SR/Live Wed, October 15, 2008

As Texas’ role became more pivotal, the Hillary Clinton campaign scheduled rallies in quick succession in over a dozen major cities and small towns, with multiple events on the same day. Factor in the variety of indoor and outdoor venues, different-sized audiences, and the crucial camera shots, and you get the demand for a highly flexible, powerful and visually unobtrusive system with reliable, high-quality sound, whether in a high school gymnasium or on the steps of the Tower at the University of Texas.

The Clinton campaign advance team called local production specialists World Audio & Lights to handle their San Antonio production needs. After a successful kickoff at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, they chose WAL for rallies throughout the state.

As World Audio & Lights’ Marc DuFrene puts it, “Every day presented a number of unknown variables, from audience size to whether or not we would be able to fly the PA. For security reasons, exact locations were not released to the advance team until 12-24 hours prior. We needed an extremely versatile system that could easily be flown or ground stacked, and one that was very low profile.”

“We were asked to provide production as if we were presenting the future President of the United States, so it had to be flawless.” Each event utilized one small main stage along with one large media riser 40 feet from the front of the stage and a small camera riser stage right or left. We couldn’t have PA gear in any of the camera shots, while providing adequate coverage for as many as 10,000 people in the round.