As it has from the inception of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Rat Sound Systems (Camarillo, CA) was on hand at the 2024 edition of the event, as well as the following Stagecoach Festival (presenting folk, country and bluegrass and more) on the same site, deploying the Outline Newton FPGA-based processing platform at the heart of several sound reinforcement systems serving numerous stages.
The Newton FPGA-based processing platform made its debut at Coachella in 2019 and since then has been a cornerstone of Rat Sound’s approach. “We use [Outline] Newton in our master distribution racks,” explains Dave Rat, system designer, sound engineer and president of the company. “I do believe all of our stages have it as we use the Newton to tie into the event security override system with the GPIO.
“The racks they’re in are our master drive racks that convert just about any format to any other format, analog, Dante, AVB, AES, fiber or RJ45 inputs and outputs,” he adds.
The lineup at 2024 Coachella presented more than 150 artists across six stages.
