With an 11-piece lineup based on the 1988-89 ‘A Delicate Sound of Thunder’ touring band, The Delicate Sound of Pink Floyd has quickly become established as one of the UK’s leading Pink Floyd tribute bands. Shows typically take place in remarkable architectural spaces, most recently in early March at Oxford Town Hall, a Grade II listed late 19th-century building in the heart of the world-famous British university city.
Spectacular lighting and lasers elevate the show, which also emphasises precision sound. To ensure consistently high production standards, the band always uses Oxford-based Event Production Services for whom NEXO is the sound system of choice for both front of house and stage monitoring.
“We’re using a NEXO GEO M12 front-of-house system, the reason being that it’s very quick to rig, it sounds fantastic, and its directivity keeps things well controlled within these types of buildings where there’s often hard surfaces everywhere” commented EPS managing director Robert Nisbet, ahead of soundcheck at the Oxford gig.
“We’re using NEXO GEO M6 as delays, chosen primarily because they’re so closely voiced to the rest of the GEO M Series, and then we have our stage monitor package which is all based around NEXO’s P+ range. We have several P12s on stage and they are just fantastically well controlled. The directivity works well and gives us lots of separation on stage. And there’s so much headroom – they’re clear, they’re really loud and they do it without problems with feedback.”
“Mixing on NEXO has been really good” reported FOH engineer Asa Holbrook. “It’s got the throw and highs that we need, and also a nice tight low end.”
Speaking for the band, bass player and lead vocalist James Winnicott said, “After the first show we did, we got about 150 very complimentary emails, with so many people saying the sound was crystal clear. The NEXO gear has been absolutely faultless. The sound is second to none.”
“We’ve bought quite heavily into NEXO, concluded Nisbet. “The voicing across the range is so consistent. It gives us the opportunity to provide really high-quality coverage to a variety of events, from the smallest scale corporate events right through to larger rock and roll shows like this.”