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Martin Array at Gloucestershire’s Summer Ball
This year’s University of Gloucestershire Summer Ball, held at Cheltenham Racecourse, was made up of seven venues; this included an outdoor main stage (with 3,000 capacity) a dance tent (accommodating 1,000), three Disco/Dance Rooms, a Chillout bar and a Jazz/Irish Bar. The total number of students attending was in the region of 4,500.
In view of the size of this event — coupled with several others across the summer period — Cheltenham-based rental company Unique Sound Systems (USS) acquired some additional Martin Audio S218 subs and H3 enclosures to supplement their larger rigs, and service the smaller venues.
The main stage front-of-house consisted of two stacks of six W8LM Mini line arrays on four WLX subs, driven by Martin Audio amplification. Onstage monitoring was handled through LE400 and LE12JB floor monitors, with side fills consisting of two Blackline F215’s on four S15’s, and a Blackline F15/S15 combo as drum fill.
FOH was mixed on a Midas Verona with an Allen Heath ML4000 on monitors, while all system control and EQ was run by XTA DP226 and GQ600s.
Bands appearing included the Lightning Seeds, The Automatic and The Fratellis, and while each supplied its own FOH engineer, USS provided a technician to baby-sit at FOH, along with a monitor engineer who covered all the bands.
The dance tent system, which featured DJs from the Ministry of Sound and Judge Jules, was configured using two stacks of four W8LM Minis on two S218 subs, driven by Lab Gruppen amps, with Martin Audio’s dedicated DX1 controller.
Other venues were also rigged with Martin Audio systems, including a Blackline H3/S218 combination, a Wavefront W3/WS2A stack and a pair of Blackline F15s for the acoustic Jazz/Irish Bar.
The event itself was voted Best Summer Ball of 2006 by Radio One and hailed as the UK’s Poshest Gig in the NME.
“Although sound, price and ease of rigging are all important in the choice of a system, the levels of service and back up from Martin Audio far exceeds any other supplier we have encountered within this industry,” summarised Salter.
In picture: the Automatic onstage at the Summer Ball.
3rd August 2006
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