The first Challenger Cup race of the 2015 season is over. The international series of acrobatic air races under the label of RedBull was launched in Abu Dhabi and Delta Sound were once again involved. Contracted by Blink Experience, Delta supplied and operated an audio package for public address to the spectators’ areas.

The PA distribution encompassed the Race Club and Sky Lounge next to the Abu Dhabi Heritage Village (opposite the beach), public areas on the Corniche, the road side in front of the Emirates Palace and the corner plaza at Marina Mall.

The team lead by Senior Engineer Craig Harvey, utilised a range of product to cover the vast areas open to the general public, as well as the VIP zones and media areas. The public areas and the Race Club were covered by L-Acoustics V-DOSC, KUDO and K2 systems. Whilst the VIP venue Sky Lounge were supplied with a compact distributed system of L-Acoustics MTD108s and 5XTs

“We installed an impressive amount of fibre and analogue signal cable to distribute audio to all the relevant areas of coverage; all routed back to one central control point where we picked up the feeds from broadcast. It can be quite a task to get it all right but with a bit of good planning and plenty of support from both the local and international production teams, the event was made much easier. With the wireless infrastructure we installed we had access to all the elements of the PA and could get control wherever and whenever we needed” Craig summarised.