SIMONDS STADIUM Home of the Geelong Cats, Simonds Stadium has become one of the biggest and most successful multi-purpose venues in Victoria, Australia. Building on this success, the stadium recently underwent a three-stage renovation project, adding a new southern grandstand and increasing its seating capacity to over 35,000. As part of the renovation project, Australia-based Total Events was called upon to design, supply and install the PA system for the new grandstand choosing JBL AWC all weather loudspeakers for the grandstand, JBL Control 25 loudspeakers for the walkways and JBL Control 24CT ceiling loudspeakers into the functions spaces, the stadium was also the fi rst venue in Australia to receive a BSS Soundweb London BLU-805 audio-video bridging system. “We installed 14 JBL AWC129 loudspeakers and 16 JBL AWC82 loudspeakers for the seating bowl and under balcony fi lls,” said Bill Busbridge, Managing Director of Total Events. “We chose them as they are robust, high powered and totally suitable for the application. They also fi tted in well with the architects aesthetic requirements.” The BSS London Soundweb BLU-805 AVB installed allows 64 incoming AVB channels and 64 outgoing AVB channels at 48kHz or 32 incoming AVB channels and 32 outgoing AVB channels at 96kHz. Confi guration, control and monitoring is provided by HiQnet London Architect. The audio is fed from the BSS Soundweb London boxes via BLU-Link to the Crown CTs amplifi ers in various rack rooms which drive the loudspeaker system. “The main audio feed is derived from the existing system control which is about 300-metres away from the new racks, so we used AVB to link from that system via fi bre through to the new zone,” explained Bill. “The BLU-805 picked up its feeds nicely. The BLU-805 also controls three function spaces and it certainly made our job a lot easier. I’ve been back a couple of times to tweak the system and it is really simple to patch back in and make changes on the fl y.” Bill also commented on the support received during the design and implementation of the system by Harman distributor Jands saying: “Jands brought David Bradshaw to the stadium during the implementation to assist with the set up and programming. David also did the basic set up and programming of units before they were dispatched from the Sydney warehouse to us. They arrived pre- confi gured and it was almost plug ‘n’ play at our end.”
TECHNICAL INFORMATION SOUND
30 x JBL Control 24CT loudspeaker; 6 x JBL Control 25 loudspeaker; 14 x JBL AWC129 loudspeaker; 16 x JBL AWC82 loudspeaker; 4 x Crown CTs 3000 amplifier; 3 x Crown CTs 1200 amplifier; 1 x Crown CTs 8200 amplifier; 1 x BSS Soundweb London BLU-805 processor; 1 x BSS Soundweb London BLU-325 processor; 3 x BSS Soundweb London BLU-BIB input expander; 3 x BSS Soundweb London BLU-8v2 wall controller
www.geelongaustralia.com.au/simondsstadium
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