V4 Karst Finds a New Home at Vortex Events: June 2015

Matt Gourd and Iain Rendle, with Vortex Events, have a combined knowledge of over 20 years in the events industry and are passionate about offering great service and support. Vortex Events provides both dry rental of all their equipment as well as full production support for everything from musical productions, TV shows, and dance events to touring productions, festivals, and corporate events.

Vortex Events vision is to ensure total customer satisfaction, the company says. Working on the principles of reliability, honesty, integrity and a desire to help clients keep within budget and exceed their event objectives. They employ the latest technology and use highly skilled experienced AV engineers to ensure they can meet this goal.

Having recently purchased a Hippotizer V4 Karst media server, Vortex Events will be putting it to the test immediately on the John Peel stage at one of the top summer music festivals in the UK, The Glastonbury Festival, this coming week.

Gourd says: "We looked at many different media servers and having used a wide range onsite for events, it was easy to see that the V4 range was one step ahead in many ways. These include the value for money and great support they offer. The Karst will help us realize some complicated mapping projects and visualize them at the design stage. This means we can easily translate our ideas to our clients, which means they can visualize what we can offer at the quote stage of the project.

"The Karst will be used for projection mapping on buildings/bespoke surfaces, pixel mapping on our custom LED screen solutions, and for touring events where the LD needs to take control."

Simon Harris, user experience manager at Green Hippo, says: "We are very excited that Vortex have chosen Hippotizer V4 as their media server weapon of choice. Matt and Iain's creative ideas and technical skills will see the system shine on a wide range of projects and it's our pleasure to have them on board."