Dowlen Sound Inc. of Arvada, Colorado used their new GTO system for the first time at Colorado's Mile High Music Festival in August 2010, as part of Outline's 'Early Adopter' product introduction programme. "Outline GTO continues to exceed our expectations, and has really established Outline as one of the top players in the large format line array market," said Eric Satre, Dowlen's sales executive and director of the company's operations at the Mile High Festival.
Also in the United States, eastern production company Special Event Services (SES) of Winston-Salem, NC, have been busy with their GTO rig. "We have been working behind the scenes for several years with Outline in the development of this speaker system," says Jason Farah, SES vice president. "It's a good feeling to see it come from concept to completion and know that we helped influence the creation of the product and the culture of the company."
In Europe the GTO achieved a high-profile debut as London-based Britannia Row Productions, deployed a large GTO system on the final leg of the 2010 Peter Gabriel 'New Blood' tour.
"This tour was a wonderful proving ground for the GTO," said Bryan Grant, MD and founding partner of Britannia Row Productions. "The system faithfully reproduced the complex orchestral arrangements of Peter Gabriel's work in a variety of venues of different sizes and configurations. Having had several years of experience already with Outline product, notably the Butterfly line array, we were confident that the Outline team would deliver a great new product, which they indeed did. We were very impressed with GTO's performance straight out of the box."
(Jim Evans)
