Delicate Steps Up With Martin Audio at 20th Anniversary KROQ Weenie Roast

This year's KROQ Weenie Roast Y Fiesta was both a 20th anniversary musical celebration and a heartfelt remembrance for the Beastie Boys' Adam "MCA" Yauch who passed away from cancer the day before the show.

Delicate Productions, also celebrating their 20th anniversary of providing sound for KROQ's legendary event, upped the ante with the new Martin Audio Multi-cellular Loudspeaker (MLA) system, which they were using for the first time at the roast.

Held at the Verizon Amphitheatre, the event featured headliner Coldplay who had just completed three sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl, along with heavyweights Incubus, The Offspring, Silverspun Pickups, Pennywise, Angels & Airwaves, The Dirty Heads, Garbage, AWOLNATION, Grouplove, Of Monsters and Men, and Walk The Moon.

During the high-impact show with a surprise appearance by the recently reunited Soundgarden, Coldplay capped off an exceptional set featuring their hits with a solemn piano version of "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" as a tribute to Yauch and the band that broke so many musical boundaries.

The overall sound system setup consisted of 15 MLA enclosures and one MLD downfill enclosure per side for the main system, seven MLAs and one MLD per side for sidefill, 12 MLX subwoofers (three flown and nine ground-stacked), eight W8LMs for front fill, and Martin Audio LE700 stage monitors. Delicate also provided Yamaha PM5D consoles for monitors.

Delicate's crew for the Roast included Andy Turner, front-of-house tech; Brennan Houser, system tech; Steve Walsh and Manny Barajas, monitor techs; Dave Reyna, RF tech; Manny Perez and Peter Baigent, stage; and Meegan Holmes, project manager.

Asked about the Martin Audio MLA system's performance, Delicate director of touring, Jason Alt said, "It was phenomenal. Expectations for the system were great and it performed above and beyond. Given the variety of artists that played, whatever people put into it, they got out of it. Overall, every engineer that mixed on the system had a really positive experience and was blown away by the fidelity of the system."