The New Year’s event Top 2000 In Concert was not only a splashing end of the year 2009; It was foremost the closing ceremony of the eleventh edition of the annual music marathon on Radio 2.
The closing concert took place in Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall and was broadcast on Radio 2 and the second Dutch television channel on January 1st 2010, right after the clock struck mid-night marking the end of 2009.
This eleventh edition saw national and international artists performing their own song + one personal favourite from the Top2000, among which Acda en de Munnik, Ruth Jacot, Spandau Ballet, Jamie Cullum, Björn Again, Lee Towers, Rowwen Hèze and Jeroen van der Boom.
The live-sound was engineered by The Ribbon Network member Hof Audio from Haren, the Netherlands, supplying FOH and stage monitoring. The system was designed by Bart Hof. The main system consisted of two flown arrays of 24 units Alcons LR16 compact line–array systems, complemented by ground stacked subwoofers.
The front fill system was configured using in total 12 units Alcons LR14 ultra-compact line-array systems.
Hof is using the LR14 more often as front fill and is very positive about it: “Especially the LR14’s small front- and footprint make this speaker ideal for this application, although being an array speaker”, according to Bart.
The Alcons LR16 system performed excellent in the superb acoustics of the HMH.
The Dutch engineers as well as Spandau Ballet’s engineer, Colin Norfield who used Alcons systems with Toto concerts were all enthusiast about the result.
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