As one of the fastest rising stars of the international touring DJ circuit, trance DJ and producer Ben Nicky captured headlines when he announced his first large-scale solo headline show at Northern Ireland’s biggest venue, the Belfast SSE Arena. For the technical crew, meanwhile, the pressure was on to deliver a sound reinforcement system capable of meeting everyone’s high expectations.
For Belfast-based rental company PSI and leading technical supplier Sonalyst UK, the clear choice was K-ARRAY Firenze. Firstly, load-in and load-out both had to take place on the day of the sold-out show; secondly, the front of house solution needed to cover 5,000 audience members with extremely hard-hitting, highly dynamic content.
The first challenge was immediately dealt with courtesy of the extraordinary speed of rigging and set-up that K-ARRAY Firenze offers – from unpacking the system from the single truck in which it shipped, to having it flown and ready to perform, was a matter of just two hours.
The need for a suitably impressive sonic performance, meanwhile, was taken care of in style with a remarkably compact but powerful design comprising of a total of 24 Firenze-KH8 flat panel speakers there were flown 12 per-side, supported by a mono distributed subwoofer setup of just 12 Firenze-KS8 subs. Control and equalization were handled via Firenze’s onboard DSP-based Armonia software, while EASE Focus was used for design and optimisation with accurate control of FIR steering.