Speech Day and the Summer Prom are always the two most important dates in its yearly calendar and both were reinforced by Subfrantic's Turbosound Aspect rig.
"The system for Speech Day had to cover about 2,000 people, but there was no option to fly the rig so we had to use a ground stacked system," says Subfrantic operations manager Sean Murphy.
"As the audio programme was predominantly speech, plus choral and classical music, it wasn't a bass-heavy production so we put in six TA-890L and 12 TA-890H, rotating the mid-high section of the latter through 90ยบ so we could stack them vertically as three stacks per side."
Meanwhile, stage monitoring used four TQ-310s, with power and control by a combination of Turbosound T series amplifiers and LMS series controllers.
"The system worked perfectly. The event ran smoothly with clear, crisp audio for all the elements," says Murphy.
The Summer Prom had a somewhat bigger audience of around 6,500 and featured musicians from the school and the band of the Welsh Guards.
"We knew this system had to be flown, but budgetary constraints made it very difficult to do," says Subfrantic proprietor and general manager Steve Davies. "But, having looked at a range of different options, we found a solution that worked really well."
The solution Subfrantic settled on was six flown TA-890H, with eight TA-890L ground-stacked either side. Fills were provided by a pair of TA-890H stacked vertically on the low cabinets, again using T series amplifiers and LMS series controllers.
(Jim Evans)
