A recent official visit to Germany by Pope Benedict XVI included Mass with 61,000 followers at Olympic Stadium in Berlin, while millions more followed the event on television.
Sound reinforcement for the event in the 56,000-square-meter oval stadium was supplied by Electro-Voice equipment.
In addition to the 171 Electro-Voice XLC enclosures already installed, a multitude of additional EV array elements were deployed on this occasion, including 104 XLD181, 40 X-Line Xvls and Xvlts (main in- and out-hangs), as well as 60 XLE181 enclosures on a delay line.
The system was powered by Electro-Voice amplifiers – the 90 P3000RL power amplifiers of the stadium system were joined by 80 more TG7 amplifiers.
Six NetMax N8000-1500 loudspeaker controllers provided the system control via an Optocore network (divided into three redundant circuits).
“It was naturally a great honor and a joy for us to be able to contribute to this moving event,” states Robert Hesse, vice president sales communication EMEA of Bosch Communications Systems and managing director of EVI Audio.
“It was also extremely gratifying to hear and see how magnificently our systems mastered the quite extraordinary tasks assigned to them. No one watching the live broadcast on television can have missed the X-Line array, as the broadcast director was clearly taken with its undeniable visual elegance. We, at any rate, were delighted by the shots seen on TV, which million of spectators followed.”
