CDC seven mixes Glastonbury Glade Stage
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Sound-Services put in a Cadac CDC seven live sound console FOH, for its audio performance, allowing the audience to fully appreciate the ambisonic configuration of the Funktion-One Evo system.
Sound-Services installed a Funktion-One Evo Touring system, comprising a main-stage FOH system with four additional positions; the six loudspeaker positions arranged in a perfect hexagon, 36 meters in diameter, to create the sound-field. The ‘Experimental Ambisonic Sound-field’ was not a discreet configuration but a system design wherein all loudspeaker positions conjoined to generate a sound location within the sound-field, with various sounds emanating from particular loudspeaker positions.
The complete CDC seven mix system included a CDC I/O 6448 stagebox and CDC MC Dante Bridge. The 96 input, 56 buss CDC seven features a 36 fader, dual 23.5 inch high contrast HD touch screen hardware control surface. Combined with the CDC OS, this provides Cadac’s intuitive, “high-agility” swipeable graphical operator experience.
The other key performance feature is the proprietary MegaCOMMS HD audio protocol. With a total through-system propagation delay from on-stage inputs to outputs, including all console processing and A-D / D-A conversions, in 37 samples (@ 96 kHz) – under 400μs – it is the industry’s lowest latency protocol. The resulting sonic performance is described by Sound-Services’ FOH engineers, Flynn McBurney and Danny Cooklin as “out of this world”.
The Glade Stage featured a diverse roster of artists including house act Paranoid London, melodic house duo Gorgon City, rave hero A Guy Called Gerald, Steve Hillage’s cosmic trance band System 7, The Orb, prog house duo Way Out West, the dubtastic Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart, ska legends The Beat, and tech-house duo Layo and Bushwacka. Proceedings were brought to a close on Saturday night with back-to-back sets from renowned progressive house DJs Sasha and John Digweed.
Sound-Services managing director, Curtis Gilmore, said: “We were nervous at first about using a brand new desk on a show of this size but after hearing it on a demo, we decided that we couldn’t do without it. The sound is so pure and clear. It is definitely one of the best sounding shows that we have been a part of and the Cadac CDC seven played a huge part in this. We look forward to using this desk at many shows in the future.”
(Jim Evans)
