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Wharfedale Pro provides sound system for Straßenparty Geldern

“Straßenparty Geldern” is a three-day summer festival in the heart of Geldern, in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region. This free, open-air event includes live concerts from a rich range of musical genres across a total of five festival stages. For the 2024 edition of the festival, two of the largest stages featured line array PA systems from Wharfedale Pro.

On hand was Wharfedale Pro’s local Applications and Solutions Manager from IAD GmbH, Christian Boche. Sound specialists Rockline deployed the sound system for the main stage, whilst the second stage was handled by event technicians Ambiento. “There were a lot of different bands in the mix with very short change-over times between acts, so I was on hand to ensure the event and the Wharfedale Pro gear ran smoothly”, says Boche. “From rock and tribute bands to DJ sets, choirs and dance groups, the variety of different genres was impressive.”

Wharfedale Pro’s WLA-1 and WLA-210XP systems’ Ease Focus compatibility allowed for upfront acoustic simulation, critical for an inner-city festival with multiple stages. On the main stage, the PA system consisted of six WLA-112 flown per side, with an additional WLA-112 as infill on both the left and right. Four WLA-21BX subwoofers were stacked on the left and right, plus three WLA-121 subwoofers as a centre cluster stacked at the base of the stage. In this configuration, the system provided complete coverage for an audience of up to 2000 attendees. A smaller system was required on the second stage, with a total of four ground-stacked WLA-210XP loudspeakers on each side, driven by Wharfedale Pro’s own DP-N amplifiers.

Timelines for the event set-up were tight, with just three hours in total for complete audio gear implementation on the main stage, including a soundcheck for the first performers. “With only three technicians on site, getting the gear rigged and ready was a challenge”, says Boche. “The Rockline-VT team made use of Ease Focus using WLA-GLL files to do the acoustic simulation, which helped to streamline the process.”

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