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Capital chooses Martin MLA for Kew The Music festival

The surroundings of the Royal Botanic Gardens in south-west London (better known as Kew Gardens) provided the location for the facility’s annual six-day music festival, titled Kew The Music. 

For the past five years rental company Capital Sound and its loudspeaker partner Martin Audio have enjoyed a growing presence on the site. Working with promoter Stuart Galbraith from Kilimanjaro Live and production manager/LarMac Live director Ian Greenway, Capital Sound again fielded Martin Audio’s MLA for audiences of 8,000.

Capital flew 10 MLA Compact elements each side of the stage, with a ground stack of four MLA Compact infilling at stage right and stage left to serve the picnickers out on those flanks. Four Martin Audio DD12s across the stage provided nearfield coverage for those who wanted to get up close and personal with the broadside cardioid array, which comprised 14 x WS218X subwoofers.

Several delay points were set, the first mast off to house left comprising 10 x MLA Compact. Further down the park at 65 m from the mix position a second delay comprised of an MLA Mini stack/MSX sub combination, and 60 m beyond that was a further ground-stack of MLA Mini stack/MSX sub.

Once again, sound optimisation via Martin Audio’s Display software platform was in the hands of Chris Pyne, who doubled his duties between system tech and FOH tech. In addition to Pyne at FOH, the team he referred to included Tim Patterson (crew chief) and Nick Cook (monitor engineer).

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