114 VENUE
Photo courtesy of The Light Group VIDEO CONTENT
A total of 54 Fulcrum Acoustic Prophile S coaxial loudspeakers that benefi t from a wide beamwidth, four Fulcrum Acoustic Prophile P loudspeaker producing high SPLs and further Fulcrum Acoustic US212 subwoofers have been installed in the bar areas at Light. John commented: “Both EAW and Fulcrum have been great partners to work with over the years in the development of unique product lines to fi t the bill when something did not already exist. The people behind both companies share the same DNA and have worked with each other in some form or another for many years so the creativity and technological breakthroughs from them have been nothing short of magical.”
The sound system is powered by a series of Crown amplifi ers, 18 Macro Tech 5000i and 20 Macro Tech 9000i, both of which feature power factor correction technology allowing the units to adjust to any frequency in real time. Two Crown CDi 4000 amplifi ers featuring built-in crossover, EQ fi lter, delay and output limiting as well as fi ve Crown XTi 4002 amplifi ers with an onboard power supply to increase SPLs complete the amp rack at Light.
Loudspeaker management also came from Harman in the form of four BSS Soundweb London BLU-160 signal processors with a digital audio bus comprising 256 channels. Two BSS Soundweb London BLU-BIB break in boxes and a single BSS Soundweb London BLU-BOB2 break out box expand the system by offering an additional eight channels of analogue audio input per unit. John said: “There are presets that we wrote into the master system control that permit operations to change the EQ of the room to fi t the type of performance being presented.”
John selected a Soundcraft Si1 digital console for Light because of its compact appearance, its user friendliness and its ability to produce great sound. It is primarily used during the Cirque du Soleil perfor- mances to look after wireless communication between performers. Cirque du Soleil shows are carefully executed, but they require precision as well as a trust of the surrounding for the acrobats, and the space at Light is as complex in the air as it is at fl oor level. Two 30ft wide and 20ft high acrowalls - a central feature in the venue - use a multilayer projection technique combining a mesh surface and a transparent surface. Content can be projected - using Light’s four Barco HDX W18 projectors and four Barco DL-3 projectors - onto the surface, while performers are behind it in transparency, which adds a sense of depth the to venue. The two acrowalls are also inter- active and can track the performers as they move across the surface and create 3D effects.
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“We utilised a healthy amount of beam fi xtures due to the large cubic
volume of airspace that we had to work with. A
single beam scanning over such a long distance can
be very dynamic. Take 100 of them used properly and they are staggering.”
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