Have a upcoming week of shows on the Carnival cruise lines Imagination ships. Wondering if anyone knows of the audio system onboard?
I have done a few special event cruises on Carnival.
The main showroom was a distribited system with 3 "rings"of delay speakers and a center cluster above the proscenium. Smaller underhang boxes for the loges and voms.
The ships I was on had all EV speakers (deltamax for the cluster and delay).
It works well for the variety type shows the cruise line produces, but not as much punch as you would expect for a pop/rock act. The show producers brought in extra subs and a small deck stacked pa to augment the house gear.
The smaller lounges are pretty basic...think of a B club rig in the biggest of these and speakers on sticks type systems in the rest.
Power is usually 50hz if you have any older analog gear that doesn't like that. Cheap walwart supplies will run very hot or die... bring a few spares.
The cruise lines all have special event coordinators who can arrange stepdown transformers and a tie-in, but they need lots of notice as this is not a normal duty for the ships electricians.
Sixthman in Atlanta does a lot of special events on Carnival. You could try reaching out to them if you need more advice/info. Rodney is their production guy and he is great!
