South West Group took advantage of the demanding festival situation to run a live demonstration of the new Lynx line-array system from VMB, also distributed in the UK by MilTec. The system comprised eight Lynx V8 active top boxes, with six Lynx active 218 subwoofers per side, driven through the new Ark 48 system processor.
Operations manager, Mark Bott, explained: "We'd already heard the VMB system at the manufacturer's headquarters in Spain and were suitably impressed with the sound from such a compact system. We wanted to put the Lynx through its paces and the Park Stage was the perfect opportunity. We were allocated a very limited weight to fly from the speaker towers and the VMB line array meant we could get everything we wanted into the air with very little flying equipment.
"The Park Stage is erected in a natural amphitheatre and the line-array allowed us to control more effectively the focus area of the sound. Whilst adhering to all the noise regulations, we also had an audience of 20,000 and everybody was very happy with the system."
Further MilTec-distributed equipment included two VMB APB 118 and two VMB ADP 215 two-way powered speakers in use as drum- fills on the Park stage, two Ecler CKL7000 systems running in the Stonebridge bar, 26 MT IP-rated LED battens on the John Peel stage, and a further six, alongside three moving heads from PR Lighting: a single XL1200 with two XL700 profiles, on the BBC introducing stage.
(Jim Evans)
