Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park offers four days a line-up of top chefs, alongside artists of the calibre of Van Morrison, Paloma Faith, Busted and Example, and DJs from Judge Jules to Gok Wan via Vernon Kay. For the 7,000-8,000 visitors to the Thameside location in Marlow, this year’s event was definitely a crowd pleaser.
Martin Audio partner SWG Events has a history with the event, this year bringing its flagship WPL line array to main stage. The company will also be serve further three Pub in the Park events, in Chiswick, St Albans and Reigate.
In Marlow, they set hangs of ten WPL enclosures a side on the main stage, with four smaller Wavefront Precision arrays providing fill across the front and the classic sound of Martin Audio’s older WS218X subs in a broadside array. This was all managed by Martin Audio’s iKon iK42 process controlled amplifiers in two-box resolution. dditional SX218s were used as drum fill, along with Martin Audio LE12Js for artists’ monitoring.
‘It was the first time I’d used these subs in conjunction with WPL, and they sounded extremely good,’ says Head of Audio, Simon Purse.
Although the site itself was reassuringly flat, and situated far from local housing where residents might be inconvenienced, the SWG Events team – under production manager Joe Bailey – worked closely with, F1 Acoustics. ‘We did propagation tests,’ Purse says, aware that WPL would comfortably throw the 60m-to-70m distance from stage to site perimeter. ‘F1 gave us our offsite noise limits which we were comfortably able to stick to, while still achieving good level.’
Nevertheless, system tech Sam Jones programmed a Hard Avoid setting at the rear of the audience area as a further precaution while SWG Events set the PA as high as they were able, in order to achieve a good down angle, according to Purse. In addition SWG Events’ crew also featured patch engineers James Marsh and Ieuan Fishburn and monitor tech, Fraser Wilks.
‘All in all we took a very common-sense design approach, to this event, which really paid off,’ Purse says.
