The Stage

Diverse design

Published Monday 29 June 2009 at 14:30

ADLIB Audio supplied sound for the Love Music Hate Racism Festival 2009, staged recently at Britannia Stadium, Stoke, and organised jointly by Stoke City FC and Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

ADLIB’s crew was chiefed by Marc Peers and the system was designed by Tony Szabo, with Dave Kay looking after front of house.

The main challenge was delivering clarity for both the speeches and the musical performances - of various genres - for an audience of 20,000.

Szabo chose 16 V-DOSC speaker elements a side for the main arrays on 17m towers, coupled with 12 subs a side on the deck, including centre fill subs, plus L-Acoustics ARCs and dV-DOSC stacks for front and out fills.

The whole system was powered by L-Acoustics LA8 amplifiers. At front of house, Kay ran two Soundcraft Vi6 consoles assisted by Declan Fyans, who covered the second board.

Combining digital and analogue preparation techniques, they created show files for all the bands which contained basic parameters such as gains, filters, VCA and FX settings. The drum mix was also copied to all of the bands’ show files, so that each wasn’t starting from scratch.

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Derek Smith