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Lawo, E-V make good Friends By Erica Basnicki
SWEDEN’S NEWnational stadium, the Friends Arena in Solna near Stockholm, has been fitted with a Lawo-based media production centre, and sound reinforcement from Electro-Voice. Operated by Onside TV
Productions, a full-service production facility owned by Föreningen Svensk Elitfotboll (SEF, the Swedish Elite Football
floating-point processing. It offers up to 760 inputs and up to 64 subgroups, with 32 aux sends, up to 96 track busses and up to 48 main summing busses. The sapphire, meanwhile, supports 96 mono DSP input channels with 128 DSP modules (96 on input channels, 32 on summing busses). The DALLIS I/O system can accommodate a wide range of plug-in cards via a central master card, which is
redundant NetMax N8000 controllers with DM-1 modules for integration into the Dante network. Four identically configured racks are located beneath the roof; these feed not only the 12 markedly curved XLD281 hangs serving the stands but also the eight horn-loaded EVH-1152S/66 coaxial systems from the EV-Innovation family covering the playing area, with a quarter
of the stadium assigned to each rack. Five additional system racks are housed in the ground floor of the arena; these serve all the ancillary zones, such as passageways, catering facilities and areas not normally open to the public, including the banqueting hall, which is equipped with 14 EVF-1152S/64 loudspeakers. n
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Romanticum, a new tourist attraction based in Koblenz, Germany, has opened its doors with a 360º Iosono 3D sound solution. Visitors to the 800sqm exhibition will be taken on a historic journey through the Rhine valley, learning about the river and its legends with state- of-the-art sound technology. “With Iosono's audio processing and positioning technology we were able to create a detailed and authentic sound space,” said Aleesa Savtchenko, creative director and CEO of Taucher Sound Environments, which realised the sound concept.
www.iosono.com
The 65,000-capacity Friends Arena has been outfitted with Lawo and Electro-Voice technology
Association) and Svenska Fotbollförbundet (SvFF, the Swedish Football Association), the media facility is intended primarily to serve Swedish football events, but other productions can be handled from the venue itself and via its extensive telecom solutions. The Friends Arena
production centre comprises three fully equipped production rooms and two sound suites, along with two edit suites, a voiceover studio, vision control and a graphics facility. The sound suites are both equipped with full 5.1
monitoring, with a 16+16-fader Lawo mc256 MKII console installed in Audio Control 1 and two 8+8-fader Lawo sapphire consoles in Audio Control 2. The facility also has a studio overlooking the stadium that has one of four moveable Lawo DALLIS stageboxes as part of a Lawo network, connecting all the consoles and stageboxes. The mc256 MKII offers 888 audio channels and 144 summing busses, and uses 40-bit
available with Ravenna or MADI interfaces. The Onside production centre also serves as a master control room for all of Sweden’s football matches, both for live broadcast and recording. Everything the centre handles is also recorded for possible editing for use in weekly highlight programmes and for archiving. Danmon Sverige, Lawo’s partner in Sweden, handled the system integration. The invitation to tender for the
sound reinforcement solution was won by British firm LBI Projects, which was also responsible for London’s Wembley Stadium. The company opted for an Electro- Voice XLVC line array system comprising XLD281 cabinets. The complete audio
installation is integrated into a redundant Dante audio network on a gigabit, single-mode fibre- optic basis. Nine compact system racks feed all the loudspeakers in the arena. Each of the racks is equipped with CPS 8.5 power amplifiers with RCM-810 remote modules and
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