installationnews UNITED KINGDOM New kit for Old Billingsgate By Erica Basinicki
OLD BILLINGSGATE, one of London’s largest ‘blank canvas’ venues, has been fitted with a new sound system, provided by AV installers LCI. The installation included a Soundcraft Vi1 digital mixing console, JBL and Martin Audio loudspeakers, and Crown amplifiers. Specifically, a Martin Audio W8LM mini line array forms the core of the audio system. LCI specified two left/right hangs, each comprising five W8LM
elements and a W8LMD downfill unit per side – supplied by Capital Sound. The low end is derived using a pair of Martin Audio WLX subwoofers. A total of four MA5.2K DSP amplifiers and an MA12K DSP amplifier for the WLX subwoofers power the system. A number of JBL Control 1
Pros were installed as infills for the upper and lower mezzanine, powered by Crown CDi1000 amplifiers, and 14 JBL PRX 615M self-powered monitors were installed as delay speakers.
“These PRX cabinets
are superb for medium dispersion but long-throw audio, ideal for additional delay or fill coverage,” said LCI project manager Carl Miller. As for the Soundcraft Vi1,
this was chosen “for its highly intuitive operation, its pure sounding processing and the sheer capacity of such a physically compact desk”. Old Billingsgate is divided
into three spaces; the vast 2,600sqm main space, with its
Old Billingsgate hosted Club France during the London Olympics
triple height ceilings, is the centrepiece and can host events in excess of 1,000 people. All venue design and consultation was carried out by LCI’s project managers
FOHHN AUDIO has supplied a range of loudspeaker systems for a series of installations at the historic Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany. The Neue Aula hall has been equipped with a Linea Focus LFI-220 electronically steerable active line array system. Mounted on brackets to the left and right of an illuminated panel structure on the front wall, each loudspeaker contains 16 integrated 4” neodymium speakers, Class D amplifiers and separate DSP
channels. In Hörsaal 13, a general- purpose 420-seater lecture theatre, two Linea Focus LFI-220 systems and an XS-30 active subwoofer have been installed. In a second smaller lecture theatre with less challenging acoustics, two Linea LX-150 loudspeakers have been mounted on side walls towards the front of the room. These are powered by LX-150 systems are powered by a Fohhn two-channel D-2.750 DSP amplifier. n www.fohhn.com