France-The largest annual festival in France takes place mid-July of every year,in Carhaix,Brittany.This year's festival featured some very big names in music such as Sting,Bob Dylan,Portishead,The Cure and Garbage who performed on its main Glenmore stage.Another five stages featured international and French artists from well-known to up and coming acts,including performance artists and theatre.The high profile names attracted 244,000 attendees over four days.
Audiolite provided all sound production for the Adamson filled main stage set-up.For the Glenmore stage,as it is named after a famous Brittany artist,sound design was executed by Patrick'Typat'Passerel,and the sound crew chief was Sylvain Turpin,with Audiolite owner Thierry Tanguy overseeing the management.
Audiolite has been covering the Vieilles Charrues Festival's main stage using Adamson Y18's since 2005.Turpin was a bit concerned going from an 18"down to a 15"system,but his worries were put to rest:"Finally the E15s bring more punch and more definition in the low end,no question about it.E15s exceed all existing systems in the midrange,with more definition,and more clarity.Also the horizontal directivity control in the E15 is a large step ahead.Sound quality at FOH position was amazing,at 75m closing your eyes you only felt as if you were at 30m from the stage."
The Vieilles Charrues stage was very wide,and the main PA measured 48.8m between the L&R array.A second L&R PA filled the area in front of the stage.
"Throw of the main E15 PA was to 120m,then five delay towers with 6 x Y18 on each pushed it to 200m.I walked around in the far field and I have to say that Audiolite did a really good job,the coverage was perfect and sound quality exceptional,even at 200m,"comments Didier Dal Fitto,technical director of DV2,Adamson's France distributor,who was present for E15 support at the festival.
