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M3Ds Unleash “Frightful” Power at Freakers Ball

It was not a show for the faint of heart, or for a sound system with anything less than crushing power. Fortunately, all the fans were young and healthy, and the audio system was a Meyer Sound M3D line array.

Dubbed the Freakers Ball, this Halloween night concert drew a crowd of over 14,000 to the Smirnoff Music Centre in Dallas. The raucous celebration, sponsored by local radio station KEGL-FM, presented a blistering lineup of hard-edged rockers: Marilyn Manson, Staind, Sevendust, Jibe and Element Eighty.

To shake the foundations of the Smirnoff shed, Dallas-based Crossroads Audio brought in a system with 12 M3D cabinets per side (split into arrays of 8 and 4 each), plus a dozen M3D-Sub subwoofers. According to Crossroads Audio’s Robin Magruder, the system possessed abundant power reserves — at the low end in particular — that belied the modest cabinet count.

"The FOH engineer for one of the bands had this standard test to make sure he has enough low end," recalls Magruder. "He puts a disc in the FOH CD player and then cranks up the bass to see if he can make the CD skip. Then he knows he has the horsepower he needs. Needless to say, the M3D system passed the test easily."

Magruder notes that system has tremendous low-frequency power in both the full-range M3D cabinets as well as in the M3D-Sub loudspeakers. “To our knowledge, the M3D has more bass and mid-bass power, definition and pattern control in its full-range cabinets than any other system,” he says. “That’s a significant advantage since subs for live shows are almost always ground-stacked, and most other systems' full-range cabinets don’t produce the useful low-end performance in the flown arrays than you really need. This is an important M3D advantage, one that enables us to provide such powerful performance in large venues with fewer cabinets.”

A total of 36 cabinets is not many for extremely high levels in a 20,000-capacity shed, a fact that duly impressed the venue management. "When I advanced this show with the artists' production people, they were eager to try the Meyer M3D system,” says Larry Sizemore, production manager at the Smirnoff Music Centre. “As it turned out, the Meyer system definitely had plenty of power and volume, especially considering how quickly it goes up and down."

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