KINROSS, Scotland – A rainy and windy weekend didn't stop more than 80,000 people from attending the T in The Park Festival. Adlib's audio crew was also there once again, at King Tut's Wah Wah Tent, which featured Ellie Goulding, Empire of the Sun, We Are Scientists, Diana Vickers, Mumford & Sons and David Guetta.
Adlib designed and installed a JBL VerTec PA system with 10 flown VT4889 elements per side and nine ground-stacked VT4880A subs.
New for this year, the crew ran the subs in cardioid mode, with two stacks of 2 cabinets pointing forward and one in the middle facing back, which helped spread the general coverage and concentrated the sound output into the audience.
It was the first time they had tried this configuration in the tent, which sounded "exceptional and very appropriate," according to Es Siahi, who was joined by Adlib's Kenny Perrin, Otto Kroyman, Laura Davis and Mike Flaherty.
The stage was approximately 20 meters wide and the tent was approximately 120 meters long, so plenty of coverage was needed. The system also had to be dynamic and flexible enough to deal with a wide array of musical genres, which is another great plus with the VerTec.
They used two L-Acoustics ARCs for outfills and dV-DOSCs for infills to cover the centre sections of audience.
System processing was achieved using Adlib's standard Dolby Lake processor set up, run via a wireless remote tablet, complete with BSS graphics, Drawmer gates, a selection of Avalon, dbx 160a and 160SL compressors.
The monitor console was a Yamaha PM5D, a standard Adlib festival choice, and this was running 16 Adlib low profile MP3 wedges and 2 L-Acoustics dV SUBS, used for atmospherics and movement behind the drums.
The PA was driven by a combination of Camco Vortex 6 amps (for the VerTec mid highs) and Lab.gruppen PLM 14000s with the inbuilt Dolby Lake processing, which powered the subs and the monitor system.
At FOH a Midas H3000 was selected because it is a mixing desk that most sound engineers know well, chosen to meet the needs of the full roster of performers, tight changeover times and a variety of visiting engineers.
Adlib also provided an outboard package that included TC M2000 multi-effects units, Yamaha SPX 2000s, Lexicon PCM 91s and others. Some guest engineers also brought in their own outboard, which was linked into the facilities.
Adlib also provided a full mics-and-stands package.
"Everything went very smoothly from our perspective," said Es Siahi, who has worked on three out of five Adlib T in the Park productions. "It's one of our favorite festivals – the schedule is completely full-on, the line up exciting and varied and everyone on site is helpful and friendly. It's such a well-run festival and we are always really happy to be there."
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