Mexico. In order for the nearly 500,000 attendees of the pitched Mass that Pope Benedict XVI made during the visit to Mexico last March to be able to hear perfectly, the installation of a complex sound system was required.
Zero Phase was the company chosen to adapt the Bicentennial Park near Silao, where the mass was held and in which 375 Meyer Sound speakers were installed, including 268 Milo linear arrangement speakers, probably the largest number deployed for a single event.
The goal of this company was to provide uniform coverage across a large area of irregular shape, more than a kilometer wide and half a kilometer deep, composed of uneven slopes, sloping parking lots and open fields.
To achieve this, they drew a system of 40 delay towers distributed along 12 delay lines. Most towers were configured with arrangements of between five and eight speakers, with some delay lines deploying contingents of 30 M3D speakers and 32 Mica linear array speakers.
The Meyer Sound equipment list also included 32 700-HP subwoofers, ten UPA-1P speakers for stage feedback and various boosters, six MSL-4 speakers as in-fill and a Galileo speaker control system consisting of 24 Galileo 616 processors. Three SIM 3 audio analyzers were used for system optimization. The event was mixed into DiGiCo's SD7 and SD10 consoles.
