The system comprised nine per side (three wide by three deep) TA-890H mid/high cabinets flown left and right of the stage on a Serious Stages' Lunar Boom, with a further six TA-890L 15" bass cabinets and two TSW-218 18 inch horn-loaded bass cabinets ground stacked left and right. An additional two TA-890H cabinets per side were also ground stacked, with another pair in the centre to produce the correct sound image and with eight TA-890H and four TA-890L for delay. Amplification was from Turbosound badged MC2 T-Series amplifiers, with XTA DP448 processors as system control and two bus-linked Midas H3000 mixing consoles sitting at the front of house position.
Engineers for the event were WE Audio's Wayne Barker and Mike "Bunny" Warren. "This is the fifth year Prom on The Close has taken place at Clifton College so we have a good understanding of what's needed," says Barker. "We have some fairly big environmental issues to deal with here. Housing surrounds the site and, as a result, Bristol City Council monitors noise levels very closely. This year, we had the additional challenge of it being a very windy evening. We would have struggled to keep things in hand with other systems that don't have the precise directional control of Aspect's modular point source system. The new Turbosound cabinets have proved themselves more than equal to this and many other challenges."
"We have a very rich tradition of hosting musical events at Clifton College," says Excite Management's Matthew Haynes, promoter for the event. "It's very important to us to provide an outstanding experience for our visitors and it's imperative that we are sensitive to both the nature of the site and our local residents.
"WE Audio's Turbosound Aspect system provided us with excellent audio quality and kept all concerned extremely happy."
(Chris Henry)
