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RENOWNED IN THE STADIUM WORLD, AUDITORIA DIRECTOR SCOTT WILLSALLEN WAS TASKED WITH UPGRADING THE SOUND SYSTEM AT A STADIUM WITH HISTORY OF OLYMPIC GLORY AND HIS UNCONVENTIAL DESIGN FOR A STADIUM APPLICATION IS SET TO MAKE HISTORY AGAIN FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS.
consultant for the ANZ Stadium upgrade. Scott’s involvement with the capacity conversion from 110,000 to 80,000 during the time he was employed by The P.A. People - the company which carried out the first installation and this one too - was yet another reason to ap- point him. For Scott, although he has plenty of experience in stadium sound, this is the first time he has headed up the design team for a permanent installation in a stadium, so the project is quite a personal achievement.
Simon continued: “More than many individuals, Scott’s experience is closer to the event based side of sporting presentation. Having been responsible for PA design for the opening and closing ceremony of the Olympics, the Commonwealth and the Asian Games, he has that understanding of using stadium audio to enhance the visitor experience; to use it as a dramatic tool. That’s exactly the level of excitement we wanted for our stadium so we made the decision to raise the bar, to properly address major sporting events, to evoke
more interest, and provide more enjoyment.” Scott was keen to use as much of the existing infrastructure as possible for the new design, this included the cabling, rigging points, amplifier room and signal distribution points. This would not only reduce the risk of causing any damage to these areas but would also leave a larger budget for the sound system itself. The design brief for the audio was high performance for a stadium but fairly generic in so much that it was equivalent to a high perfor- mance auditorium design. The loudspeaker system was required to deliver high intelligibility for speech content and a concert-like expe- rience of high SPL, full bandwidth, impact and envelopment for live performance, music replay, advertisements and video playback. Scott explained further: “I released a call for designs package which consisted of the performance requirements, an EASE model of the building, how many circuits we have at each position and where the positions are in the venue, and how much power we have in the
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