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RegieTek supplies Coda Audio AiRay system for Fête de l’Humanité

The annual three-day Fête de l’Humanité (Festival of Humanity) is France’s largest popular cultural gathering. Founded as a fundraiser for its operations by the French newspaper “l’Humanité” in 1930, the first event attracted around a thousand people, a number that has grown steadily over the decades to reach a record high of 800,000 visitors in 2018.

A mix of music, politics, art, and film, the volunteer-staffed event spans multiple stages, and as well as attracting stallholders from across the world is also attended by eminent politicians and journalists. This year’s renewal at Brétigny-sur-Orge saw a Coda Audio system taking care of the Josephine Baker Stage, one of the event’s principal focal points.

Paris-based event production supplier RegieTek provided the system, which featured Coda’s flagship AiRay line array, and was designed and overseen by project lead Vincent Luce, who states: “This was the fourth year in a row that we have supplied a Coda System for the festival. The AiRay is perfectly suited to the demands of this event. The Josephine Baker Stage alternates between  ‘concert’ and ‘electro’ setups.” The AiRay was used in conjunction with Coda’s sensor controlled subs.

RegieTek supplied a main system of 24 AiRays and sixteen SC2 sensor-controlled subs in “end fire” mode. Added to this, a further nine SCP-Fs per side in a cardioid arrangement (front-back-front) were combined with a line of ten SCP-Fs on the floor to provide even distribution of low frequencies. Four ViRays per side were deployed as infills, with a further four ViRays at the front of the stage as lipfills to cover the near-field. A pair of Hops12 opened up the flanks of the stage.

A total of six Coda Audio Linus T-Racks (12-channel touring racks), each containing three Linus14D 4-channel DSP amplifiers, with a further four M-Racks (compact 4-channel touring racks), each containing a single Linus14D DSP amplifier, powered the system. “The Alpha 256 stage enabled us to mount all the loudspeakers high enough, one behind the other - AiRay, SC2, SCP-F”, Luce concludes.

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