Marked its first decade with a carefully crafted programme of underground electronic music, Gottwood festival’s organisers are committed to giving its community the best possible sound – calling in Audio Feed (with a little help from its friends) to deliver Funktion-One systems on all ten stages.
Each stage was curated by the people behind some of the UK’s best parties and music labels, making for a varied line-up of DJ and live performances. The event was also the first outing for Function-One’s Vero VX.
With its global launch at ProLight & Sound in April, Vero VX was deployed at The Lawn – the festival’s 3,000-capacity main stage. The system featured four groundstacked Vero VX90 cabinets per side and eight V124 bass enclosures. Power came from MC2 Delta 90, Delta 100 and Delta 80 DSP Dante amplifiers. Funktion-One founder Tony Andrews was onsite to assist with the set-up and to oversee Vero VX’s maiden voyage.
Vero VX was developed to satisfy the growing demand for Vero sound in a more compact footprint. It is a three-way vertical array enclosure with four new Funktion-One designed Neodymium drivers in a horizontally symmetric configuration: two reflex loaded, high efficiency 12-inch mid-bass drivers; one Axhead loaded wide bandwidth 8-inch cone midrange driver; and a single 1-inch compression driver on a proprietary isophase diffraction waveguide. It measures 1120mm wide and 340mm high, its usable bandwidth is 50Hz to 20kHz and horizontal dispersion is 90°.
Funktion-One’s driver and waveguide technology enable a single transducer to cover more than four octaves of the audio spectrum, from 300Hz–5kHz. This approach ensures vocals and musical harmonics are coherent in both time and space, providing benefits in clarity, intelligibility and stereo imaging. It’s an extraordinarily energy efficient system – up to eight cabinets can be powered by a single amplifier.
Commenting on Vero VX’s performance at Gottwood, Andrews says: ‘Given that this was the first outing and as we only had four units per side, typical reasoning could lead you to think that it may not be sufficient for the size of venue. However, the output and clarity of this relatively small system was outstanding. It performed beyond all expectations, with headroom to spare.’
‘The VX produced an incredibly full, vibrant alive sound,’ adds Audio Feed’s Oz Jefferies. ‘The vocal clarity was effortless and its performance on live bands was incredible. The Deltas sound awesome.’
The stages provided a mix of styles and ranged in size from The Barn at around 200-capacity to The Curve at 1,150. All had Funktion-One systems from Audio Feed, apart from Trigon, which was supplied by Full Fat Audio.
‘Supplying this year’s Gottwood Festival with ten stages of Funktion-One was a great pleasure for all the team at Audio Feed,’ says Audio Feed’s Festival Project Manager, Conor Dever. ‘Set in an absolutely stunning part of the UK, it was a wonderful experience delivering high quality audio systems in such a beautiful setting.
‘The Lawn stage featured the first outing of the new Vero VX system – which sounded absolutely immense. Elsewhere in the festival we focused on implementing quadraphonic systems to curb noise restrictions and deliver a sonic experience for the festival goers. We’d like to thank the festival organisers and everyone else on site who made such an amazing show possible.’
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