Audile and SSE Audio are two of the most prominent audio companies that used XTA equipment on many of the main festivals. Between them, they serviced stages at events including Reading and Leeds, both V2008 venues, the Isle of Wight Festival, Glastonbury, Download, Cropredy, Bestival, Camp Bestival, Creamfields, Global Gathering, Latitude, Oxegen, Gatecrasher Summer Sound System, Escape In The Park and Beach Break Live, along with brand new events like Summer In The Park and The Hop Farm Festival.
Audile's festival rigs comprise Funktion One self-powered Resolution 5s with F-221 subs (the latter featuring Funktion One/XTA A6 amp modules) and passive Resolution-5s/4s with F-218 subs, driven by MC2 amplifiers. Control for the systems is by XTA DP448s and GQ600s, with C2 compressors, G2 gates and a D2 dynamic EQ in the inserts rack.
C2s and G2s are also a mainstay of SSE Audio's festival rigs, with DP226s and DP448s controlling L-Acoustics V-Dosc systems.
With the diverse range of festivals that Audile works on, it is very important that the company's systems can cope with any style of music. "We strongly believe that an audio system should be transparent, from the signal entering the drive to sound exiting the speakers," says Audile director Rob Ashworth.
"The sound of a particular music style is shaped on the mixing console, so a correctly specified and set-up system will cope with any style. Our gear is chosen for its transparency and XTA drive is the best there is. It sounds great with any music."
Spencer Beard, operations manager at SSE Audio adds: "The audio quality is very good and, most importantly, XTA is accepted by a lot of engineers. The processors are also very easy and intuitive to use."
(Jim Evans)
