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All NEXO system
for biggest-ever
Clockenflap Festival
NEWS 20
Now in its 8th year, the Hong Kong
music and arts festival Clockenflap has
turned into one of the biggest events
in the region. Staged in a picturesque
waterside location in West Kowloon,
this 3-day festival brings together a
diverse bill of international performers
and musical styles.
With over 60,000 music fans attending,
the 2015 event was the largest to date. For
the first time, Clockenflap invited French
loudspeaker manufacturer NEXO to be the
festival’s audio partner, a huge undertaking
which meant supplying PA systems to seven
separate performance stages (monitoring
included) as well as a number of lounges,
VIP areas and band common rooms.
The festival was the ideal showcase for
NEXO’s modular line array system, the STM
Series, allowing the 4-module system to
be configured in four different ways to suit
the main PA requirements of four different
principal stages. With nearly 500 NEXO
cabinets on site, the powerful mix-andmatch
capabilities of the company’s relatively
small range of products was shown
off to the full – STM Series modules used as
stagefill, compact GEO M6 cabinets used as
infill with the larger STM system, RS Subs
deployed alongside the STM S118 subs.
The Harbourflap is the main performance
stage – spectacularly located at the waterside
with its view of Hong Kong Island’s skyline.
Here NEXO’s flagship STM rig could be
heard in full flow. On stage left and right,
arrays of 15x M46 main and 15x B112 bass
modules plus one M28 downfill below were
flown alongside 9x S118 subs, with a further
10x S118s cabinets groundstacked below.
This covered a main audience area more
than 100 metres deep.
On the second Atum Stage, a completely
different STM proposition was in action –
here the STM M28 omnipurpose module
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