NEXO provided clear sound at the SEA Games despite technical and logistical issues
France – About 40,000 people came together on 5 June 2015 in Singapore's National Stadium for a spectacular Opening Ceremony for an extraordinary SEA Games. Organised by the Singapore Southeast Asian Games Organising Committee (SINGSOC), the SEA Games centred on the Singapore Sports Hub, with its principal facility, The National Stadium, equipped throughout with NEXO sound reinforcement including the STM Series modular line array.
For several years, Singapore-based The Show Company (sound rental provider) has used NEXO PA systems for its prestigious events. It all started with NEXO PS15s in 1996, and soon followed with Alphas, GEO S, GEO-T, GEO-D-, the CD subbass series, and lately the new modular line array STM Series, which were delivered in December 2014 and debuted on the ZoukOut Moon Stage rave party in Singapore.
With the NEXO STM M28 compact cabinets coming onto the market in the fourth quarter of 2014, The Show Company was able to propose a complete system solution and arranged a speaker demo to the committee. NEXO's David Hochstenbach and Nicolas Kirsch assisted The Show Company design team of Desmond Fong (Project Director), Jon Sim (Audio Project manager/Chief Systems Engineer), and Jerome Soh (Chief Field Engineer RF Systems).
In the roof were 10 flown clusters, each with 9x STM M46 main modules s, 9x STM B112 bass, 4x STM S118 subs and 2x NEXO Universal Amp Racks (NUAR) each, with the NUARs flown behind the clusters to keep speaker cables short and lightweight. These covered the top 2 tiers of seating and VIP balconies.
Trackside, there were 12 groundstacks of 3x STM M28 mains, 2x STM B112 bass and 2x STM S118 subs to cover the first tier of seating. These clusters provided same detailed and clear powerful sound but with more vertical splay. The STM groundstacks proved to be a vital element in this stadium configuration as they allowed coverage for the seats under the balcony, not covered by the flown array.
Another 6 ground stacks of 2x STM M46 mains and 2x STM S118 subs focussed on the performers area, to be used as a ‘foldback system' in case the wireless in-ears of MCs and performers failed.
The Show Company was able to provide 48x M46 systems (total 144 modules) and 24x M28 systems (total 48 modules) but that was still short of the 320 modules required. After an introduction to Engineering Impact Ltd, NEXO's STM partner in Hong Kong, the two parties quickly agreed to cooperate and, within weeks, the 36x additional M46 systems from Engineering Impact Ltd set sail for the three-month job in Singapore.
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