{"id":253749,"date":"2024-05-28T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T13:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/?post_type=press-release&p=253749"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T13:22:37","slug":"madonna-concludes-her-celebration-tour-with-a-beach-concert-in-rio-for-1-6-million-fans-featuring-a-massive-l-acoustics-concert-sound-system","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/fr\/press-releases\/madonna-concludes-her-celebration-tour-with-a-beach-concert-in-rio-for-1-6-million-fans-featuring-a-massive-l-acoustics-concert-sound-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Concludes Her\u00a0Celebration\u00a0Tour with a Beach Concert in Rio for 1.6 Million Fans Featuring a Massive L-Acoustics Concert Sound System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A colossal 624-loudspeaker concert sound system powered by 212 amplified controllers projected the Queen of Pop to the largest audience ever assembled for a standalone concert<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil \u2013 May 2024 \u2013<\/strong> \u201cMadonna is a creature of comfort and habit, so the first and foremost challenge of mixing her sound is to recreate her experience exactly, night to night, venue to venue, on every stage. That\u2019s where L-Acoustics made all the difference,\u201d shares Madonna\u2019s FOH engineer, Burton Ishmael. He\u2019s been mixing for the star from October 14, 2023, at the O2 Arena in London to the massive, record-breaking show on the beach in Rio de Janeiro on May 4, 2024, when an estimated 1.6 million fans took in what Pollstar<\/em> described as \u201cthe largest audience ever assembled for a standalone concert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0Celebration<\/em>\u00a0Tour, supplied by vendor Eighth Day Sound, a Clair Global brand, visited arenas around the globe with a K2-based system, where it grossed over $227 million and sold 1,128,657 tickets over 80 shows. For the massive tour finale on the beach in Rio, S\u00e3o Paulo-based sound company Gabisom took the lead on production for the closing show, which featured an impressive 624 K1<\/a>, K2<\/a>, and other L-Acoustics enclosures driven by a staggering 122 LA12X<\/a> and 90 LA8<\/a> amplified controllers and two P1 processors<\/a>. The final count was 172 K1, 80 K1-SB<\/a>, 96 K2, 128 SB28<\/a>, 68 KS28<\/a>, 59 Kara<\/a>, and 21 X8<\/a>. The complexity of this setup was managed with the help of L-Acoustics Soundvision modeling software, a testament to the technical prowess of the team\u2014and the beach, which posed unexpected challenges for the concert sound system design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An aerial view of Madonna\u2019s final\u00a0Celebration<\/em>\u00a0Tour stop in Rio on May 4, 2024\u00a0(credit: Bruna Prado\/AP-SIPA)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a major, major, major tool in coming up with the solution, and the only way we could have actually figured this out was to use Soundvision,\u201d says Ishmael. \u201cNot knowing the beach layout precisely and where exactly on the beach it would\u2019ve happened, we could have just estimated the distance of throw, which we figured would be about four square feet per person to stand there, times however million people. We could take that distance, put it in Soundvision, and simulate the entire thing. Without Soundvision, it would\u2019ve been impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those precise calculations helped Ishmael and his crew, including Systems Engineer Andy Fitton and Crew Chief Frank Peoples, lay out a design to address a challenging performance space. \u201cWe expected not to have any walls or anything around to reflect sound, but we also had to contend with changes of temperature on the beach\u2014during the day it would be hot, and then at night we would expect it to cool at least 10 or 15 degrees\u2014and the wind was also a very big concern for its potential to deflect sound,\u201d Ishmael explains. \u201cIn addition to that, the salt in the air and the marine layer presented challenges. That\u2019s why we packed the concert sound system with so much power, just to overcome those elements. Speaking of which, many of the amplified controllers were only 30 meters from the waves breaking on the shore, but they never failed to solidly drive all the arrays down the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left to right: Crew Chief Frank Peoples, L-Acoustics\u2019 Chris \u201cSully\u201d Sullivan, FOH Engineer Burton Ishmael, L-Acoustics\u2019 Alex Soto, and Systems Engineer Andy Fitton\u00a0(credit: Brandon Ishmael)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The system\u2019s delay towers were especially unique regarding numbers and placement. Configured as eight stereo towers, each comprising four K1-SB, eight K1, four K2, and eight KS28, and arranged as a kind of sonic parade marching from the beach. \u201cWe had to take in the atmospheric variances and the distances to make the delay towers work, and Soundvision\u2019s Autosolver tools, like Autoclimate and Autofilter, made this kind of scale manageable,\u201d says Systems Engineer Andy Fitton, noting that the wireless microphones used to calibrate tower speakers a half-mile away from front of house stretch those systems\u2019 antennas to their maximum range. \u201cThe delay-mapping mode in Soundvision was crucial in getting that right,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the ability to visualize the low-mid pattern in the SPL target was critical in matching the overall homogeneity of the system over 300-foot throw distances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another area of concern was the three large catwalks that Madonna prowled during the show. \u201cUnlike in an arena, where we had the roof and grid system that we were able to suspend everything from, out on the beach, there\u2019s no roof system,\u201d says Ishmael. \u201cSo we positioned the main speakers underneath so that it wouldn\u2019t feed back on the three catwalks, then added Kara and X8 upstage fills. That kept the front-of-house sound off the catwalks but still delivered amazing coverage throughout the VIP area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the Rio show\u2019s massive main arrays, comprising six K1-SB over 16 K1 plus two K2 downs, backed by a hang of a dozen KS28 subs in a cardioid configuration\u00a0(credit: Brandon Ishmael)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A deployment of this size does not come together without a team effort, and Celebration Tour Crew Chief Frank Peoples says there was plenty of that on the Rio show. \u201cEveryone pitched in to make this happen as smoothly as possible, including Chris \u2018Sully\u2019 Sullivan and Alex Soto from L-Acoustics, who were there to provide system design expertise and help with any questions we had,\u201d says Peoples, who was part of the sound system crew for Pope Francis\u2019 visit to Panama in 2019, and knows how challenging productions at this scale can be. \u201cK Series speakers have the throw you need to reach everywhere the sound needs to go, and to sound good doing it. There was a lot to think about for this show, but excellent coverage and fidelity were never a worry\u2014they were both a given\u2014and having Sully and Alex on our team was a key ingredient of this production\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ishmael says an enormous amount of care, effort, and time went into the concert sound system design for\u00a0Celebration<\/em>\u2014rehearsals began in a Brooklyn soundstage and later in Nassau Coliseum a year before the tour kicked off. Still, the final show on the beach was a singular event in terms of scale and challenge. The L-Acoustics technology offered his team the tools to adeptly meet those challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A rear view of some of the 16 L-Acoustics delay towers stretching down the beach\u00a0(credit: Brandon Ishmael)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have to say that I was completely satisfied, and I didn\u2019t expect anything less,\u201d he says. \u201cThe loudspeakers and amps held up tremendously. The ability to monitor what\u2019s going on anywhere in the system at any given moment was very confidence-building. And then sonically, it was exactly what I expected from L-Acoustics\u2014excellence, from the first note to the last.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more details on Madonna\u2019s recent\u00a0Celebration<\/em>\u00a0Tour, visit\u00a0www.ma<\/a>donna.com<\/a>. Eighth Day Sound can be found online at\u00a0w<\/a>ww.8thdaysound.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking out across the stage and VIP area at the sea of fans anxiously waiting for the evening\u2019s show\u00a0(credit: Alex Soto)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Madonna\u2019s beach concert for 1.6 million fans in Rio was a joint effort between Gabisom, Eighth Day Sound, L-Acoustics, and many others\u00a0(credit: Alex Soto)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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