PROJECT/LOCATION
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Denver, CO
Consultant and/or Installer
ELECTROSONIC
Challenge
Create highly interactive and personalized activities featuring AV displays, projection, and touchscreens for the Expedition Health permanent exhibition, minimizing equipment for storage in compact spaces built into the exhibits.
Equipment Highlights
Blaupunkt speakers, Industrial Image LCD monitors, Gefen extenders, Adtec HD player, ELO touchscreen, Dell computers, Panasonic PTD-W5100 projectors, Alcorn McBride DVM7400 hard disk and SD video players, Museum Tools Sound Sensor, Sharp 46-inch monitors, PI Engineering interface, Easy Capture USB video-capture, Logitech QuickCam 9000 webcams, AMX PC1 remote power units.

PROJECT/LOCATION
Payne County Courthouse
Stillwater, OK
Consultant and/or Installer
ASPEN CUSTOM ELECTRONICS
Challenge
Upgrade the audio system so proceedings remain clear and focused in the reverberant courthouse designed for optimal natural voice projection in 1917.
Equipment Highlights
AKG GN15 gooseneck at the judge’s stand, one GN30 Gooseneck at the attorney’s lectern, and one at the witness stand; an AKG WMS450 wireless body pack at the attorney’s lectern and an AKG DMM 4/2/2 Audio Mixer for the whole courthouse. Each mic uses a ST45 stand and a CK80 Mic Module. Processing by dbx AFS224, and a Crown 180A amplifier round out the system.

PROJECT/LOCATION
Moorings Presbyterian Church
Naples, FL
Consultant and/or Installer
RIEDEL AND ASSOCIATES; PRO AUDIO SERVICES
Challenge
Outfit a newly built 750-seat sanctuary with a sound reinforcement system to complement a 49-stop, 63-rank pipe organ; and support spoken-word and all manner of classical and contemporary music.
Equipment Highlights
A 48-channel Yamaha M7CL outputs to an Ashly ne24.24M loaded with 12 inputs and 12 outputs. The Ashly processor provides time alignment for the system, along with EQ curves, compression, and limiting. It feeds five QSC PL340 amps, which provide conditioning for Electro-Voice FRX+660 loudspeakers and PRUS+181 subwoofers.

PROJECT/LOCATION
JFK Airport
New York, NY
Consultant and/or Installer
TRONIC STUDIO; SCHARFF WEISBERG; FORMAVISION
Challenge
Design and implement the new Sprint videowall at the entrance to American Airlines terminal eight at JFK Airport.
Equipment Highlights
Fourteen 46-inch NEC MultiSync X461UN LCD displays; custom frame by Scenic Corp, Three Byte Intermedia custom video solution with 11-megapixel native resolution frame sequence playback, Dell computers, Matrox triple-head-to-go cards.

PROJECT/LOCATION
Watchung Hills Regional High School
Watchung Hills, NJ
Consultant and/or Installer
AUDIO INCORPORATED
Challenge
Provide programming and tuning services for a sound system in a new 1,000-seat theater that hosts plays, concerts, talent shows, and regional school board meetings.
Equipment Highlights
SymNet 8x8 DSP combined with a SymNet Break-In 12, SymNet ARC-SWK and ARC-SW wall-mounted interfaces, left-right pair of QSC WideLine-8 line arrays, four QSC WL212 flown subwoofers, two QSC MD-SP218 ground subwoofers, QSC PL series amplifiers, Yamaha M7CL 48 digital console, 16 wireless mic channels combined with a Sennheiser wired microphone package for instruments, eight dbTechnologies DVX series self-powered monitors.

PROJECT/LOCATION
Pathways Church
Denver, CO

PROJECT/LOCATION
The Village Church
Dallas, TX
Consultant and/or Installer
ACOUSTIC DIMENSIONS; CLAIR BROTHERS
Challenge
Design a scalable, theatrical style sound system for the Village Church’s Flower Mound Campus Worship Center, housed in a former grocery store, providing even coverage with clear vocal reproduction for a variety of musical styles.
Equipment Highlights
Six Adamson Arrays made up of a combination of SpekTrix and SpekTrix Ws. Between arrays B and C are three JBL subs in line, and directly behind the B and C arrays, Adamson SpekTrix subs are flown. The system of flying subs directly behind the main array is a factory suggested method that utilizes two rigging frames and a standard Adamson Frame Link Adapter. Lab.gruppen amplifiers with BSS Soundweb London for DSP.

PROJECT/LOCATION
Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem
Bethlehem, PA
Consultant and/or Installer
DIEFENDERFER ELECTRICAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONTRACTORS
Challenge
While the look of the Sands pays homage to the industrial heritage of the site on which it was built, the sound on the casino floor needed to be technically advanced.
Equipment Highlights
260 Tannoy Di8DCs on the casino floor arranged in groupings of four to five units per zone; 200 CMS 601s and Di6DCs in the restaurants; and a number CMS801 DCs in the Porte Cochere. Tannoy’s proprietary mounting hardware, yoke, and K Ball mounts greatly eased the job.

PROJECT/LOCATION
Auto Club Speedway
Fontana, CA
Consultant and/or Installer
PACIFIC SATELLITE
Challenge
To compete with the chest-compressing roar of powerful engines and the cheers of a few thousand spectators, it’s all about brute force decibels when designing a sound system for a motor speedway.
Equipment Highlights
104 of Community’s R.5HPT three-way loudspeaker systems are placed on posts at the foot of the stands, providing coverage to the main seating area. Several of the speedway’s old M4 units have been repurposed to reinforce coverage at the outer seating zones.

PROJECT/LOCATION
Southwest Minnesota State University Planetarium
Marshall, MN
Consultant and/or Installer
ELERT & ASSOCIATES TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANTS
Challenge
While refurbishing the planetarium, the school took the opportunity to replace its audio system with one that could support both its educational star projector programs and its popular laser light shows.
Equipment Highlights
Two custom-designed Bag End PQ10-ICUS powered 2000W subwoofers and an Infra-MXB bass processor. Also: five Tannoy Di8 DC mid-hi cabinet speakers, an Audio Technica ATW-3141aC handheld wireless package, an A-T ATW- 3192aC-TH headworn wireless package, a Shure SCM262 stereo mixer, a D&M Pro DN-A7100 surround pre-amp, and a Lab.gruppen C 10:8X amplifier.