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Capital Sound selects Martin Audio for season closer in Hyde Park

As is now customary, Hyde Park played host to the final weekend of its long season, with Proms in the Park on the Saturday making way for BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park the following day.

Working the event for the sixth year, Capital Sound were again contracted by promoters, Festival Republic, with production in the hands of Dick Tee. Tee turned to Martin Audio products and put together a main PA hang comprising 16 x MLA and an MLD Downfill per side, and 12 x MLA on each flank as sidefills.

Sub frequencies were reproduced by 26 MLX subwoofers in a broadside cardioid array - 17 forward facing, and nine on top reversed. On alternate sub stacks was a W8LM Mini Line Array element, with a further stack of three W8LM on each side acting as ‘wing fills’.

Up on stage, artists could draw their reference sound from Martin Audio LE1500 wedges, supported by WS218X side fills, while away from the stage 12 x Martin Audio DD6s provided reinforcement at the VIP interview stage outside, with a further 12 x Martin Audio F8s on duty inside.

Further back down the field, there were four delay rings giving a total of 12 delay masts. Two points were set 350 metres from the mix position, comprising eight Martin Audio MLA Compacts, to extend coverage to the main entrance gate but avoiding spill. Four positions were equipped with three MLX in cardioid pattern, while the furthest ring ensured the desired SPL levels could be reached while containing the offsite sound.

A further eight DD6s were supplied for onstage orchestral monitoring, while in the hospitality garden, close to the VIP interview stage, a mast of eight MLA Compact was rigged, stage left.

Many of the acts performing were already Capital Sound accounts, such as the Pet Shop Boys (with Holger Schwark piloting the soundboard), Westlife, with FOH engineer Gary Bradshaw, and Status Quo with Andy May. Barry Manilow’s sound engineer Ken Newman also expressed his delight that Capital had been able to replicate his usual FOH rig across the Atlantic (while in the States his MLA requirements are met by Martin Audio partner OSA).

(Photos: BBC/Jamie Simonds/Sarah Jeynes)

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