College Hill Productions supplied the live sound services for the Auckland “Big Day Out” on January 15, one of the world’s most popular music festivals.
The event featured performances by some of today’s biggest artists, including Lily Allen, The Mars Volta, Jet, Kasabian, The Decemberists and Fear Factory.
Big Day Out included two main stages, one next to the other, enabling one act to perform immediately following the performance on the adjacent stage.
At each stages front-of-house position, College Hill’s FOH system engineers Kevin Bennett and Leon Dalton used a 96-channel Soundcraft Vi console with fiber multicores.
Both systems utilized the onboard Lexicon effects packages built into the Vi6. In addition, the electronic group Groove Armada used a third Vi6 in the dance tent.
“All comments from the band engineers were positive,” said Chris Tate, Director of College Hill Productions. “The day went 100 percent smoothly and the Vi6 consoles worked flawlessly.”
