"The band are avid Turbosound fans and normally tour with an Aspect system," says Turbosound's UK sales manager, Paul McMullan. "So when Systems Etc, the audio rental company supplying the equipment for this tour, asked if they could try out our new Flex Array series, we felt it was the perfect opportunity to show them just what it can do in a live environment."
The FOH system comprised four TFA-600H compact trapezoidal three-way enclosures in 'A' mode - its line array mode - ground stacked on top of three TSW-218 subs per side. A further pair of TFA-600H in 'B' mode - with its horn rotated and in virtual point source mode - on a fourth TSW-218 cabinet, acted as in-fill for the first few rows of the audience.
Amplification was via two racks of T-Series amplifiers, consisting of six T-45 and four T-25, with Turbosound LMS-D26s as control across the entire system.
"St John's Church is a highly reverberant space, having a lot of very hard, reflective surfaces," says McMullan. "Flex Array's horizontal dispersion of 75?, as opposed to most other line arrays which have a fixed 90? or greater dispersion, is the perfect solution to cope with such a space. It gave us greater control and allowed us to focus the energy on the audience area. The results we obtained were extremely good and everyone was suitably impressed."
(Jim Evans)
