French festival first for Funktion-One’s Vero
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For this year’s event, organisers broke new ground by employing Funktion-One sound systems on all four of its stages - in the process reducing power draw for the main stage to a 10th of that required last year.
To meet the needs of such a large-scale event, Funktion-One specialists from across France and beyond came together to work on the festival. Heading up the project was Concept Group, based in the south of France, who in turn brought together Solution One from Montpellier, Remote from Paris and Think! AV from the Netherlands - each providing the equipment and expertise required to ensure this year’s sound systems would surpass all those that had come before.
Further augmenting this super-group of suppliers was a crack team from Funktion-One HQ, including company co-founders and R&D masterminds Tony Andrews and John Newsham.
Leading the charge on the Main Stage, was a Funktion-One Vero large format vertical array.
The customisable nature of the Vero system delivered a number of advantages that proved particularly useful on Electrobeach’s Main Stage.
Newsham explains: “The festival site is surrounded by residential buildings, which we want to keep the sound away from much as we can. Being a completely horn-loaded system means Vero has a very accurate coverage pattern - we can control our output and keep it focused on the audience, rather than it spreading to other parts of the environment.”
As well as behaving completely naturally (with no onboard system EQ), the Main Stage sound was unaffected by the coastal wind. “We’re noticing that, despite the site being really windy, we’re not getting the normal phasing problems because it’s not summing in the near field,” explains Andrews.
The Main stage hangs comprised 10 x V60 (mid-high loudspeaker providing 60° horizontal), 12 x V315 (mid-bass horn loaded loudspeaker) and 8 x V90 (mid-high loudspeaker providing 90° horizontal coverage). 32 x V221 subs and 8 x V132 super subs were stacked in front of the stage, with four Evo 7/TH used as out-fills and two Evo 7 for centre-fills. 22 Lab.gruppen PLM amplifiers powered the system.
For the remaining three stages, Funktion-One Evo systems were deployed. On the Techno Stage, the system comprised six Evo7T, six Evo7TH, six Evo7TL215, two Evo7TH in-fills, 10 x F121, four F132 and PSM318 monitors.
On the Beach Stage four Evo6E, four Evo6EL, eight F124 (configured in a compact delta array) and PSM12 monitors with Minibass 212 were used, while over on the Hardstyle Stage four Evo7T, two Evo7TH, two F315, 12 x F121 and six BR221 were on duty.
(Jim Evans)
