Avolites
Titan consoles reigned supreme at Bloodstock Festival, with all stages running
Titan for the rock and metal festival that drew more than 15,000 metal heads to
Derbyshire this month.
Bloodstock\’s
main \’Ronnie James Dio\’ stage featured metal heavyweights such as headliners
Trivium, Within Temptation and Rob Zombie. LD Ben Coxon controlled using two
HSL-supplied flagship Avolites Sapphire Touch consoles, networked together with
a TitanNet Processor (TNP). HSL also supplied a dimming solution in the form of
two 48-way Avolites ART2000 dimmers for the stage, as well as further Avolites
consoles and dimmers across the festival site.
\”Due
to the busking nature of the festival, Avolites was the perfect choice,\”
says Andy Whittaker of HSL. \”The range of Titan consoles, going from the
Quartz all the way up to the Sapphire Touch, suited each stage of the festival
perfectly.
\”The
Sapphires on the main stage were a particular success, and the networking capability
with the TNP and Multiuser were fantastic. The TNP shared the processing load
well and integrating consoles into the Avolites system was simple and
hassle-free.\”
Visiting
LDs, including regular Avolites users including Sepultura\’s Mike Scherer, Opeth\’s
Mick Thornton, and Jeremy Skoorka with Black Label Society also jumped on the
Sapphire Touch console to light their acts, with the console\’s hands-on
approach reported by Whittaker as \”particularly pleasing\”.
Across
on the second stage, an Avolites Tiger Touch II was used to control for a
heavy-hitting line up of international metal, while on the third stage HSL
supplied a Quartz to provide the lighting for some of the best up-and-coming
bands on the scene. Powercubes provided dimming for the generics on both
stages.
