Turbosound at Music on the Hill, Kent, UK

Over 9,000 people attended the first ever Music On The Hill festival on the weekend of June 24-26 at Kings Hill in Kent, UK. Despite rain, over 3,000 people watched ,b>Katherine Jenkins perform with ,b>Wynne Evans on Friday, followed by the biggest crowd on Saturday for McFly and the Sugababes. Family Sunday was a great success, with performances from Stacey Solomon, Björn Again, ABC, Ben Mills and others entertaining the crowds.

Another outing in what has turned into a busy summer season for UK rental company Subfrantic, Music on the Hill presented some challenges in terms of less-than-perfect weather and some tight audio restrictions, but the company's Flex Array coped with these conditions.

Subfrantic's Steve Davies designed the PA with two hangs of 12 Flex Array TFA-600H cabinets and six Aspect TA-890L double 15" low-frequency cabinets working in a five-way setup, with double 18" TSW-218 subs taking care of sub-bass frequencies.

Sixteen TFM-450s made up the floor monitor system, with two stacks of Floodlight in use as sidefills, four TQ-445 three-ways as lip and infills, and a double 15" TQ-425 as drum sub.

The system was modeled with EASE software back at base. Furthermore, the entire system was networked over BVNet and remotely controlled using TurboDrive. Turbosound T-series amps provided all the amplification.

Davies reports that the clients were extremely happy with the result, having chosen Subfrantic due to a recommendation. "The audio restrictions were unusually tight, but we were successful in keeping within the limits at all times," he says. "The system all rigged very easily, thanks to Turbosound's over-engineered flying systems which made the process very straightforward. Overall Flex Array provides us with a great balance of sound quality, compact size, coverage and useable volume. As the rig already fitted well alongside our Aspect system, having the option to run four or five way with our 890Ls has made it even more flexible and more useable in a larger number of situations."