Purple Audio

As winter starts settling in, we’re left reminiscing one of our favourite shows of the summer season - Wax’o at the Collingwood Children’s Farm

It’s always a good show when we get to monoblock, and even more of a guarantee when it’s a wax’o party ❤️

Main PA
6x Evo7T
6x Evo7TH
4x F124

Infill
2x F1201.2

Rear Fill
2x F1201.2
2x BR118

Monitoring
2x PSM18

There was no dust to settle after this year’s lush 🏞️🤍

After six amazing years of providing audio for the Pitch Black stage, we were invited to make the exciting move over to the newly redesigned stage last weekend.

Working alongside the pitch core production team () and stage and lighting designers .raito, we were able to fly the PA once again while working within the circular stage design. It was a pleasure working alongside Colin, Tijs, and .harwood supporting the aural aspect of the incredible visual immersion they created in the space.

Another year down at pitch, and potentially the best one yet. We’re super proud of this one & can’t wait for next year!

Main PA:
6x EVO7TL
6x EVO7TH
6x EVO7T
20x F124 (broadside array, five clusters)

Outfill:
4x EVO7E

Infill:
4x EVO6E

Delay:
4x EVO6EH
4x F215
2x F1201

Monitoring:
2x EVO2
2x BR221

All amplification and processing by and

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41 speakers & 32 subs across the dusty northern Victorian plains, the icy cold Alpine region and a velodrome in between, we’re feeling proud to be on the other side of our biggest new year’s to date!

All five stages were powered by ❤️
au / 📍Mount Baw Baw, VIC (slides 1-6)

Main Stage
4x Evo 7TH
4x Evo 7T
5x F124
1x F1201 (centre fill)

+ Evo 2 + BR118 monitoring

Side Stage
2x Res 4
6x F121

+ Quest band monitor package

un:send / 📍 Tallarook, VIC (slides 6-12)

Main Stage
4x Evo 6E
6x F221 (2x in end-fire cardioid configuration)
2x F101 infill

+ PSM18 & BR121 Monitoring

Side Stage
4x F1201.2 (four point configuration)
2x BR221

/ 📍Coburg Velodrome, VIC

Stage 3
2x Evo 7TH
6x Evo 7T
11x F124
2x Evo 6EH
2x F215

+ PSM12 & F215 monitoring

Cat’s out of the bag!

This one’s been a long time coming, but we are so excited to have launched our new Evo 7 touring rig on one of the best dancefloors we have the privilege of supplying audio for, ’s Deep Jungle stage last weekend.

We’ve been slowly acquiring enough boxes over the last few years to make this system happen, and are stoked with the end result.

A massive thank you to SF for having us back once again & James Melani from for facilitating our sound design into the overall stage design.

Main PA
6x Evo 7TL
6x Evo 7TH
12x Evo 7T
15x F124
6x F221

Sidefill
4x Evo 6E

Infill
4x Evo 6EH
4x F215
2x F1201

Delay
4x Evo 7E

DJ Monitoring
2x PSM18
2x BR121

Circle of Live Monitoring .live
2x PSM12
4x F1201.2
2x BR118

Amplification, control and processing by
NST Audio
Full Fat Audio
Allen & Heath
IGS Audio
ONEstage

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While some of the team were on a boat, the other half were inside a dormant volcano for this year’s edition of ⛰️

With two nights of programming, we provided audio and backline for their fifth edition. Thanks again to the team at Ballista for having us!

Main PA
4x Evo 7
2x F215
4x F121
2x F124

+ 2x F1201 infill

Monitoring
2x PSM18
2x BR121

Very excited to welcome the new Evolution 2 to our rental stock! We opted for the tri-amped version for added flexibility and control.

You’ll be seeing a lot of these versatile speakers over the coming festival season as infill, outfill, small PA configurations and all the rest.

It’s been a while since we’ve posted (we’ve got a lot of catching up to do!)

To kick things off before the season gets into full swing, a hazy weekend in the Otways for .i.ker a few weeks ago. We provided audio for two stages, an indoor and outdoor one with different needs, bespoke deployments and some really nice results.

Outdoor Stage
4x Evo 6 EH
4x F215
4x F124

+ 2x Res 4 & BR121 as monitoring

Indoor Stage (four point config)
2x F1201
2x F101
2x BR221

Into a New Year and we spent it enjoying the sun and a promising bush doof event at the beginning of their journey .au

LET THEM EAT CAKE.

Stage 3:

Main:
8x Evo7
8x F124
3x F221

Infill: 2x 1201

Booth: 2x PSM18, 2x BR121

Stage 4:

Main:
6x Evo7
6x F221

Balcony Fill: 2x F101

Booth: 2x PSM12, 2x BR118

V.I.P After Party- Werribee Mansion

Room 1:

Main:
2x Evo6
6x F121

Booth: 2x PSM18

Room 2:

Main:
2x Res 4
2x F121

Booth: 2x PSM 12

Lawn Chill Stage:

2x F1201
2x BR121

DIEGA FESTIVAL 25

2x Evo6
4x F121

All Stages powered by and processing by

Some memories of the last few weeks of gigging for us here at Purple.

Kicking off the run was our good friends at Homesick, putting on an incredible display of stage design & performance in an iconic space, The Thornbury Theatre. We ran a 2 over 2 formation with the Evo 7’s and two blocks of 3 in cardioid for the F121s

📍
🔊 8x Evo 7, 6x F121 (2x cardioid), 2x PSM18, 4x QM12MP
🔊 + backline

A week later we drove an hour east to the small town of Crossover for the second Zeerust. A weekend long festival sporting multiple smaller spaces, as well as iconic outdoor performances. It’s always such a pleasure working with the Z crew, and we can’t wait to see what they do next!

📍 Crossover, VIC
🔊 Main Stage: 4x Evo 6, 6x F121, 2x PSM 18
🔊 Cave: 2x F1201, 2x BR121, 1x PSM 12
🔊 Dungeon: 2x Res 4, 2x F121, 1x PSM 12
🔊 Pond: 2x F101, 1x F121, 2x QM12MP
🔊 Faraway Tree: 2x DBR
🔊 + all backline provided by us

Last weekend saw two incredible, but vastly different audio deployments on the same day. The first was for long-standing friend of Purple, Echo Beach by Finding Figaro. Always upgrading year after year, and as capacities get larger saw our biggest Echo deployment to date, with 10x Evo’s a side on top of 4x F124 per side. One of our favourite events of the calendar and a must attend!

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🔊 10x Evo 7, 8x F124, 2x PSM 18, 2x BR121, 4x QM12MP

And lastly, Daybreak Festival. We were very excited to tackle the acoustically challenging space of an above ground, concrete-laden carpark and were satisfied with the results. Running a broadside cardioid sub array gave us horizontal directivity control with bass which was needed for neighbours close-by, and we were able to keep the dance floor at 100dB at 20m without getting noise complaints from neighbours

Two stages in Canberra for ! Our interstate adventures remained in full swing, with Digi being our first time ever setting up a rig in the capital last weekend.

We had a lot of fun with this one, and got some seriously impressive results with the delta sub array. There isn’t always the infrastructure available to break from traditional left/right stacking so a massive thank you to Digi for giving us creative & physics freedom with this deployment.

We achieved super wide coverage with the R4 outfills on top of the F121 subs, operating at a really narrow frequency band asymetrically. This gives the subs a really low workload and super high efficiency, widening the bass even further throughout the dancefloor.

Main PA (stage 1):
8x Evo 7
6x F124 (delta array)
6x F121
2x Res 4 (outfill)
+ PSM18 & BR121 monitoring

Main PA (stage 2):
2x Evo 6
4x F121
+ PSM12 monitoring

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