DGTL Festival
took place at Amsterdam’s NDSM Docklands on 15-16 April and featured a huge
stock of Funktion-One loudspeakers. The site, which is a short ferry journey
from Amsterdam Centraal train station, welcomed around 15,000 partygoers for
two days of electronic music.
The event prides itself on balanced programming. While other
festivals hinge on large-draw headliners, DGTL combines those big names with
local and international emerging talents. This year’s programme saw standout
performances from the likes of Maceo Plex, Jamie Jones, Tom Trago (live),
Jennifer Cardini, DJ Koze, and Joy Orbison back-to-back with George Fitzgerald.
Such a strong focus on the musical output meant that there was
also a big emphasis on the quality of the sound production. The organisers
drafted in Think! AV to deliver Funktion-One loudspeaker set-ups for five of
DGTL’s six areas.
DGTL’s Chris van Meer said: “At DGTL Festival we want to
provide our audience with the best experience a festival can offer. By working
with Think AV and Funktion-One, we know that we have a trustworthy supplier and
top class sound systems.”
Area
1 (Modular) was home to a Vero system, featuring left and right hangs of two Vero V60
60-degree mid-high enclosures, three Vero V90 90-degree mid-high enclosures and
three Vero V315 mid-bass enclosures.
These
flown linear arrays were teamed with 12 ground-stacked Vero V221 double 21in
bass speakers. Two more Vero V90s and four Evo 7SH skeletal speakers were
deployed as delays and infill. Onstage, the DJs were treated to a Funktion-One
PSM318 monitor set-up.
Think! AV’s Remco van der Werff commented: “Following our
purchase of the Vero system in April, we were pleased to give it its first
outing at such a great event. Promoters and audiences love how impactful it
sounds and it’s very easy to handle from a production point of view. We’re
looking forward to many more people experiencing the Vero sound at a number of
events we’re doing this summer.”
The
main PA in Area 3 (Filter) featured 12 stacked Funktion-One Resolution 5
Touring loudspeakers, and 14 Funktion-One F218 bass enclosures, together with a
Resolution 2 SH delay system. The monitor package here comprised Funktion-One
PSM12s and BR118 bass reflex speakers.
A 12-piece Resolution 5 Touring set-up was also deployed in Area
4 (Frequency), with four Resolution 4 Touring for delays. Here, eight Vero
V221s supplied the low-end response. Four Funktion-One Resolution 2 speakers
made sure the VIP area was well covered. Again, One PSM12s and BR118s were used
for monitoring.
For Area 5 (AMP by Mosaic), Think! AV opted for a cutting-edge
Evo set-up. It featured six Evo 7T full-range loudspeakers, six Evo 7TH
mid-high speakers and six Evo 7TL-215 mid-bass speakers. Both the Evo 7TH and
the Evo 7TL-215 are brand new additions to the company’s rental stock,
following their launch at Prolight + Sound 2017 last month. A total of 12 Vero
V221 double 21in bass enclosures made sure there was plenty of power in the low
frequencies. Four Evo 6EH loudspeakers and two F215 bass enclosures were
deployed for infill and a PSM318 DJ monitor set-up was used. Area 5’s VIP area
was covered by four Resolution 2s and four F1201 speakers.
Area 6 (Gain by Resident Advisor) featured two Funktion-One
Dance Stacks together with Resolution 2s and F218s for four-point fill.
van der Werff said: “At Think! AV we believe that the quality of
our rental stock and the service we provide to each customer is very important.
Being adaptable is very important for answering the needs of all our customers.
Adding Evo 7THs and Evo TL-215s means we can be very flexible with our Evo
configurations, so more customers can have the latest Funktion-One technology
in configurations that are exactly right for their venue or site.”
Photos
by Tom Doms.
