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Martin Audio WPC used for Glorious Day festival

Performing to a capacity crowd at the seafront Hove Lawns location in Brighton, UK, an artist line-up including Groove Armada, Jocelyn Brown, and DJ Todd Terry headlined the Glorious Day festival. Delivering sound reinforcement alongside noise control in a sensitive residential environment was a Martin Audio WPC system, deployed by dBS Solutions.

The scalable system comprised ten Martin Audio WPC array elements per side as the main hangs. Providing low-end performance was a castellated array of ten Martin Audio SXH118 subwoofers, configured in a cardioid set-up.

“Hove Lawns on the seafront is a very long, thin area with the beach to the audience’s left and rows of flats and shops along the road to the right”, describes Chris Bogg of dBS Solutions. “The nearest residence is in line with one side of the stage, at a distance of only 60 m. We used Hard Avoid features within the software to dramatically reduce noise behind the main array.”

A greater challenge for the team was a residential and commercial area situated on one side just beyond the far reaches of the 80-m-long site, requiring careful placement of the delay systems. “We had two MLAC delay systems along that left-hand side firing almost across the audience and out towards the sea”, says Bogg. “The city-facing delay was angled in more than you ordinarily would, specifically to keep those high frequencies from spilling beyond the boundary of the site.”

Across the event, dBS Solutions utilised Martin Audio’s Display optimisation software to create multiple levels of coverage predictions. By experimenting with different optimisations and collaborating closely with the local noise control team, they delivered the desired balance of on-site impact within the stringent off-site noise limitations.

(Photos: LCVisuals)

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