ADLIB Chills Out Again

	Photo: Mark A Bennett

ADLIB, the Liverpool, UK-based gear supplier is not exactly "chilling out" this summer, which is proving one of its busiest in recent years, reflecting a generally buoyant rental market.

The Big Chill, the UK's original "boutique" festival, is held in the picturesque grounds of Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Hertfordshire. It was the latest in a series of festivals that ADLIB is supplying.

For this year's Big Chill festival, ADLIB designed sound systems for two Stages -- Revellers' and The People's Ear.

Otto Kroymann led the ADLIB team of seven -- Mike Flaherty, George Puttock, and Tommy Bradshaw, who looked after the Revellers', while Simon Lawson, Alan Harrison and Chris Smethurst took care of things on The People's Ear.

The sound system on the Revellers' stage was JBL VerTec for an eclectic line up ranging from Club Zirconia to Kormac's Big Band and NZ Shapeshifter to Annie Nightingale.

The flown arrays each contained 10 VT4889 speakers a-side, run in combination with six VT 4880A subs a-side on the ground, Coda LA8 infills.

The main system was driven by Camco Vortex 6 amplifiers, with Lab.gruppen PLM20000s for the subs and fills.

They used the opportunity to further test a fiber optic Dante network, which took the signal from the front of house via Lake LM44s at both ends to the onstage Dolby Lake LM26 processors. From there, it was digitally distributed to the amps, which worked like a dream.

Onstage, ADLIB supplied a Yamaha PM5D console, together with d&b M2 wedges driven by their own D12 amps for monitors. Side fills were L-Acoustics ARCS & SB28 subs.

Alan Harrison oversaw the People's Ear Stage for ADLIB, which featured a line up of creative reggae, dub artists, and DJs. The system design was a Nexo Alpha set up -- with M3 tops, B1 bass, and S2 subs - and Digidesign SC48 digital consoles at both front of house monitors.

ADLIB's low-profile MP3 wedges were used for monitors, supplied together with a 15 inch drum fill, a Sennheiser G2 wireless radio mic system, a proliferation of wired mics and a full DJ set up.

Concludes ADLIB director Dave Jones, "We pride ourselves on the relationships with our festival partners, and working together with Festival Republic's Nick Davies and Andy Head we co-ordinate all the efforts to ensure that we provide the best service possible, while retaining our sense of humor and delivering to their specifications each.