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Nub Sound deploys Martin Audio WPC for “Tunes in the Dunes” festival on Perranporth Beach

“Tunes in the Dunes” is an annual three-day festival on Perranporth Beach in Cornwall. The festival has been running on the golden sands for eleven years, having sprung up from the live music events at the beachside “Watering Hole”, the UK’s only bar on a beach.

Based nearby in Plymouth, Martin Audio partner Nub Sound this year provided the technical infrastructure for “Tunes in the Dunes”, deploying their Wavefront Precision Compact (WPC), eight elements a side, which ensured headliners McFly (Friday), Craig David (Saturday) and Ocean Colour Scene (Sunday) could be heard to the max by crowds assembling on the beach as their music drifted out towards the Atlantic Ocean.

On duty was Nub Sound Director of Operations and sound engineer Josh Small. He explained that in addition to the eight WPC per side, a cardioid sub array of eight SXH218 in a castellated format ensured rear rejection and stage spillage. Three WPS enclosures provided nearfill coverage, with the main hangs driven in 2-box resolution from Martin Audio iKon multi-channel process-control amplifiers, and the front fills individually amplified.

“We were in a very long arena, not particularly wide and needing to get consistent audience coverage from in front of the pit to right out to 55-60 metres behind the FOH position”, says Small. “That’s something we could achieve really well with the Wavefront series.” He adds that his sound team was able to meet the environmental requirements by using Martin Audio’s proprietary Display software.

“We were aware that we were in in a residential area”, he continues. “Although Perranporth is only a small town, there are a number of hotels and residences on the cliff-top which we were pointing towards, and our neighbours naturally have concerns about being disturbed by events happening on this site. Therefore, we had to be considerate about our offsite noise and we had to be thoughtful about how we were going to impact the local populous.”

His solution was to use the strict Hard Avoid setting in Display at the back of the arena. “We specifically aimed the PA acoustically to avoid sending anything offsite”, says Small who also had to deal with the logistics of getting the tech down to the beach from the cliff top: “It was a case of getting everything to the nearest hard standing car park, forking it off a lorry onto tractor trailers, bringing it to stage and then forking it off again”, he concludes.

(Photos: Martin Audio/Nub Sound)

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