Why Music Festivals Sound Better Than Ever | WIRED

Did you know that a simple speaker completely transformed modern music festivals? A vertical line array is a loudspeaker system that stacks speakers on top of each other so that sound is more evenly distributed on a horizontal plane. To learn more about line array, WIRED spoke with sound engineer Dave Rat. Dave, who has provided audio for Coachella since 2001, breaks down exactly how these speakers work, and why modern music festivals sound so much better than they used to.



Check out more of Dave Rat at http://ratsound.com, http://youtube.com/daverat and http://daverat.com



Director: Efrat Kashai

Director of Photography: Ricardo Pomares

Editor: Richard Trammell

Expert: Dave Rat



Producer: Efrat Kashai

Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi

Associate Producer: Brandon White

Production Manager: Peter Brunette

Production Coordinator: Kevin Balash



Camera Operator: Shay Eberle-Gunst

Audio: Will Miller

Production Assistant: Phillip Arliss



Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch

Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant

Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen

Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

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