Nexo GEO-Ts Debuts in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur is currently being promoted as a "Vision City" in Asia. Everyday, another super mall goes up in another suburb as the city opens up to the challenges of the modern era.  And on the clear night of 15th October, the twin Petronas towers skyline of this metropolitan city resonated to the hard thumping frequencies from whom is possibly the biggest name in the current 'nu metal' generation music scene, the six member Los Angeles based group known as Linkin Park. The concert was held at the Stadium Merdeka and saw die hard Linkin Park fans filling in from all rank and file from Malaysia and neighboring Singapore. The overwhelming response by the fans was immediately reciprocated with the band promising to return to Kuala Lumpur next year. | |
| Showtime The concert was vigorously promoted through television and radio by the organiser, Lushington Entertainments, a Singapore-based events company working in tandem with a Malaysian partner, Jojo Entertainment. “Linkin Park is coming to play Kuala Lumpur.  It’s confirmed. The band wanted it to happen very badly and its fabulous news for the fans here as Linkin Park is a massive deal and it is possibly the biggest international act to arrive in Malaysia for several years now,” said Lushington Entertainments director, Michael Roche. With tonnes of experience in this field, Lushington Entertainments with its local production manager, Peter Loh, did an outstanding job in achieving the maximum synergy from the band, the sound, lighting, video and the fans emotions. For about two hours, this modern rock style band performed around eighteen of what seemed to be like their loudest numbers including hits from their new album 'Meteora' to the appreciation of 29,000 jumping, dancing and screaming fans. It is no wonder that approximately 450 feet of 'mojo' barricades and 800 feet of 'bicycle' barricades was enforced for the event. | |
| GEO-T's Rock! Most of the equipment for the event was provided locally by Malaysia's SES Sound & Light, while the Nexo GEO-Ts were provided by Malaysia's Syarikat Perniagaan Mubari Nasuha and Singapore's Show Company. The monitor console, monitor effects and processors and the lighting desks belonged to the Linkin Park crew. Set up started three days before the event and the whole operation was supervised under the experienced attention of Peter Loh from Peter Loh Productions. The main stage was 60ft x 40ft (with a 6ft height) while the roof was larger at 74ft x 48ft in dimension to accommodate the massive numbers of lighting fixtures. Doing justice of reproducing the loud thumping yet crystal clear sound for the band's vocals and instruments was tasked to elements from Nexo’s product range including the Malaysian live debut of Nexo's new GEO-Tangent series and its Nexo CD18 Subbass loudspeakers cabinets. Already a proven soundman's dream array, the Nexo GEO-T 4805 and 2815 series cabinets were flown in their precision array formation by the stage (right and left) using a patented rigging to produce a true coherent dispersion for the Front-of-House (FOH) reinforcement. The real beauty in the GEO-T winning design against conventional horn array systems (or a megaphone-variant coercive horn) which do not produce a true coherent output as they lack the GEO-T patented hyperboloid wave source array. As a result, the different emotions of Linkin Park's music from hard thumping rock to soft vocals was masterly handled by the twin arrays of 36 x Nexo GEO-T4805, 6 x Nexo GEO-T2815 and 18 x Nexo CD18 subbass.  Taking in account the audience standing at the stage's extreme left and right out of the coverage from the main FOH, FOH audience fill was covered by flying L/R; 6 x Nexo Alpha M3 and 6 x Nexo Alpha B1 bass cabinets. All the GEO-Ts and Alphas were powered by Camco "V6" Vortex high-power amplifiers (Just as Nexo, Camco is also another valued product under the Electro-Systems Industries brand umbrella). The Camco V6 power amplifier features exceptionally high efficiency and enormous power (6,000 watts mono into 1 Ohm). Overall speaker management was through 6 x Nexo NX241 controllers. A true revolution in loudspeaker design concepts, the Nexo GEO-T series loudspeaker debunks the draconian myth of loudspeaker design, which preaches the "size equals power" concept. The Nexo GEO-T is one of the world's if not the most ultra-compact full range array system engineered to handle audiences of over 100,000. The CD18 is Nexo's new dual-ported (and reversible) subbass are so unique in its internal and external design that they can actually be placed in front of the stage area without causing any feedback to the open mics. How is that so, it is really a directional hypercardioid subbass with a unique internal design where it channels the acoustic energy flow away from the back and therefore away from the open mics. | |
| Short Front and Sides Front fill for the first rows were covered by 6 x Nexo PS15, a 2-way speaker with a 15" LF + 2" HF driver. Side fill was covered by deploying 4 x Nexo Alpha M8 and 4 x Nexo Alpha B1 bass cabinets. The Alpha M8 mid-hi speakers are very unique with its rotatable horn allowing configurable throw dispersion. For foldback/monitor, 10 x Nexo PS15 for onstage duties. All the Nexo Alpha speakers were powered by CAMCO V6 amplifiers. Overall speaker management was by the Nexo NX241 controller for the Alpha series and Nexo PS15TD controllers. FOH main desk was a Midas Heritage 3000 with 44 channel of mono + 4 stereo connected to 2 power supply units. Within the sound engineer's reach, on rack equipment read like a list of the best signal processing hardware what money can buy. Effect processors were needed for the band's numbers and signal was manipulated through a Lexicon 480L and an Eventide H3000 harmonizer. | |
| Stage Canvass The overall lighting design was focused towards painting the backdrop from hue to hue for the different numbers culminating with a barrage of ninety-plus fixtures of molefays, strobes and MACs doing a blinding all-white wash to the audience area. Rigging wise, most of the fixtures were hung in a standard gridzone layout with 24 x Martin MAC2000, 6 x Martin MAC2000 wash and 32 x Martin MAC600 (MSR575 lamp source) wash lights spread to cover the encompassing fields. While the Martin wash fixtures were tasked to the backdrop, the 24 x MAC2000 beams equipped with a high power HMI 1200 watt discharge lamp source (in an advanced optical train running along a motorised zoom system) were programmed to use their CMY colour mixing and multiple effects to lend animation to the songs.  Coupled with a flexible CTC system, the MAC2000s allows the LD to maximise his craft and raise his creative potential to the fullest for every new show. Choice of lighting desk for the LD was 2 x MA Lighting.Taking in mind the thousands standing at the back, two large video screens were set up on towers directly left and right of the main stage. 2 x Sanyo high power projectors were set up to allow back projection, each device capable of delivering a blinding 10,000 ANSI lumens of live feed video from the 4 x Sony Betacam DXC-637P Cameras. All four screen and projector towers were on Layher Scaffolds. |