Installation Showcase: July 2010

Installation Showcase: July 2010

PROJECT/LOCATION


Wynn Encore
Las Vegas, NV
Consultant and/or Installer
JOHN LYONS SYSTEMS
Challenge
Deliver nightclub level, high fidelity sound in an aesthetically pleasing, compact form factor for the $67 million Beach Club adult pool and Surrender Nightclub.
Equipment Highlights
The Beach: 43 Fulcrum Acoustic Prophile M weather resistant loudspeakers, 28 Prophile US212 weather resistant loudspeakers, eight Prophile CSB ceiling subwoofers, two Prophile US221 weather resistant subwoofers. Surrender Nightclub: six Prophile L loudspeakers, two Prophile M loudspeakers, 10 Prophile S loudspeakers, two Prophile Sub115 subwoofers, two Prophile US212 subwoofers, three Prophile US221 subwoofers.

PROJECT/LOCATION


Ray And Joan Kroc Community Center
Dayton, OH
Consultant and/or Installer
COPP SYSTEMS
Challenge
Provide a durable wireless microphone setup that enables community center staffers and others to communicate with those who participate in the facility’s various programs in a congested RF area.
Equipment Highlights
A 14-channel wireless microphone system consisting of three Lectrosonics VRMWB receiver chassis—two fully stocked, each with six Lectrosonics VRS receiver modules and the third unit housing the two remaining channels. Two Lectrosonics ALP500 “shark fin” directional antennas boost reception capabilities; eight Lectrosonics LMa beltpack transmitters and six HM series plug-on transmitters.

PROJECT/LOCATION


Transat A.T.
Montreal, QC, Canada
Consultant and/or Installer
GLOBAL AUDIO VISUAL
Challenge
Add speech reinforcement in the general headquarters meeting room and allow effective communication through a portable wireless managed push-to-talk conference system that could also be used for off-site meetings.
Equipment Highlights
TAIDEN HCS-5300 digital infrared wireless conferencing system chairman unit and 11 dual-ID HCS-5302D delegate push-to-talk microphones with table-top and ergonomically designed interface.

PROJECT/LOCATION


Community Pentecostal Church
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Consultant and/or Installer
AUDIO PLUS SOUND SOLUTIONS
Challenge
Upgrade the church’s audio system to cover an additional 20 percent of the seating area for the 1,000-person congregation, while improving intelligibility and music clarity.
Equipment Highlights
Measurements with SIA Acoustic Tools; three clusters of JBL PD series loudspeakers, each consisting of a PD5212/95 over a PD5200/95, and a small pie-shaped area in the middle using PD5212/43 and PD5212/64; JBL ASB6128V sub; Crown CTs and XTi amps; BSS London BLU-16 processors; and JBL MRX512M floor monitors.

PROJECT/LOCATION


Laguna Presbyterian Church
Laguna Beach, CA
Consultant and/or Installer
VENEKLASEN ASSOCIATES AND DOCKTRDAVE AUDIO
Challenge
Cap off a two-year renovation with an audio solution that would aurally envelope the congregation while preserving the aesthetics of the 82-year-old Spanish mission style building.
Equipment Highlights
Sixteen miniature cardioid and omnidirectional microphones pick up the room’s acoustics, with signals processed by one Meyer Sound MS-Constellation and two MS-VRAS processors. The VRAS processors generate 32 de-correlated reverberant signals that are distributed through the system’s 48 outputs to 67 loudspeakers. Reinforcement by 14 UPM-1P, four UPM-2P, two CQ-2, eight UPJunior VariO loudspeakers, and 15 Stella-4 installation loudspeakers, as well as 500-HP and USW-1P subwoofers.

PROJECT/LOCATION


Trinity Baptist Church
Lake Charles, LA
Consultant and/or Installer
PORCHE ADVANCED SYSTEMS
Challenge
Create a digital backdrop for Bible stories in the new Worship Theater for children.
Equipment Highlights
A Vista Spyder X20 image processor performs a fiveprojector blend for Bible storytelling, layering graphics, song lyrics, DVD and Blu-ray content as well as input from a PC and the pastor’s laptop. The screen size is 60 feet wide to 10 feet high for a total pixel space of 5120x786.

PROJECT/LOCATION


Palace Theatre For The Performing Arts
Tamarac, FL
Consultant and/or Installer
PEERSON AUDIO
Challenge
Properly tune and align the system to deliver greater SPL without any increase in the amplifier output for a 1,000-seat theater with excellent acoustics.
Equipment Highlights
Existing Meyer Sound MSL-3 full-range powered loudspeakers in columns on either side of the stage, existing Altec Lansing cluster, aligned with the addition of an Ashly ne8800 8x8 DSP.

PROJECT/LOCATION


St. Mary’s Parish
Mount Angel, OR
Consultant and/or Installer
DELTA AV
Challenge
Improve speech intelligibility in a church built in 1912, with vaulted ceilings, ornate stained glass windows and crucifixshaped, Revival Gothic architecture.
Equipment Highlights
A distributed system of 10 Community Professional Loudspeakers ENTASYS High Performance Column Line- Array Systems—two pairs of ENTASYS cabinets cover the front and side wings, with three more pairs mounted further back and delayed via Biamp DSP. A pair of VLF208W subwoofers provide low end reinforcement, and QSC amplifiers power the system.

PROJECT/LOCATION


Shoreline Community Church
Monterey, CA
Consultant and/or Installer
CCI SOLUTIONS
Challenge
Complete the first phase of a full audio system retrofit for a 950-seat worship center.
Equipment Highlights
Two clusters of six L-Acoustics KIVA enclosures each paired with two KILO low-frequency extension boxes; four SB28 subs are horizontally flown between the arrays, with four 12XTi coaxial systems utilized to provide sidefill and delay; two LA4 amplified controllers power and process the mains, while the subs and coaxials are driven by two LA8.

PROJECT/LOCATION


Harvest Church
Washington, NC
Consultant and/or Installer
HI-TECH ELECTRONICS
Challenge
Accommodate the atypical diagonal corner location of the stage and the approximately 550 people in attendance during services in a newly constructed church with a six-piece praise band and a praise leader with a small vocal group and a 30-voice choir.
Equipment Highlights
Twelve WorxAudio TrueLine V8-P powered line arrays and two TL218SS-P Super Subs arranged in two clusters, each with six V8-P elements, flown over the left and right front edges of the stage/altar area; arrays are suspended using WorxAudio’s TrueAim Grid; a single TrueLine M80-P is suspended over the center stage area.

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