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Tube UK supports Ramsbottom Festival

Tube UK designed and supplied D&B sound systems for the main and second stages of the 2016 Ramsbottom Festival. The three day event was staged in the Lancashire town of Ramsbottom and featured a mix of music, food and artistic/creative engagements.

Tube - along with Manchester based lighting company DBN - has been involved in the Ramsbottom Festival since it started in 2011, when they were asked on-board by production manager Roy Fernley. This year for the first time Tube also supplied a PA to the second “Smaller Spaces” stage.

The main arrays this year were 6 x D&B V8s a side with two V12s flown at the bottom of each array, together with four Y7P infills along the stage lip. The subs were four B2 subs and eight V-Subs ground stacked along the front of the stage, all driven by 10 x D12 amplifiers.

The ‘house’ FOH console was a Yamaha PM5D, with a Midas Pro2 supplied for Friday night headliners, Public Service Broadcasting. The generic monitor package comprised 12 x D&B M4 wedges and two QSubs for drum fill, powered by eight D12 amps, with another PM5D for the console. All the effects used were on-board the console and D&B’s Rope software was utilized for processing and managing the amplifiers.

There were no substantial environmental noise issues, but because of the close proximity of the Main and Second stages, a lot of detail went into directing the Main Stage PA ‘low and concentrated’ into its specific audience area. The smaller stage was in a tented venue, with the main audio system comprising four D&B Y8s a side ground stacked with one Y-Sub and two V-Subs, plus more Y7Ps for infills powered by five D12 amps. The FOH console was a Yamaha CL5. A Yamaha QL5 console ran eight M4 wedge monitors and a Q-Sub for the drums, driven by four D12 amps, with a full stage mics-and-stands package supplied to both stages.

The tube crew started on the Thursday afternoon with a pre-rig ahead of the event opening on Friday. Project manager John Redfern carried out all of the pre-production and prep from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whilst running another major Tube project at the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics. In his absence, Melvyn Coote stepped into the FOH seat on site at Ramsbottom.

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