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Martin Audio’s WPL debuts at ‘Rock In Japan’

Celebrating its 20th anniversary year, and extended to five days for the 2019 edition, the ‘Rock In Japan’ festival also marked the Japanese debut of Martin Audio’s Wavefront Precision Longbow (WPL). ‘Rock In Japan’ was running on seven stages over two weekends at Hitachi Seaside Park.

Martin Audio systems are now regular fixtures at this event, with the MLA adopted for the largest, 70,000 capacity Grass Stage. “It was back in 2011 when we first introduced MLA on the Lake Stage,” reports Shuzo Fujii, president of MSI Japan. “This is now the ninth year that the system has been adopted.”

On the Grass Stage, twenty elements each side formed the main arrays supported by a further sixteen cabinets per side as outfills. In addition, 48 MLX subwoofers provided low frequency extension.

MLA was also adopted for other stages such as the Park Stage (10,000 cap), Lake Stage (10,000 cap) and Sound of Forest (8,000 cap) with the control offered by MLA also helping to prevent unnecessary sound bleed between stages.

At the new Buzz Stage (4,500 cap) WPL was making its debut. Six WPL elements had been flown per side, driven by three iK42 in 1-box resolution. In addition, two WPC enclosures were stacked as outfills, along with WPM as lipfill - all driven by iK42 amplifiers. The four iK42s were set up at the side of the stage, connected via a Dante audio network.

Due to the Luminex Gigacore switch which has V-LAN settings, Dante primary and secondary as well as the control signals of VU-Net and Apex Intelli-X3 processor were combined into a single optical cable. Meanwhile, ten MLX subwoofers were set under the stage.

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