One of Europe’s largest cultural festivals, the Gentse Feesten is an annual highlight for residents and visitors to the city of Ghent, Belgium. It was also a highlight for Splendit, the largest Turbosound rental company in Benelux, who provided a system of more than 70 loudspeakers for two stages

Noise control is a critical factor for the city’s ten-day festival, which takes place in and around Ghent’s residential areas: ‘The Turbosound Flex Array was chosen for its 75° dispersion,’ Splendit’s Marijn Broeckaert explains. ‘It is able to deliver clear, directed sound without impacting areas outside of the immediate festival area.’

The largest of the festival’s stages, the Bij St-Jacobs, used a Midas XL4 mixing console at FOH, with two hangs of nine TFA600H and two TFA600HW loudspeaker elements per side, with 12 TSW218 subs ground-stacked at the front of the stage in a cardioid array. Two hangs of three TFA600HW boxes were used for delays, with 16 TMW115s and a TFA600L drum sub for monitoring.

The dispersion, sound quality, power and small footprint were the reasons Sint-Jacobs stage sound manager Dirk Brysbaert chose the Flex Array: ‘In addition to the controlled dispersion of the flown arrays, both stages employed cardioid bass array set-ups,’ Broeckaert says. ‘This worked so good that we had nothing but compliments about the sound quality.’

For the Baudelopark stage, two hangs of three TFA600H boxes and two TFA600HWs were set each side, with nine TFA600L subs in a central cardioid array at the front of the stage. Again, monitoring was covered by eight TMW115 and two iQ12 for fill. A Midas Pro2 console was used at FOH.