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Plymouth Life Centre upgrades audio for summer Games synchronised swimming training
THE NEW £46.5 million (€58 million) Plymouth Life Centre, designed to be one of the country’s leading centres of sporting excellence, has been hosting training sessions for Olympics 2012 synchronised swimming teams. It is aided by a substantial audio installation from Stage Electrics that takes the company’s expertise underwater as well as around the pool and other facilities. Plymouth’s largest ever
investment in leisure facilities includes a leisure pool, 50m Olympic size competition pool and a professional diving pool. A distributed system around the main pool areas is based on K-array KK200 line arrays, each matched with a KN10SW 10” subwoofer, both powered by K-array KA10-10 DSP- equipped amplification. K-array KK200 modules cover the main pool areas: two apiece for the diving and leisure pools, with two KN10SW-P passive 2 x
UNITED KINGDOM Polar Audio perks up Parc Eirias training ground
MARTIN DAWESSolutions and Polar Audio have installed a public address and background music system for Parc Eirias, a newly developed £6.5 million (€8.1 million) venue in Colwyn Bay, north Wales. Opened in November 2011,
Parc Eirias includes conference and classroom facilities, an indoor training ground, gym, high-performance sports analysis facilities, a swimming pool, tennis courts and an international standard pitch. It has also been earmarked as the likely home for fledgling rugby union side RGC 1404. Three Biamp AudiaFLEX
mainframe DSPs with Cobranet
are at the heart of the public address and background music system, one situated in the plant room, a second in one of the two commentator boxes and the third in the TV broadcast room. Biamp RED-1 remote wall panel controls are situated around the site to control the source and volume, one in each of the multipurpose units, the gym, bar area, TV comms rooms and home changing rooms. The system is powered by six
Australian Monitor AMIS-250P units, six AMIS-480P power amplifiers power the 100V line speakers and 10 Australian Monitor XA-1400 power amplifiers run the 12” two-way speakers in the
Parc Eirias boasts a host of top-class facilities
grandstand and indoor training facility. Over 70 Australian Monitor AM20 CS 100V ceiling speakers are situated around the stadium providing background music and sound for announcements. “As the site is a brand new facility hosting new events, the main challenge on this project (apart from the short installation timescale) was to create a flexible and powerful system that is easy to use, can be quickly adapted to meet the fluid operational requirements of a new facility, and allows expansion for the future,” said Paul Berry, audio visual solutions architect at Martin Dawes.n
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10” steel skin subwoofers, finished in white, for the leisure pool and a further four KN10SW-Ps for the diving pool. Four KK200s cover the competition pool where banks of seating accommodate 400 spectators.
The competition and diving
offices’ show relay systems feature Bose Freespace DS 40F speakers, again in white, while show relay in the stairwells is handled by Bose Freespace DS 16SE speakers, all powered by Cloud VTX4120
amplifiers. All components near to water are appropriately IP rated, mount fittings are in stainless steel and facility panels are also moisture sealed. For the underwater action,
Stage Electrics specified specialised loudspeakers from the North Canton, Ohio-based O.E. Enterprises, two of whose Oceanears DRS-8 units have been fixed to the pool’s walls, powered by Crown CTS3000 amplifiers.
The reflective effect of the
air/water boundary at the pool surface means sound from above barely reaches the swimmers. Added to which is the speed of sound in water, some 4.4 times that of sound in air. An Allen & Heath IDR8 DSP system, via which audio is zoned over seven areas in the main facility hall including one zone for the underwater system, provides the delay to sync the underwater
The system in the main pool is based around a K-array KK200 setup
system, providing matching audio when swimmers’ heads emerge from the water as part of their routines. Stage Electrics’ Anne Pengelly
says the company provided a “simple, user-operable” portable Ecler mixer and playback rack and Sennheiser G3 radio mic systems, and that “our team spent 75% of their time pulling cables under the hydraulically raised pool floor at night”. n
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