Those New Yorkers in and around Liberty Park felt strange vibrations in June when New Jersey’s Big Mo Productions deployed sixteen EM Acoustics Quake subwoofers to handle the Liberty Jam festival and Independence Day Fireworks celebrations. 

Situated on the Jersey waterfront with the stunning backdrop of Manhattan, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the system - specified by Big Mo’s Greg Rosenkrans and Jesse Hoefflinger - comprised a mono block of sixteen Quakes eight wide, two high across the front of the stage to cover the entire 16,000 capacity show area.  Flown above the system were 24 L’Acoustics KUDO line array elements, and the whole system was powered from Powersoft K-Series amplifiers and processed by Lake Contour processors.  Two Powersoft K10 amplifiers powered all sixteen subwoofers, with ample headroom due to the enclosure’s efficiency. 

The Liberty Jam festival lineup included Cheap Trick, George Clinton, Los Lobos, Patty Smith, The Smithereens, Exit 105, Fab Faux and John Eddie. Along with the main system were EM Acoustics EMS-215 subwoofers as sidefill and drum fill subs, EMS-152 enclosures as front-fill and L’Acoustics 112XT floor monitors. 

EM Acoustics Mike Wheeler, who was over in the USA for the show, comments “BMP were the first folks in the USA to buy Quakes, and it’s great to see them increasing their inventory regularly and putting them out on shows like this.  It’s also really pleasing for us to see that they are causing jaws to drop all over the country when Greg and his colleagues fire them up!” Big Mo’s Greg Rosenkrans comments “Time after time, I put these subs out on shows, push them harder than I thought possible, and still they keep going.  My clients are thrilled every time I put them out, and that’s why we keep coming back.”