Implemented under the mindful eye of J. Bradley of Seattle-based Pacific Northwest Theatre Associates, the WideLine array was deployed in time for the club's grand opening earlier this year. Flown above the stage in an eight-per-side configuration and buttressed below by a half-dozen ground-dwelling subwoofers, the rig has the power to easily 'blow the lid off the joint' with its 140° wide-angle dispersion, yet is so small in size that most of the 1500+ capacity crowd members on any given night don't even realise it's there. Big Easy General Manager Greg Marchant heard his first WideLine rig last year on the Bob Dylan tour and was immediately hooked. Well schooled in the art and science of audio engineering, Marchant has 22 years of production experience under his belt.

"If anything, first hearing the WideLine outdoors with Dylan made me more critical, and maybe a little sceptical," he confesses. "I was impressed with its clarity and the transparency of its sound, and it was fairly flat from top-to-bottom on the frequency scale. Right away it moved onto our shortlist of contenders for the Big Easy's sound, and didn't take long thereafter before it was chosen hands-down for the task. Once installed in the club, it gave us everything we needed in terms of performance, and occupied such little airspace that there virtually isn't a seat in the house that doesn't have a direct sightline to the stage."