"The new equipment made an impact from the day it arrived," says Eclipse's MD Andy Collins, "we're definitely the big boys in town now."
Eclipse, headquartered in Ipswich, is a company that has grown out of Andy Collins' journey through all aspects of the sound business - from retailing, to DJ-ing, to providing small PA rigs for local bands and weddings. "We accrued such a lot of equipment that it was easier to expand into a bona fide rental company." Eclipse was founded in 2003, and has grown steadily in its local market, building a reputation as a retailer, as a rental provider and as a system installer.
Now Eclipse has purchased an Electro-Voice XLD compact line-array package, 12 XLD281 top boxes plus four XLC215 bass bins, powered by EV's new Tour Grade amplifiers, after a successful trial at the Felixstowe town festival in August, attracting 35,000 people to Langer Park over the weekend. The system is completed by a 48-channel Midas Legend L3000 analogue console, all delivered by Shuttlesound.
(Jim Evans)
