JEEP BEACH 2024, which recently transformed the Daytona International Speedway in Florida into a sonic haven for Jeep enthusiasts and music lovers on hand for live performances by headliner Lee Brice as well as Craig Morgan and more, was supported by a main sound reinforcement system headed up by TT+ Audio GTX line arrays and supporting components.
Wayne Pauley, production manager and front-of-house engineer for Brice, states, “The new TT+ Audio GTX 12-inch box is one of the best sounding boxes I have heard in a long time. These boxes sounded great from the moment we put music through them for tuning. The high end was so clean and natural-sounding, I was actually taken aback for a moment. In these modern days where so many boxes out there have a high end that sounds ‘fabricated,’ it is incredible to hear a box that can deliver that range in a way that sounds like it should — natural. Kudos to you, TT+ Audio!”
The system at JEEP BEACH 2024 utilized dual arrays each comprised of 11 GTX elements joined by 18 GTS 29 subwoofers. Each hang was divided into five zones of two or three GTX 12 boxes per zone, driven by two racks that each housed three XPS 16K power amplifiers that deliver four channels of a stated 4000 watts continuous power at 2.7 ohms along with analog/digital routing options, 32-bit internal routing and 40-bit floating-point DSP at 96 kHz. It’s housed in a 2U chassis with a Dante-equipped version available.
The GTX 12 uses a familiar three-point style rigging, according to the event’s system engineer, Michael Lawrence of Precision Audio Services, who worked alongside RCF’s Oscar Mora. “Its locking piston automatically sets itself to achieve the proper splay angles when the array is hoisted,” says Lawrence, “so you don’t have to set the locks manually.” The system was under RCF RDNet software control. Completing the system for the festival were L-Acoustics Kara components for front fill and out fill, plus L-Acoustics K2 modules on delay towers.
A third three-amplifier rack per side drove half the GTS 29 subwoofers, with nine of them deployed in stacks of three across the front of each side of the stage. “All were broadside as per Wayne’s preference, with the exception of the center subwoofer on the innermost stacks reversed with the cardioid preset loaded,” Lawrence explains. “I had those set with their own mute function in RDNet so I could have the option to clean up the LF at the lead singer position for the other acts, and then mute those out for Lee’s performance.”
The GTX rig is set to rejoin Brice when he appears as a headliner at the Lonestar Jam in Round Rock, TX.
