The Xbox stage saw crowds of up to 35,000, and featured a diverse range of headliners, including Them Crooked Vultures - a supergroup featuring John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) - Girl Talk, STS9 and Raphael Saadiq among many others.
LD Systems deployed a main FOH rig comprising two arrays of eight full-range X-Line elements. Xn boxes were used for out-fills.
"This is our sixth year now serving the festival and every year we've used the X-Line system," says Ausmus. "X-Line is a known quantity for us and has always produced excellent results. The challenge here is that up to five bands play each day for crowds as large as 35,000 people; we need a system that delivers consistently excellent audio for all the acts, a system that sounds good with minimal tweaking."
The PA was powered by EV TG and PL series remote control amps running IRIS-Net control and supervision software. Performance was further optimised with EV's latest FIR-Drive FIR filter-based processing.
(Jim Evans)
