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Isle Of Wight Festival Sounds Great With Canegreen
Canegreen unveiled its new Meyer Sound 700-HP Ultrahigh-power Subwoofers for the first time at the Isle of Wight Festival, continuing their policy of investing in new equipment to give clients the best sound possible. Twent-four new subs provided the bottom end to complement the Meyer Milo line-array system and the favourable comments from incoming engineers, production personnel and the audience throughout the weekend paid testament to the quality of the sound.
This year’s festival, the third on the Isle of Wight site, brought 35,000 visitors to the island for the three-day event; featuring headliners the Stereophonics, The Who and David Bowie.
Canegreen’s project manager for the event, Pete Hughes, designed the PA system that worked within the strict licensing restrictions concerning sound levels at the site. With residents close by, keeping sound coverage tightly within the festival’s arena was of utmost importance. With this in mind the new Meyer 700-HP cabinets were aligned across the front of the stage to replicate the line array properties of the Milo cabinets that carried the mid and high frequencies. This allowed the bass frequencies to be steered into the inner area of the festival site in the same manner the higher frequencies were managed, therefore reducing the noise reaching areas surrounding the site. A pair of delay towers also carried Meyer Milo speakers to ensure good sound coverage for the whole of the audience enjoying the bands.
A pair of Midas XL4 mixing consoles, BSS Soundweb 9088, Klark Teknik graphic analysers and equalisers controlled the system and a range of processing equipment was supplied for all of the incoming engineers in the front of house tower. The Canegreen team also monitored the sound levels at the desk and around the site to ensure the stringent licensing conditions were adhered to.
The Isle of Wight Festival production manager, Mark Ward, commented: “The sound has been of the highest quality throughout the weekend and the licensing officer complimented us on our management of levels around the festival, which has been down to the professionalism and hard work of the Canegreen team.”
On stage Canegreen’s crew managed all of the changeovers for the bands over the three days, with Canegreen’s EAW SM15 monitors and a Midas Heritage providing a 12-way mix. The feeds on-stage were also split to feed the TV broadcast for Channel 4’s coverage of the festival over the weekend.
Pete summed up the weekend: “We stuck our necks out, tried a new system design, which included the new 700-HPs and I think this approach will be applied in the future to any sites where noise levels are an issue. This was our third year working with Solo on the Isle of Wight, the festival has grown tremendously and we are proud to be a part of creating a great weekend for 35,000 music fans.”
5th July 2004
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