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Audio Plus supplies XTA amplification for multiple Funktion-One systems at Mint Festival
With its origins in the Mint Club in Leeds, UK, Mint Festival is Yorkshire’s biggest dance music event. The festival, which evolved from a collection of local gatherings, takes place near the city on a purpose-built arena at the 130-acre Newsam Farm, attracting thousands of Leeds music lovers to its multiple stages.
This year’s edition featured Josh Baker’s You&Me, Morgan Seatree’s Unfussy, plus Patrick Topping, Kettama, East End Dubs, and more. East Anglia-based Audio Plus provided sound across the site. The company has taken care of Mint since its inception. This was the ninth edition and saw Audio Plus covering five stages, including DJ monitoring, and a backstage VIP system. Each system was comprised of Funktion-One loudspeakers and XTA amplification, a combination which Audio Plus has relied on for many years.
“We used a Funktion-One large format Vero system, two Vero VX systems in extra wide dispersion and four point arrangements, and our new Funktion-One Evolution 2 and Evolution X setups”, explains Tino Reschke of Audio Plus. “All the systems were powered and controlled by XTA’s latest DSP amplifier technology. We’ve used XTA and MC² amplifiers since the 1990s and recently transitioned to exclusive use of the XTA DPA100 for all our work.”
Audio Plus deployed twenty-five XTA DPA100 Dante equipped amplifiers for all types of Funktion-One loudspeakers at Mint. As a large multi-stage event sited close to the urban population, the festival requires precise control of noise emissions. “Using large bass stacks with good inherent directivity helps to keep the bass focused onto the audience area”, says Reschke. “Further, on one stage we implemented rear-facing F124 subs with cardioid subwoofer array settings, which we could then finetune from outside the festival grounds using a WiFi remote control of the Globcon drive system.”
“We always run our sound systems with analogue backup, which the XTA DPA amplifiers allow us to use in combination with Dante digital audio networking - so if there was an issue in the digital audio network, we would have a safe fallback mechanism”, he adds. “The front panel control of the amplifiers is especially convenient on smaller stages such as Resident and VIP at Mint Festival, giving us the ability to flexibly control a stand-alone system, without the need for networking and connecting a laptop or tablet.”
During Mint Festival, another Audio Plus team was simultaneously delivering the Funktion-One/XTA combination for two stages at Mixology’s Under event in Peterborough, with Glastonbury’s Glade area the next high profile setting in the diary.
(Photos: Audio Plus/Funktion-One/Mint Festival/XTA)
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