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Martin Audio MLA on duty at Shambala

Stage Audio Services (SAS)’ 15-year-long relationship with the Shambala Festival in Market Harborough continued over this year’s August Bank Holiday weekend - but with something of a difference.

While they again deployed the full-sized Martin Audio MLA that they had acquired in time for last year’s event, the festival coincided with the birth of system engineer/crew chief Nat Hopking’s daughter Mila. This necessitated giving colleague Phil Warwick a crash course in MLA technology before he raced back to welcome his new-born. “I literally set up the system, put the presets into the Preset Loader and having done a training session, handed over to Phil at FOH. He picked it up really quickly and I was able to leave the site by 2 p.m.”

During the daytime there may only be several hundred people present for the early family entertainment but when the headliners appear the arena is full. “So we set the presets in 10-metre increments of 60 m, 50 m and 40 m throws, although the full size MLA will throw over 200 m,” adds Hopking. “The size of the crowd at any given time dictated the preset he used.”

As with last year SAS fielded eight elements of MLA per side, this system having taken over from the smaller MLA Compact the previous year. Ten MLX subs in five stacks of two, firing forward, were spaced across the front, with 1.2 m space between each. On stacks 1, 3 and 5, pairs of MLA Compact were placed to provide lip fills.

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