![]() Onstage, Brooklyn Steel offers visiting performers a monitor rig comprising 13 L-Acoustics X15 HiQ wedges, two ARCS WiFo cabinets on each side for sidefill, plus six SB18 subs for sidefill and drumfill. “There are eight ARCS WiFo boxes for delay, six for the second balcony and two under the first-floor balcony,” Grabe reports. The venue features a raised audience platform toward the rear of the space plus two balcony levels. “So I also gave Brooklyn Steel a center cluster of six Kara that engineers can put the vocals in and get more three-dimensional depth from the system.” “I come from a theatre background,” continues Grabe, who circled the globe as a touring engineer and also previously oversaw operations at Masque Sound’s concert division. “The KS28s are in a cardioid configuration, with the center two flipped around, to keep too much energy from firing back onto the stage,” he says. K2’s Panflex horizontal steering feature nicely allowed the main arrays to be flown on the outside of the stage, close to the walls, yet keep the coverage tightly focused on the audience area.įour K1-SB subs flown behind each array provide low frequency extension, with the added benefit of noise reduction on the performance area, while eight KS28 subs are distributed beneath the stage. The main left and right hangs each comprise 10 K2 array modules-two less per hang than at Terminal 5- while four Kara boxes provide front fill. “We wanted to achieve the same thing at Brooklyn Steel right out of the gate.”įor Brooklyn Steel, which at 1,800-capacity is the largest general admission space in the borough, Grabe specified a rig that mimics the latest Terminal 5 system almost box for box. “Terminal 5 didn’t start out having the best reputation for great sound, but once we installed the K2 system it turned around to where engineers love mixing there,” says Lorne Grabe, front of house engineer at Terminal 5, where he collaborated on the design of the sound system with production manager Chris Burrows. (L-R) James Lawrenson, Jacob Ferrante, Jeff Peterson and Kyle Lawrence “The Bowery Presents has always recognized the value of providing the highest quality production infrastructure available to best enhance both audiences’ and bands’ overall live experience.” Brooklyn Steel’s house audio crew. ![]() “Having worked with The Bowery Presents on numerous venues over the years, See Factor’s first choice of L-Acoustics and DiGiCo is a solid combination that has firmly built our fruitful relationship of trust with the promoter,” Friedman notes. A three-way copper split accommodates tours traveling with their own monitor rigs as well as recording and broadcast feeds. Mark Friedman of Long Island City-based See Factor supplied the loudspeaker setup as well as the rest of the new club’s audio complement, including a 56-channel DiGiCo SD10 console at front of house with a 56-channel SD9 available for monitors. TBP’s in-house team designed and installed Brooklyn Steel’s L-Acoustics loudspeaker system, which is patterned after a similar rig at Terminal 5, a 3,000-capacity venue in Manhattan that the promoter also exclusively operates. New York City-based national concert promoter The Bowery Presents (TBP) recently opened its latest live music venue, Brooklyn Steel, a new 20,000-square-foot space in East Williamsburg, New York that is outfitted with L-Acoustics K2 line arrays, plus delays and stage monitors.Ī gantry crane retained from the former steel fabrication business enables the flown arrays to be repositioned, along with the movable 50,000-pound steel and concrete stage, to scale the audience area according to the expected attendance at each show.
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