Setting up boxes, amplifiers and microphones are an essential part of any audio pre-show preparation. Once the show goes up great pleasure is derived in being behind the mixing console and engineering the best possible sound production for performers and the audience.

Audio Progress was one of the first audio companies to use the LEAP (Loudspeaker Enclosure Analysis Programme) which worked successfully for the design of the company’s proprietary built boxes. Recently Audio Progress introduced SMAARTLIVE to further enhance the musicality of the design in the box closures and to optimise the performance within all the sound systems EAW or JBL proprietary design.

EAW Line Array

The EAW 860 Line Array system provides an intelligible long throw sound required for extremely large events. Audio Progress was the first company to import a line array system into New Zealand. This was for the summer season of 1997-1998 and the system consisted of eight EAW boxes powered by Crest 9001, 7001 and 4601 amplifiers. Today Audio Progress is the only New Zealand audio company that has such a system operating 24 EAW 860s and eight 940s powered by Crest 9200, 7200 and 4601 amplifiers.

The EAW Line Array systems have been used effectively at a large number of indoor and outdoor events throughout the lower North Island. These have included such indoor live concerts such as Air Supply at the Michael Fowler Centre, True Colours and the National Finals of the secondary schools’ Rockquest at the Town Hall, Wellington.

Outdoor events where the EAW systems have been used successfully include the Warratahs (Carterton), Concerts @ Cooks (Wanganui), Bowl of Brooklands (New Plymouth), Fireworks Spectacular (Trentham), Christmas with the Stars at Reignier School (Taradale), Palmerston North’s Relay for Life and Christmas in the Square.

JBL Concert Systems

In the mid eighties the founder of Audio Progress designed and built up a JBL Concert System based on the Maryland Sound JBL Concert Design used for the Neil Diamond World Tour. The first concert system of four boxes soon increased to 32 boxes consisting of 16 mid-highs and 16 sub-boxes. Recent modifications to these boxes include DDS flares and JBL Neodymium Drivers.

The JBL Concert Systems have been used for many high profile live concerts including: Will Miller’s National Tour, Black-Eyed Peas, Salmonella Dub, Shihad, Trinity Roots, Powderfinger, Charlie Pride, Moby, Glen Campbell, Paul Kelly, Massey University and International Pacific College Commencements, Orientations and Graduations .

Speakers To cater for a wide variety of occasions, events, conferences and performances Audio Progress also uses EAW 650, EAW NT56, EAW NT29 systems. EAW 860 Line Array EAW 650 JBL (AP) Concert boxes EAW NT Series ART 300 Monitors EAW JH 15 AP 15 x 2”
Amplifiers All systems are supported by Crest Amplifiers, BSS Processing (355 and 366), Crest, Yamaha and Soundtracs consoles. Crest 8001, 7001, 4601, 7301 Crest 9200, 7200 System Processing BSS 366 BSS 355
Consoles Crest LMX 52 Crest VX 52 Crest VX 32 Crest VX 20 Soundtracs 24 Yamaha O1V 96 Effects BSS Rev 5 Microphones Shure Sennheiser