GV Audio celebrates with DYNACORD Cobra successes

Straubing/Leeuwarden, November, 2009 The Frisian Street Festival in the Dutch town of Leeuwarden is one of the major attractions in the Netherlands' events calendar. For one weekend a year, the streets and squares of the town are converted into a single giant stage – for acrobats, musicians and actors. On the two main stages, Oldehoofsterkerkhof and Gouverneursplein, a large number of bands this year provided a programme rich in variety.

In order to do justice to each of the different genres, which ranged from reggae to funk to hard rock, technicians from the local rental company, GV Audio, assigned a DYNACORD Cobra system to each of the two stages. For the Oldehoofsterkerkhof, they opted for a flown Cobra-2 system comprising twelve Cobra Tops and Cobra Subs. The power was supplied by four DYNACORD H5000 power amplifiers. For the Gouverneursplein, they used a stacked Cobra-4 system comprising eight Cobra PWHs, four Cobra-4 Tops and two Cobra-4 far-field cabinets. These were driven by two H5000 and H2500 power amplifiers with integrated RCM-26 modules that made the comfortable operation and remote supervision of the devices possible.

At the same time, other events were taking place in and around Leeuwarden and these, too, were benefitting from the energetic support of the sound team from GV Audio led by company MD Gerard Visser and from the power and versatility of the DYNACORD Cobra. In the "Poppodium Romein", the sound reinforcement for a talent competition, the 7th annual "Homenoizfestival", came from a Cobra-2 system comprising four Cobra-2 Tops and six Cobra Subs. Then there was the well-known Dutch rock band "Vangrail", also relying on the proven skills of the GV Audio team and its impressive arsenal. For its concerts in Kornhorn and Noordijk, six Cobra-2 Tops and Cobra PWH Subs provided the requisite punch and transparency.

About GV Audio


Based in Leeuwarden, GV Audio is a rental company offering lighting and sound systems of all kinds for events ranging from concerts to weddings, corporate functions and theatrical productions. GV was the first company in the Benelux countries to put its faith in DYNACORD Cobra systems: "The great advantage of these systems from our point of view," says Remon Visser, GV Audio's stage equipment specialist, "is the sheer variety of applications to which they lend themselves." Currently, the company boasts over 50 Cobra enclosures in its inventory, making it the largest Cobra rental park in the region. In 2009 alone, GV Audio deployed the Cobra something like 400 times, and after investing further recently in the compact line array system with DYNACORD's partner Electric Sound Benelux, Visser expects to top that with 460 Cobra events in 2010.

About the DYNACORD Cobra

The DYNACORD Cobra is an extremely compact, easy to operate and yet very powerful line-array system. It is notable for its broad horizontal coverage, low distortion and outstanding insusceptibility to acoustic feedback.
The Cobra-2 system is designed to provide high-quality sound reinforcement for events in smaller marquees or halls requiring throws of up to 40 metres and around 1,000 square metres of coverage.
The active 4-way Cobra-4 system is conceived as a sound reinforcement system for medium-sized marquees, halls and open air events requiring throws of up to 80 metres. Among the Cobra's leading references are productions for 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean and Eric Burdon.

snapshot, dj/gm, 30th November 2009