Veteran PA provider, Dowlen Sound Inc. of Arvada, Colorado chose the GTO as their new large format line array as did the English sound company Britannia Row Productions. Although the formal introduction was not planned until early 2011, the powerful speaker system was used for the first time at Colorado's largest music festival, to kick off the Outline GTO early adopter's pilot programme.
"Outline GTO continues to exceed our expectations," said Eric Satre, Dowlen's sales executive and director of the company's operations at the Mile High festival. "The GTO has really established Outline as one of the top players in the large format line array market."
"We have a lot experience working in the high altitude, low humidity, and high temperature conditions of the Rocky Mountains," added Dowlen Sound president Bret Dowlen. "The GTO has output the likes of which we have never experienced before especially under these harsh conditions. We have since used the GTO multiple times at Red Rocks, large arenas and theatres with excellent results. We are very excited about the future of Outline, and we are glad to be among the early adopters and key partners in bringing the GTO to the world."
The Outline GTO made its heralded entry into the European PA community a few weeks as Britannia Row Productions elected to deploy their GTO for the final leg of the Peter Gabriel Tour, which concluded 3 October.
"This tour was a wonderful proving ground for the GTO" said Bryan Grant MD and founding partner of Britannia Row Productions. "The system faithfully reproduced the complex orchestral arrangements of Peter Gabriel's work in a variety of venues of different sizes and configurations. Having had several years of experience already with Outline product, notably the Butterfly line array, we were confident that the Outline team would deliver a great new product, which they indeed did. We were very impressed with GTO's performance straight out of the box."
(Jim Evans)
