Shuttlesound first supplied Tour X to the Loughborough-based rental company in March 2009 when it was one of the first customers in the UK to purchase the new enclosures. "EV's Tour X appealed to us for a theatre show we were doing on the Brighton fringe, and we made an initial investment of a stack a side," says Event Engineering's Mark Thornton.
The price:performance ratio of Tour X ("which is also very loud", adds Mark Thornton) proved an attractive rental proposition, the system paying for itself quite quickly by being such an all-rounder. "Small corporate awards, conferences, outdoor concerts, even the new Vintage at Goodwood cultural festival - the Tour X has proved so versatile that we've doubled our inventory, adding 12" wedges and 18" subs to build a system for even larger events."
Thornton has also added 16 EV ZX1 compact cabinets to the package. "The ZX1s on poles on top of single subs are an ideal portable high-output PA,2 he says. And, to this end, he has just bought new TX1181 subs.
Thornton continues: "We actively chose not to buy a line array but to go for the flexibility of a traditional system, which we can use for a lot more events. The remarkable thing about Tour X is that the same components will take you from a compact band rig to an outdoor system for a festival, handling all your conference work on the way."
(Jim Evans)
