Love is the message: How cutting-edge sound design brought a 360-degree disco to Broadway

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Love is the message: How cutting-edge sound design brought a 360-degree disco to Broadway
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ArticleBody:Disco was once a great unifier. This is before disco sucked in the mainstream, way before the cries of “Disco sucks!” Put aside the velvet ropes and Halston gowns, the white suits and whiter lines, the barriers to entry and roadblocks to appreciation. Disco in its most undefiled form—blending danceable R&B and marginalized cultures—was once able to do something no single group or government could: bring people together. In summer 2023, a disco of sorts brought me to Broadway.

This house sound allowed technology providers PRG North America to blend speakers from L-Acoustic’s long-throw KARA series, medium-throw A series, and short-throw X series, plus numerous sub bins for low-end reinforcement. This density of full-spectrum and point-source speakers allowed for a scalable soundtrack—up to 96 inputs, mixing the automation and real-time dB manipulation of musical scenes and live mics pushed, positioned, and summed through a DiGiCo SD7T Quantum console.

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