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Elation AV Has Now Merged With Audioserv - February 2025

Audioserv is excited to announce the merger with Elation AV, bringing even more value to our expanding customer base. This merger enhances our offerings with increased hire stock, additional expert staff, and expanded industry knowledge. As a result, we can now provide a wider range of Audio Visual products for events, conferences, and productions, ensuring top-tier solutions for every need. This collaboration strengthens our position as a leading provider in the event and AV industry, delivering exceptional service and cutting-edge technology to our clients.

Glastonbury Festival 2025: Audio Solution for Wishing Well (Park Area)

2025 was our first year providing audio for Glastonbury Festival at the Wishing Well in the Park area. It is a unique venue, where an intimate live stage is nestled in a tent, which also serves as the Wishing Well's bar, while the large outdoor area is home to the DJ's realm. The audio was split into two different systems. One for the live area and one for the DJ area, but both run through an Allen & Heath D Live console system, allowing us to set up routing for bands from inside to be fed to the outside system with the correct time alignment and the DJ from outside to be fed back to the inside system. 

With only one set of performers on at any time, DJs rocked the outside area while bands were sound checking, meaning there was never a break in the show. Our routing meant that it was easy to pull the bands from the outside system for sound checking and then back up for their set.

We provided a comprehensive microphone package with lots of lovely large and small diaphragm condensers and all of the standard go to mics you would expect. Stage monitoring was covered by eight D&B M4 wedges. Seven available for the stage and one for a listening wedge in the FOH booth as monitors were mixed from the front.

Both sound systems used Funktion-One Vero VX for mid-high but different bass configurations. The inside live system used a single Vero VX per side with F121 subs in a broadside cardioid array plus a pair of time aligned flown passive Turbosound speakers to cover the rear of the tent, all the way out to the back of the bar area.

The DJ stage outside used three Vero VX per side on our Audioserv in-house fabricated steel ground stack systems, with a monoblock of four F124 vertically stacked with the lower subs delayed slightly to minimise sub steering upwards towards the rest of the site.

The outside area had previously struggled to be audible for the whole of the audience area, but with this system, we managed to have people dancing all the way across the street.

Communication with the outside world can be difficult at large festivals with poor mobile data speed, so we took our own satellite network, which also allowed us to split bandwidth to give some to the bar's card machines, all configured by our IT specialist from our office in Leeds.

Cru2 'The Leeds Shutdown' 2025 | Full Event Production at North Brewing's Springwell Site with Funktion-One Sound, Video Walls & Pyro Effects

In August, we managed the complete production of the Cru2 "The Leeds Shutdown" show at North Brewing's Springwell brewery site.

The event hosted some of the biggest names in Bassline and it needed to be a production to match. The event was outside so we designed a truss structure with a custom roof for the DJ booth, suspended on steel cables, that was both functional and see-through, to minimise obscuring the lights and video wall for audience members at the front. The structure was designed to frame the iconic silo at the brewery and provided support for all lighting, video wall and the DJ booth roof.

The site is long and thin and with a sellout crowd, needed audio coverage all the way to the back. To minimise off site noise issues, the main Funktion-One Vero VX PA system was assisted by two sets of Evo 7T delays, each with subs in a cardioid ground stacked configuration. Delay position one's mid/high speakers were flown from a truss goalpost, and between them and the main system, covered most of the audience area, with delay position two giving rear fill coverage.

Visual elements were covered by four flown and one ground stacked IP rated video wall sections and a comprehensive array of IP lighting fixtures.

Four video wall sections, each one metre wide by four metres high with a section of panels 1m x 2.5m in front of the DJ booth. Our video engineer was able to mix different video content on all five sections throughout the show.

Lighting consisted of mostly BeamZ Pro fixtures, including Nuke3 moving LED panels alongside BeamZ Pro LCB400 1m LED batons and SB220 blinders, along with Chauvet Colorado Solo 1 Zoom's, ADJ Jolt FX panels and ADJ Q6 Mirage uplighters all used to light the brewery's silo once it got dark.

The client really wanted to turn up the heat, so we arranged Pyro effects with (insert company) including timed flame and spark systems and flash/bang effects.

Wetherby Beer Festival 2025: Full Event Production with Kv2 Sound, Allen & Heath Consoles

So, It's that time of year again and Audioserv were invited back to provide full production for The Wetherby Beer Festival 2025.

Every year, Wetherby Beer Festival is growing in size and this year our Kv2 sound system provided the acoustic clarity needed for such a busy and large event. With multiple bands on stage along with acoustic singers and kids entertainment acts we also needed a mix solution that fit our requirements along with having a monitor mix engineer as well. To this end, two of our Allen & Heath D-Live S7000 consoles worked together perfectly and with our FOH engineer mixing the bands effortlessly great sound was enjoyed by everyone throughout the two day festival.

Lighting in the marquee provided a few challenges, mainly with the marquee being a low roof height and the length of the marquee. We designed a lighting arrangement that worked not only for the lighting engineer but also the performers on stage giving them as much stage space as possible to perform on. Our 7R beams punched through the haze with ease right to the back of the marquee.

We used a mix of BeamZ Pro 7R Beams, ADJ Jolt Panel FX panels, LED Wash Moving Heads, BeamZ Pro 2 Cell IP Blinders and BeamZ Pro fresnels. We designed a goal post truss that just fit in under the marquee and then provided a lighting floor package of fixtures so that the acts were lit up from the front and side with rear floor lighting providing a nice backlight. The Jolt's were perfect at providing 'eye candy' when the acoustic acts were on and allowed the crowd to fully focus on the act on stage.

For the first time a large rotating mirror ball was hung in the marquee and with 8 of our 7R beams focused on it the mirror ball reflected their beams all over the marquee.

With the weather being very warm and clear skies, the beer was flowing, the music was great and the turn-out was superb a great weekend was had by all.

Assured Data Protection Hybrid Conference 2025 at Queens Hotel Leeds | Event Production & AV Solutions

Assured Data Protection approached us for their hybrid conference between their Leeds office and their offices in America. 

They wanted to be able to have key speakers speaking from both offices, sharing a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and both key speakers being able to control the slides. The Leeds key speaker along with the Leeds based audience wanted to be seen in America and vice versa.

We used Zoom as the platform of choice, audio was provided by our slim RCF column speakers, with a pair of RCF column speakers used for delays. A pair of our Blackmagic 4k Pro cameras were used for the audience feed and also the key speaker feed, these were connected by our NDI devices which provided feeds over the IP network we had created for the event which then could be picked up and feed to the zoom feeds.

Audio was routed thorough our Allen & Heath SQ5 digital desk, eq'd and again routed into zoom for perfect audio.

Our Panasonic 6000 lumen projector provided the powerpoint visuals on a 3mt fast fold rear projection screen, the US key speaker and audience were shown on two of our 65" TV screens.

The event was a huge success and the client was very happy with the conference.