Funktion One’s John Newsham explains the set-up: "We used a main left and right system which was 15 self-powered F218 bass per side and five wide by three deep Resolution 5s per side, with downfills. The system used the new self-powered Res 5s, with each powered box running an unpowered slave." The side hangs for the bleacher areas alongside the stage were covered by four Res 4s and two Res 18s per side, conventionally powered. Front fills and out fills consisted of Resolution 2s. Flown delays were six Res 5s per side and ground delays six F218 powered bins in the middle behind the mix risers and two Res 2 skeletal high packs.
Control for the entire system was handled by XTA’s proprietary AudioCore program, with the crossovers sited locally to the various stacks. "We had one small rack per side for the front of house system which had DP226s and a DP224," continues Newsham. "We ran stereo signal to everywhere which meant that we didn’t need a massive return system and we split the system up into zones with the XTAs which we then remotely controlled from front-of-house. We were running the long throw section of the Res 5s on three outputs of a DP226, and the other half was doing the bottom row of Res 5s with a DP224 handling the bass and the downfills. The spare output was used when we had to put bass bins round the sides in certain venues for seats round the back and another two DP224s were used for the side hang Res 4s. Another rack had a DP224 and two amps for the Res 2 frontfills. In the past I’ve always been against running crossovers local to the speakers because I like to be able to see what the speakers are doing. But with AudioCore you can see what everything is doing on your PC laptop screen at the desk and adjust the whole system quickly and easily."
(Ruth Rossington)
