GLASTONBURY, U.K. — With over 200,000 people on site and well over 100 stages and venues, the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is one the highlights of Europe’s summer festival season.
For several years now, HK Audio Portable Sound products ranging from a small LUCAS to full stack Projector system could be found on various stages and performance areas, and this year was no exception.
But also for the second consecutive year, HK Audio has been part of the action at the John Peel Stage, the third-largest stage of the festival, providing the on-stage monitoring.
Eighteen HK Audio CT 115 15”/1.4” cabinets in biamp-mode and powered by DSM 2060 controllers and Lab.gruppen FP 10000 power amps were used for monitors. A ConTour Array — a combination of active CTA 118 subwoofers and CT 115 mid/high units — was used as a sidefill and for drumfills.
“Last year, we used all HK Audio gear for this stage, and the results were outstanding,” said Mike Taylor, production manager for the John Peel Stage. “This year, again, everything went great. The crew and the artists were all very satisfied.” Head monitor engineer Will Fisher agreed, and Taylor backed up his stated opinion with his purchase of his own ConTour array system “for smaller gigs.”
Bruce Springsteen showed up for an impromptu session this year on the John Peel stage with GasLight Anthem. The lineup also included Echo and the Bunnymen, The Wombats, White Lies, Jarvis Cocker and the Doves, among others.
Concert Sound Clair supplied the audio equipment for the stage. They used an HK Audio Cohedra Compact Line Array System consisting of a total of 16 CDR 108 mid/high units and eight CDR 210 C subwoofers as a delay line.
“We already have a lot of experience using Cohedra Compact in situations where we needed a system with low weight and small size but with great output and extensive throw,” said Andy Davies, general manager of Concert Sound Clair. “We’ve been roundly impressed by its performance. That’s why, even after our merger with Clair Brothers, if we run out of our own equipment in the warehouse, we still like to rent the Cohedra Compact system.”
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