Each side of the soundstage, two large cherry-pickers each supporting a hang of eight Xvls three-way line-array enclosures. Below each crane were ground-stacked eight x X-Line subs. EV's Precision Series remote-controlled amplifiers, the P3000RL, 24 units in all, powered the system. With the pyrotechnics triggered by time code, the music was all playback - with the exception of a saxophone soloist who, using an EV RE-20 wireless mic, was suspended from another cherry-picker. The compere, using an EV RE-1 wireless mic, provided live commentary.FOH engineer Andy Reed said: "I was very impressed with the performance of these mics, the flying sax player was about 120m away from our mix position, and the compere was about 500m away, but we had them both on hi-power settings and the mics performed immaculately."
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
