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HK WEDGES 'BRILLIANT' ON GLASTO JOHN PEEL STAGE
Previously known as the self-explanatory 'New Band Stage'
at the Glastonbury Festival, until it was renamed in 2005
in memory of John Peel, this stage is dedicated to the memory
of the late great radio DJ, forever the unchallenged champion
of new bands and new music.
2008 saw the set-up of this stage change drastically, with
the tent itself doubling in size and a video screen added
outside to cater for the many festival-goers attracted to
the scheduled acts. 2008 also saw a change in the actual performance
remit for the acts - alongside the unfamiliar and 'bubbling
under' bands, were some seriously heavy hitters from the current
indie music scene, including Biffy Clyro, The Kills and Spiritualized.
Mike Taylor from Emarty, monitor engineer for the JP stage,
declared himself well pleased with the performance of the
monitor system used over the Glasto weekend - after all, with
a mere 20 minutes allocated as changeover time onstage between
bands throughout each day's schedule, there certainly wasn't
any spare time available for adjustments or repairs to the
PA during the daily schedules.
The John Peel stage monitor system consisted of 14 x HK Audio
ConTour CT115 1 x 15"/1.4" 600w full range/bi-amp
cabinets, running off Lab Gruppen FP10000Q and DSM2060 amplifier
racks, supplied by South West Audio. For this particular gig,
the HK ConTour CT115's were set to bi-amp mode, and were the
main monitors on all performers - except the drummer, who
had an impressive personal monitor rig available to them consisting
of 4 x HK ConTour CTA118 1 x 18" subs + 4 x HK ConTour
CT112 400w 1 x 12"'s. In addition, 2 x CT118's + 2 x
CTA208's were deployed either side of the stage as side fill.
"The HK wedges rocked!" was Taylor's ultimate assessment
of the HK Audio monitor system, as the great Glasto stage
breakdown began. "They sounded brilliant! I had no problems
with them at all and every band's engineer was over the moon
with them. The side fills were also brilliant in use - the
bottom end was perfect, it was a really good stage sound,
not once did I have to re-EQ and there were hardly any 'squeaks'
- and incredibly, with a total of 43 (count 'em!) bands appearing
on that stage over the Glastonbury weekend, that was quite
some feat."
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