The Lake Stage was sponsored by the BBC as an "introducing" platform for new, young and hot emerging talent. The tent was a small saddle-span design with relatively low headroom, so the Nexo Alpha PA supplied by Adlib was ground stacked, and comprised two S2 subs, two B1 bass speakers and twoM3 mid-highs.
This was powered by Camco amps with Nexo NX242 system processors, and all bands were mixed from side- stage on a Soundcraft Series 4 console, which was also used to mix six monitor sends.
A standard Adlib outboard FX rack contained a Lexicon PCM 70, Yamaha SPX 990 and 2000s and an Eventide H3000 harmoniser plus Drawmer DS201 gates and DBX 1066 and 160A compressors.
Monitors were 10 Adlib AA152 wedges and an Adlib drum- fill, which gave plenty of additional SPLs in this region, all EQ'd and crossed over via a dbx 480 Drive Rack run via a remote controller. They also utilised Adlib wedges as reference speakers for the mix position on stage left. This stage was run by Richy Nicholson and Ben Booker.
Over in the Film & Music tent, an AadlibFD system was in action, with a Yamaha M7CL console for FOH and another for monitors, plus wedges, drum- fill and a selection of mics similar to the Lake stage. The system was processed by another dbx 480 Drive Rack, and driven by Crown pulse amps for the tops and Powersofts for the bottom end. This was looked after by Steve Pattison and Otto Kroymann.
On duty at the Cabaret Stage were Michael Flaherty and Kenny Kristiansen with an Adlib FD2 system, with the same crossover and amplifier set up as Film & Music. They did a side-stage mix from a Yamaha LS9-32 console, and the monitors were the AA121 wedges. A selection of headset and radio mics including Shure hand-helds were supplied for this stage, along with a Shure Premier radio system.
(Jim Evans)
