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Founded in 1973 by Guido Noselli, Outline is an industry leading manufacturer of premier sound reinforcement systems. Outline develops, engineers and manufactures large, medium, and small format loudspeakers as well as innovative FPGA-based and related technologies for the concert sound and pro audio markets.
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There are over 4000+ Outline installations worldwide. We have reliable high quality products that are designed to deliver great sound in any acoustical environment.
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Our production partners throughout the world provide the highest level of professional sound for stadiums, arenas, clubs, corporate events and more for all sizes of audiences and venues.
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Outline NEWTON is a full-featured, FPGA-based multi-source processor that takes technology convergence for audio-visual systems to the next level. Discover more here!
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Stelios Kyrillidis takes delivery of the largest GTO C-12 inventory in Greece
Stelios Kyrillidis takes delivery of the largest GTO C-12 inventory in Greece The Outline rig debuts with music icon Bryan Ferry The Stelios Kyrillidis rental company in Elassona, Larissa, has taken delivery of the first Outline GTO C-12 system in Greece and the rig’s high-profile debut on arrival was a date on Bryan Ferry’s world tour at Thessaloniki’s Dassous (Forest) Theatre. The second event followed just two days later, with concerts by top Greek names Giannis Aggelakas, 1000mods, Active Member and Pyx Lax at the magnificent Vrahon Theatre in Athens. Bill Michailidis of Mega Event (Outline’s distributor in Greece) comments, “The system was a personal choice of Bryan Ferry’s sound engineer, Davide Lombardi, who assured me that he preferred this system to others he has worked with over the years. For this first set up, Giulio Gandini (R&D Engineer and Tech Support and Training specialist with Outline) came to Greece and we designed the system for this specific show together. Davide preferred to use the full-range preset (with the high-pass filter at 40Hz) to give more emphasis to the low frequencies for the upper seats at the Forest Theater. I think the system responded in the best possible way to […]
Rock under the Tuscan sun
Rock under the Tuscan sun Outline wins important new fans at Lucca Summer Festival Although Florence and Pisa without doubt top Tuscany’s tourist charts, Lucca (with traces of Iron Age settlements, good wines and more) is well worth checking out and music fans have the ideal chance to do so during the annual Lucca Summer Festival, organized by D’Alessandro & Galli in the city’s main square. The Festival’s 2018 edition was a particularly high-profile showcase for loudspeaker manufacturer Outline and the ideal debut of new-born rental firm VVP International Ltd., since, apart from Roger Waters, who performed in another location, the cast on stage featured a wide range of music genres: from California’s stoner rock with Queens of the Stone Age, the latest (triple-drummer) incarnation of Prog Rock icons King Crimson, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp’s Hollywood Vampires, Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, jazzy-pop songstress Norah Jones with a funky Marcus Miller band, James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt, and Italian chart toppers Gianni Morandi, Max Pezzali, Nek and Francesco Renga and Caparezza. LSF, a key gig on Europe’s summer festival circuit, was chosen as a launching pad by well-known industry figure Vincent ‘Vinnie’ Perreux for VVP, his […]
Have a terrific Halloween with Outline!
[ENG] Dear Outline supporters, we would like to inform you that our offices will be closed on 1 and 2 November. Have a nice Halloween week end! Outline team [ITA] Cari amici di Outline, vi informiamo che i nostri uffici saranno chiusi il 1 e il 2 Novembre per il ponte di Ognissanti. Vi auguriamo un buon (lungo) week end! Outline team
Outline’s Superfly – A Touring Video Diary With The Australian Pink Floyd Show
Outline’s Superfly – A Touring Video Diary With The Australian Pink Floyd Show In the midst of a globe-straddling tour that recreates the unique multi-sensory experience of a Pink Floyd live concert, the men behind TAPFS’s live sound take time out to talk about their experiences with Outline’s Superfly loudspeaker system supplied by London’s Capital Sound Hire. Previously described by FOH Trevor Gilligan as ‘…perfect!’, he and System Technician Mark Edwards discuss their respective working experiences with Superfly – Trevor talks in detail about what the system brings to his creative input while Mark focuses on how it facilitates the venue-to-venue performance consistency that helps Trevor. So grab a coffee, sit back and listen to some very happy crew…! Learn more @ superfly.outline.it
Outline adds to Global Teams
Outline adds to Global Teams Patrick Wong appointed as Asia Pacific Sales Manager Outline Srl, a worldwide leader in loudspeaker design and electronic processing, is delighted to announce the appointment of Patrick Wong to the position of Regional Sales Manager, APAC. This, the latest in a series of major recruitments within the company over the last few months, is a new position for Outline and has been created in response to the steadily increasing demand for their products throughout the region. Fluent in both Chinese and English, Patrick’s qualifications include a Bachelor in Business Administration from Western Michigan University and he joins the Outline team after a decade at Sennheiser Asia during which he successfully fulfilled roles as both team leader and regional sales manager. Based in Singapore, he will be responsible for developing each region’s business strategy, supporting Outline’s current distributors and reporting directly to the company’s Italian headquarters. “Outline is a brand with great heritage and reputation in the industry”, Patrick said. “My role will be to build upon this heritage while introducing our innovative loudspeaker systems and unique FPGA-based technologies to the APAC region. I will be heavily involved in product training and market development, engaging regularly […]
Record-breaking rock band gets even bigger
Record-breaking rock band gets even bigger Outline and Powersoft pack the punch for the unique Florence show In 2015, die-hard Foo Fighters fan Fabio Zaffagnini gathered 1,000 musicians to record a video appeal to the band to come and play in his home town of Cesena (Italy), in which “Rockin’1000” sang the US band’s “Learn to Fly” in a local park. The video went viral and FF front man Dave Grohl replied, accepting the invitation. The Cesena gig was followed by the first Rockin’1000 concert by the huge band at Cesena stadium (2016) and a Summer Camp, at Mont Blanc (2017). ROCKIN’1000 – DISCOVER MORE… The latest episode in the Rockin’1000 saga took place in July at Florence’s Artemio Franchi soccer stadium, when the “Biggest Rock Band on Earth” (1,454 performers from over thirty countries) played to an ecstatic crowd of over 13,000. The event also featured Courtney Love, the first guest artiste at a Rockin’1000 event, who performed three of her hits with Hole. Ensuring the crowd a realistic listening experience were two key brands on the international pro audio scenario, both headquartered in Italy, Outline and Powersoft, whose specialists interacted with Cisko Ridolfi and Francesco Penolazzi, respectively […]
Outline’s GTO C-12 Rises To The Top At Creamfields
Outline’s GTO C-12 Rises To The Top At Creamfields Capital Sound deploys major GTO C-12 line-source system at The World’s No1 Dance Music Festival London’s Capital Sound Hire supplied sound systems to two of the 30+ stages at his year’s Creamfields event, including a substantial Outline GTO C-12 rig for the Generator Stage. One of the world’s premier dance music events, Creamfields 2018 featured a stellar lineup of superstar DJs and artists from the worlds of EDM, house, trance, D&B, and grime, entertaining crowds of up to 70,000 across the August Bank Holiday weekend. Headliners on the Generator Stage included Vini Vici, Danny Howard, Steve Angello, Duke Dumont, Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond and Alesso. Capital designed a system for the event using part of their Outline inventory, deploying 12 GTO C-12 plus one GTO-DF (downfill) cabinets per side plus four LIPF-082 modules as front fills and 24 GTO-SUB subwoofers providing the low-frequency reinforcement essential for dance music. Capital’s design also used Outline’s latest Newton processor as the primary system controller, which fed eight Powersoft X8 amplifiers via a Dante network. Capital’s System Technician Ben Turnbull was on hand throughout the event and commented, ‘The system performed very well […]
Outline NEWTON At The Heart Of Jazz Open Festival
Outline NEWTON At The Heart Of Jazz Open Festival Michael Häck is a very well-respected freelance German system technician who this summer was the latest audio professional to discover the numerous advantages offered by Outline’s new processor, the NEWTON. One of Michael’s 2018 projects was the Jazz Open Festival in Stuttgart, this year celebrating its 25th anniversary. It is one of the largest jazz festivals in Europe, taking place in five locations throughout the city, entertaining around 45,000 people and its diverse bill this year included Gregory Porter, Jamie Callum, Jamiroquai, Joss Stone, Lenny Kravitz, Meshell Ndegeocello, Pat Metheny, The Stanley Clarke Band and dozens more international artists. Michael was responsible for two of the performance spaces, the Altes Schloss with an audience capacity of around 1,000 and the festival’s main stage, the Schlossplatz in the centre of the city which can accommodate 6,500. Michael takes up the story (want to read this in German? Click here): ‘I first became aware of NEWTON when I met Fernando (Rey Mendez, Outline’s NEWTON product specialist) at ISE 2018 when he introduced me to the unit and we discussed possible SMAART integration. We met again at prolight&sound in Frankfurt earlier this year and […]
Adlib Enjoys Busy Summer with Outline NEWTON
Adlib Enjoys Busy Summer with Outline NEWTON Merseyside-based Adlib Audio handled an extraordinarily busy festival programme through the long, hot summer of 2018. As early-adopters of Outline’s remarkable new processor, the variety and sheer volume of their workload provided an ideal platform to road-test their new NEWTON units – and road-test them they surely did. Adlib’s Senior Engineer Ian Nelson takes up the story… ‘For this summer’s festival commitments we’ve effectively used our NEWTON units in one of two ways – either as a festival console matrix system or as a full system controller. For the former, a single NEWTON device was configured as a central hub, bringing together the outputs of our dual house consoles (running as an A/B system to facilitate band changeovers) plus multiple guest consoles and our small ‘VT’ desk that deals with VT, DJs and announcements.’ ‘The two house consoles are configured to provide PA Left, Right and Sub on both analogue and AES with the VT console sending L&R on AES into the system. We allowed for two guest consoles to be connected at any one time and these could send us anything from L+R to L+R+Sub+Fill, also on both analogue and AES.’ ‘We […]
Outline and Powersoft electrify Rockin’1000, THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ROCK BAND
ENG Outline and Powersoft electrify Rockin’1000, THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ROCK BAND Rockin’1000 originally assembled in July 2015 in Cesena (Italy), with the very ambitious ideal of gathering one thousands musicians playing simultaneously to create the biggest Rock show ever, crowdfund enough money and get legendary band Foo Fighters to come and play a gig in Cesena.The success was such that the video hit millions of views worldwide, and on November 3rd, Foo Fighters gave a unique and exclusive three hours show to the Thousand, crowdfunders and volunteers who got involved in the July performance. Organised by Fabio Zaffagnini and under the direction of Marco Sabiu, the show has since become a yearly event: on the 24th July 2016, The Thousand played an 18-song concert in Cesena’s Orogel Stadium in front of an audience of 15,000 people. This year, Rockin’1000 That’s Live moved to Florence’s Artemio Franchi stadium, where The Thousand played another full gig on the 21st July with Hole’s Courtney Love’s as a special guest, and technical audio support from Italian companies Powersoft (for the amplifiers) and Outline (for the PA system). Watch the official “behind the scenes” video to discover how Powersoft and Outline solved a mind-blowing audio headache […]
What professional audio people are saying
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“The GTO was already a winner on paper, due to the box containing superior components: four 3″ (HF), four 8″ (MF), and two 15″ (LF) all in a single enclosure. However it was only when I worked with the system for the first time in front of a 700,000-strong audience that I realized that the GTO was not only far superior on paper, but also compared with anything else I had ever worked with.”
“What can I say… Working with Outline Systems is like bringing back the correct acoustic rules… but with really high technology on board fully in control without tricks… The best moment is always when we turn on the full rig… For me it’s like sitting on my Harley on a non-stop ride from the East Coast to the West Coast… Pure pleasure… Chapeau, Monsieur Noselli!… So what can I say… Nothing – just listen… louder!…”
“With over 700 shows under my belt mixing Justin Moore, I’ve never come across another system that has the sonic accuracy and headroom of Outline’s GTO C-12.”
“Right now we are using the Newton as our overall system management hub, providing all of our system EQ and control. On our own headline shows we also run the opening acts into it. It is nice not having to worry about clock synchronisation or digital noise with the Newton, and to have the flexibility to send or receive any format we need – this has been of great help through the day to day festival shows we have been doing this summer. The Newton is great – it’s been a real workhorse, and it is one unit in the rack I don’t have to worry about!”
“Outline has done a wonderful job making GTO C-12 sound fabulous right from the start – rich, potent, and with the silky smooth highs that Outline is known for. In a theatre setting, it was the most hi-fi experience, much like sitting at home listening to my reference system.”
“Managing Director Keith Davis, Senior Project Manager Martin Connolly, Project Manager Robin Conway and I sat in the back row of the upper bowl and the clarity and sonic performance of the [GTO C-12] system blew us away…the highs, mids and lows were all incredible. There was not even a hint of needing delay hangs for the O2 Arena.”
“…just done our sound check for an open air show, the [Superfly] rig breezed it, it’s absolutely fantastic, full, clear, powerful, and travels a great distance; I have been working on my processing and now have the mix very smooth, it’s a great system. The show was fantastic, I can’t believe how solid the system is outside. It’s the best I have used. It’s perfect!” | Full interview (https://vimeo.com/293948997)
“I try to mix the show the way I would want to hear it, nice and punchy with lots of vocals so the crowd can sing along. The GTO C-12 has easily accomplished that task. The system sounds even across the whole spectrum and didn’t seem to shift its tonal balance if it was driven lightly or given its head. Francis Rossi in particular is very in touch with the audience and they hang on his every quip, so having his vocal mic open and crystal clear is paramount. I go for big drums sounds, fat guitars, a good layer of BV’s and make sure all the guitar solos are present.”
“The sound produced by the guys on stage is rich, full and symphonic, and it is essential that I have a PA that capable of delivering this to all corners of the auditorium. The reach of this system is phenomenal – the people at the back of the balconies have been enjoying a far more full frequency spectrum than previously, particularly in the top end. The GTO C-12 system to me is voiced very forward, which makes it very suitable for arena-sized and smaller outdoor shows and this characteristic really helps it push the mix to all corners of the venue.”
“It was very risky and I’d never have accepted the challenge without the Outline systems, because I know them inside out!” [ref. World Youth Day in Krakow with 2.5 Million Pilgrims]
”The Outline system works great, and the settings available have enabled me to easily achieve a smooth and natural response across the entire frequency range.”
“GTO is the closest thing I found in live sound to the definition of studio monitoring. It’s so detailed that you need to treat it with respect. In some ways you have to rethink your mix and be careful not to overlook anything that will show up if it’s not handled carefully.”
“There are very few powerful PA’s on the market that also sound even, tight and clean. GTO is one of them. Its quality is outstanding and like every other Outline product is versatile and easy to manage. The excellent 3D prediction software OpenArray helps to create a perfect sound design too. The R&D team does incredible job. I started using Outline since the Butterfly days and it is always a pleasure to mix using their systems.”
“As a team we bring to professional audio the same legendary Italian passion and creativity that lead the world in many other fields. We listen to our customers so that we can create the true audience experience.“