Whilst everyone is getting very excited about Flex Array, its worth remembering that its much bigger brother Aspect is still out there doing the business night after night. Today I popped along to the set-up of an 5-way Aspect gig in the Corn Exchange in Cambridge UK. The Band are the Pigeon Detectives - a northern hi-energy indie rock 5 piece renowned for the dynamism of the lead singer and his unerring talent for jumping on wedges - the grilles are a shocking state.
For more info on the band look at their website http://www.thepigeondetectives.com/ or search for them on myspace.
The rental company is We Audio and in this picture you see 8x TA-890H per side (4 stacked and 4 flown) with 6x TA-890L and 4 TSW-218s driven from Turbo T-series amps and XTA controller. Andy, the bands FoH engineer, used Aspect a few times last summer on the festival circuit and realised straight way that Aspect was the ideal system to capture the racing energy and dynamism of this Leeds based 5 piece. He is really happy with the results he is getting every night with the system in a range of 1800-4500 capacity venues.
Monitors are much abused TFM-450s (with TQ-425s subs for Drum Fill) plus TQ445DP/TQ-425DP sidefills run via a Midas Heritage H3K
BTW the photo was taken with my phone so apologies for slightly fuzzy analogue feel to it.
AND just to underline the hardworking nature of the Aspect series go to http://www.turbosound.com/newsroom/forum/index.html for details about another one of the UK's key touring venues, the Kentish Town Forum (for you older punters out there you may remember it as the Town & Country Club) and its new Aspect system. For more details on the Forum check out its website or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Forum
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