case study

WONDERFRUIT FESTIVAL
THAILANDRDC ensures forbidden fruit gets thrown long distanceat vibrant Thai festival

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The Challenge
TO DELIVER HIGH QUALITY, LONG-THROW AUDIO
WITHIN A CONTAINED TENTED AREA

W

onderfruit is a 5 day, annual
arts, music and lifestyle festival
attended by around 20,000
visitors daily, which takes place at
The Fields of Siam Country Club,
near Pattaya in Chonburi Province,Thailand. Since it’s inception in 2014,
the spectacular festival has developeda vibrant pan-Asian focus. Although
it’s early focus rotated international
headliners with local talent, more
recently the event has added elementsfrom the wider region’s strongnightlife ecosystem. It’s eclectic, it’shugely popular and shines a positive
light on South East Asia’s blossoming
electronic music scene. The 2019
renewal was as diverse as ever with ahost of multi-faceted sets, including a
number of live performances.

Located in a large tent on the site, The
Forbidden Fruit stage, at Wonderfruit’srequest, was taken over in 2019 byRainbow Disco Club (RDC) of Japan,
with the intention of reproducing thesound and atmosphere of that idyllic
festival. When the oﬀer was made,RDC’s Masahiro Tsuchiya was clear
about one non-negotiable element- it had to be a Pioneer Pro Audio
Sound system. He explains:

ProAudio-Case-Study-Wonderfruit.indd 2-3“We’ve been using Pioneer Pro Audio speakers for quite
a long time at RDC and that experience has left us in
no doubt about the quality of their sound. After we
received the oﬀer we set a condition that the installationof Pioneer Pro Audio was non-negotiable. We knew that
this would enable us to recreate high quality sound withno stress on the audience or artists.”
Wonderfruit’s founder and organiser, Pete Phornprapha
had experienced the vibe at RDC:

We’ve been using Pioneer Pro Audio speakers for quite
a long time at RDC and that experience has left us in no
doubt about the quality of their soun

Gino Liguori | Co-Owner | Cristó“Two years ago I went to Rainbow Disco Club and I really
liked it. The vibe was really cool, the music was great andthe sound was amazing, so this year I was playing aroundwith the idea of a couple of takeovers by record labels
or events that we admire. Obviously RDC was on the list
so I contacted Masa and he agreed. RDC is known for its
great sound, so when they said they wanted to use thesame system we were very happy about that!”

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be used for a wide variety of applications. The XY-Series
meets all of these key requirements.”

THE SOLUTION
Combining XY-3B and XY-2 in a
4-point configuration

With multiple stages using line-arrays in simultaneous
action at Wonderfruit, the Forbidden Fruit stage wasnotable for deploying a point source system to great
eﬀect. The sound inside the tent was praised fromall quarters as being very natural, with the center sub
providing a warmth which helped to envelop the wholespace. All the DJs who played through the system werevery happy and the evidence of the audience reaction non-stop dancing - demonstrated the important part itplayed in creating a superb atmosphere.
Co-founder of Wonderfruit, Montonn Jira was very
happy with the response:“As a festival we’ve always been known for having highstandards of lighting and audio. Pioneer Pro Audio
coming here this year has obviously added more value
and encouraged us to keep pushing and ﬁne tuning inevery area.”

Kohji Fujita who is a Japanese PA engineer
and appointed by RDC with big respectchose to use a Pioneer Pro Audio system
based around the XY-3B. He had used XY152 and XY-122 speakers at RDC for quite
some time, but for this particular space theXY-3B was better suited to what was a longthrow application. The system comprised
2 x XY-3B and 2 x XY-218HS per side at thefront, supplemented by 1 x XY-3B, 1 x XY218HS and 1 x XY-2 per side at the rear. An
additional XY-218HS was used centrally. Oneof the key factors faced within the space was
the ﬂuctuation in temperature. The XY-3B biamp conﬁguration enabled the engineers on
the ground complete control of the high andmid-high frequencies. Previous experienceof the XY-218S was improved upon withthe horn load of the XY-218HS, helping tobroaden out the sound.

Allowing the takeover of the Forbidden Fruit stageby Rainbow Disco Club was clearly a smart move by
the organizers, given the responses from all those inattendance. Pioneer Pro Audio’s XY-3B system was verymuch part of the package. Would you want to work withthis sound system again? Masa smiles:“Of course!!!”Asked about the XY-Series’ suitability foroutdoor events, Kohji explains:“When you’re delivering a ﬁxed indoor
installation you can prepare more easily
because you are not compromised bylimitations on time. The reverse is true foran outdoor event, so everything depends on
the immediate environment. What helps tomeet the demands is having a system thatis durable, portable, easy to set up, and can

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