Adwar Video, of Plainview, NY, has designed the system and installation has now been completed. Adwar Video founder Mike Adwar comments: "The university needed to be able to provide each with room with its own sound system, both operable independently of each other, but which could also be linked to feed both rooms with the same signal sources."
The two separate rooms seat a total of some 600 people, and the loudspeaker system was required to be able to handle any type of situation. Adwar's team determined that flown systems would provide ideal coverage of the rooms without exciting excessive reverberation, and preserving both vocal clarity and musicality. The chosen solution was selected from Renkus-Heinz's range of RPA systems, pre-configured loudspeaker arrays that are designed to make the integrator's task simpler.
In the RPA concept, compatible loudspeakers from the Renkus-Heinz product range are pre-configured complete with the necessary flying hardware, cabling and amplifiers in a rig optimised for each individual project. This pre-configuration is carried out by Renkus-Heinz at its Foothill ranch factory, working in close collaboration with the integrator.
"For the bigger ballroom," Adwar explains, "we specified a four-wide horizontal RPA, based on the TX15/4-4 loudspeaker, while in the smaller room we chose a two-wide horizontal RPA using the TX12/6-2 cabinet. We flew all the clusters from the ceiling to provide optimum sonic performance and so that zero floor space was taken up." All the loudspeakers are powered by matching Renkus-Heinz amps located in the equipment rack.
The rest of the A/V system comprises a 16-channel Mackie desk, Beyerdynamic wireless microphones, Sony video data projectors, an Extron audio/video switcher, Crestron touch panels, a Peavey feedback eliminator and Peavey equalisation.
Adds Mike Adwar: "The client is very happy that we can provide an integrated system so that the electronics are matched to the speakers themselves, and the results speak for themselves."
(Lee Baldock)
