The event was staged over three locations: Pwellheli inner marina and Abersoch main beach were used for the wakeboard competition, while Penrhos was the music site, where headline act Kosheen was supported by the Ordinary Boys, Snatch and others. It took two and a half days to set all power, lighting and sound equipment across the site.
PA for the main area was Kling & Freitag's Access system: four T9 and T5 cabintes, with 12 B5 and four B10s as subwoofers, powered by Lab Gruppen amplification. At front-of-house were a Yamaha PM4000 and an Allen & Heath ML5000. For each desk was an outboard rack carrying a Yamaha SPX 900 and SPX 2000, a dbx 162SL comp/limiter, a TC Electronics D2 delay and a Lexicon PCM 91. All gates and compressors were from Drawmer. For the Friday DJ night with Adam Freeland, Stanton Warriors and others, FOH engineer Matt Jones used the K&F Access system without any EQ. He was a little concerned about the Kling & Freitag speakers, having never experienced the system before, but as soon as the first sound-check was over he relaxed, impressed with the sytem.
Lighting designer Glen Johnson used a Wholehog II with an extension wing to control a rig consisting of mostly Martin Professional fixtures, with eight Atomic 3000 strobes, eight MAC 2000 profiles, four MAC 2000 Washes, 12 MAC 500s, eight MAC 600s and a demo from Martin of five of the new MAC 550 profiles, plus some conventionals.
The second tent was set up with the K&F Line 212-6 system with B10 for subwoofers - a cluster of three tops and three subs per side, a favourite set-up for VME's Dion Davie. Again, amplification was from Lab Gruppen, and an Allen & Heath ML5000 desk was mixing out front, with the same effects as in the main area. An Avolites Pearl 2004 was used to control the rig, this time a mix of Martin Professional moving heads (MAC 250s and 300s) and High End Systems Technobeams.
Helen Griffiths, Wakestock organizer, said: "We are very happy with the whole event, everything went really well and we can't wait to do it all again next year."
