Monday, 29 October 2001
For the ninth consecutive year, the organizers of the Pepsi Festival (Sziget Kulturalis Szervezoiroda) in Budapest, asked Production 2000 Ltd to provide sound and lighting for the main stage - and the other areas. The company fielded a high specification of equipment from their hire fleet, including a major Turbosound Flashlight and Floodlight rig. 36 Flashlight TFS 780H mid/high packs were flown in 6 x 3 configurations on either side of the stage, with 48 Floodlight TFL-780L bass enclosures configured four wide and six high on each side. 12 Turbosound Floodlight TFL-760H mid/highs were used for near-fill and infill and a further eight TFL-118 low-frequency Floodlights provided centre coverage.
The sections of the sound system were driven from three amp racks housing configurations of MC2 MC750 and MC2 1250 amplifiers. In addition, Production 2000 supplied all Turbosound stage monitoring in the form of 12 TFM-330 floor wedges and eight TFM-302s - again driven from MC2 amplification and controlled through three Turbosound LMS D6s. Pepsi Sziget is part of a giant, seven-day multi-cultural expo, offering more than 1,000 programmes in 50 venues.
Since its beginning in 1993, Pepsi Sziget has expanded its audience from 43,000 to over 365,000 this year, when such international acts as Guano Apes, Faithless, Placebo, Run DMC, New Model Army, Leningrad Cowboys, Morcheeba and Eagle-Eye Cherry were included in the line-up.