084 VENUE
Image by PavCo / BC Place
between audio consultant Ian Wolfe of Acoustical Design Group and Clair Systems, who designed the amplification and control systems with assistance from Audinate,
Lab.gruppen, Peavey, JBL, Audio Associates and Tech Spa. A cross-company team of over 30 people contributed to this part of the project alone. Ian Wolfe’s first professional project was at BC Place as a contractor in 1982. He reflected: “I was always proud to be a part of BC Place when it was first built. I put a lot of time and effort into the installation of the sound system and learned a lot in a short period of time. It was BC Place which launched my professional career. I had maintained contact with the operations folks at the stadium over the years and would visit occasionally when visiting Vancouver, which is where I was born and raised. “Having the opportunity to work on the building from a design standpoint was always a dream. I always had been thinking about what I would do if I had the chance to implement an upgrade to the
www.mondodr.com
sound system. My dream came true.” A total of 160 JBL VLA601-WRC line array cabinets were specified, making it the largest VLA installation to date. Above the seating, 12 arrays have been flown, evenly spaced around the oval structure. Each array comprises 11 JBL VLA601-WRC cabinets. Six more clusters of VLA601-WRC cabinets under the scoreboard - four of five and two of four - and two down firing JBL PD5212 speakers, cover the entire floor of the stadium, totalling approximately three acres. “We needed loudspeakers that could provide a lot of output and could cover that large space,” noted Clair Systems’ Senior Engineer Jim Devenney. The concern was that an increase to the arena’s volume, with the new roof, would result in an over-reverberant space. Wolfe explained: “As a buildings internal volume increases, the acoustical / sound challenges increase exponentially. All large
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148 |
Page 149 |
Page 150 |
Page 151 |
Page 152 |
Page 153 |
Page 154 |
Page 155 |
Page 156 |
Page 157 |
Page 158 |
Page 159 |
Page 160 |
Page 161 |
Page 162 |
Page 163 |
Page 164