We have had a long association with Bath International Music Festival which throws up numerous challenges. The many venues that we work in at Bath include highly reverberant 18th century rooms, a large 800 seat venue with an extremely dry acoustic, and a 150 seat venue with a dry acoustic.

The reverberant venues are dealt with using speakers with very controlled dispersion, such as the d&b C6, delays, fills and very careful equalisation.

The large, dry venue is easy to work with Jazz, Folk, Electronica etc, but with opera or other classical music we apply very light overall reinforcement and reverb. We always strive to maintain the illusion that there is no amplification.

We do a lot of work in churches with June Tabor and at Petworth Festival: here we need to cover nave, side aisles, an isolated seating block, and choir stalls behind the musicians, where again we use delays, fills, careful setting of relative speaker levels and equalisation to deliver first class sound to all members of the audience. We pride ourselves on the very natural sound we achieve in often very difficult circumstances.