Turbosound's innovative, high-efficiency Aspect series loudspeakers were deployed by Bristol-based South West Production Services, for the John Peel Stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival. This stage - traditionally home to emerging artists, and renamed this year in John Peel's honour - was the first one up and running, and the only system operating for the first few hours of the festival, due to the flash floods and power outages that affected the start of Glastonbury 2005. Protected by the John Peel Stage's 60m x 40m tent, the Turbosound Aspect system handled a huge range of musical styles across the fast-changeover sequence of new bands, which were enjoyed by the tent's audience of around 4000 people. South West Production Services equipped the main FOH rig for the John Peel Stage with just 30 Aspect loudspeakers, configured with 6 x TA-890H touring mid-highs per side in a 3 x 2 format, and 9 x TA-890L touring bass cabinets per side, arranged 3 x 3. Additional TA-890H units were also deployed as fills. All the loudspeakers in the main left-right system were ground-stacked and locked together using Aspect's integral rigging system. Three of Turbosound's new TSW-218 double-18", large-format subwoofers - specifically designed to complement Turbosound's Aspect series - were used per side to add additional warmth at the very low end. The entire rig was powered by just four Turbosound amp racks, with three T-45 and two T-25 power amps per rack, with the FoH system using a Turbosound LMS-D6 for control, and with XTA's new DP428 controllers also deployed. The John Peel Stage featured a constantly changing variety of bands each day, from 10:00am until around 01:00am, with the Aspect loudspeakers handling everything from the heavy electronica of M83, to the guitar driven Maximo Park, as well as Willy Mason's stripped-down acoustic set and the beat-heavy samples of LCD Sound System. Jerey Denning from Bristol-based Enhance Audio, along with mix engineer Aron Ross, were among the prime movers in suggesting that South West Production Services used an Aspect rig for the John Peel Stage. Ross, one of the two co-engineers mixing this stage for South West Production Services, commented: "My first experience of the Turbosound Aspects was during The Shadows' European tour earlier this year - I found the speakers' performance really impressive, and the design flies beautifully. We had a relatively small number of speakers for that tour, and they handled the range of venues and audiences - from 2,000 to nearly 6,000 - very successfully. When I heard that South West Production Services were providing the sound for the John Peel Stage, I gave them a call and suggested they really should give the Aspects a try. As we were the only stage to open on the Friday, we were able to give the system a real work out, and with only one stage working, noise control was not an issue! Due to the stage layout, the Aspect stacks were hidden behind scrim, but fortunately the HF didn't suffer - this would have been a different story with a line array system. The system sounded great across the huge range of bands featured on the John Peel Stage, and we received lots of positive comments, especially from the bands' own engineers, many of whom hadn't heard Aspect before and insisted on going onto the stage to check them out." Will Biggs, co-engineer working with Aron Ross, added his comments on the Aspect rig's performance at Glastonbury: "The best rig in the world - and you can quote me - I've never mixed on anything as good as this system, it is absolutely awesome! This was my first experience with Aspect, and at first I was really quite surprised by the look of the boxes, very compact and completely different from any previous Turbosound products. We hardly EQ'd the rig at all, just backed off a touch at 100Hz, and we were ready. The first band - The Infadels - used keyboards and bass guitar, with synth bass lines running as well, and the speakers successfully delivered the very fat bottom end, as well as the clicky top-end definition of the bass guitar strings. The vocal range was immense, very clear and sharp, and not needing to EQ the vocals was the only odd thing about the whole experience, and it was only odd because we didn't need to do it! The Aspect rig was particularly impressive with M83 - they had a huge, full-on sound that I wouldn't have expected a rig looking this small to be able to deliver. We had about 25 guest engineers on the John Peel Stage during the festival, and every one commented very positively on the sound quality. Its consistency was impeccable throughout. Truly awesome!"