistency the outcome was excellent.”
