A A Sound installs Sound and Lighting at Edgewood Community Center
Update on Aruba
AA Sound and Lighting opens a second company in Aruba! We will be keeping the location in Barberton Ohio as well. AA Sound & Lighting America will still be a full service Stage, Sound, Lighting and Video Production House. Please know that we will still have the same crew that we have had for years. Our address , phone , fax and email will all stay the same. We will be able to do any of the shows we have done in the past so business will go on as usual. Thanks America for the first 20 years!
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A A Sound installs Sound and Lighting at Edgewood Community Center
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Radison Hotel in Aruba
A picture from the last trip to Aruba
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2.13.06
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State of the art sound systems
EV BRINGS NEW LIFE TO
AKRON UNIVERSITY ARENA
The James A. Rhodes Arena at Akron University, Ohio, has
taken on a new lease of life, thanks to a new sound reinforcement system
featuring EV FRX+ loudspeakers and P-RL Series remote-control amplifiers running
IRIS software. Regional company AA Sound & Lighting, Inc., completed the design
and installation. AA Sound’s Will Roth reported:
“We originally thought of installing a line array system in the JAR arena, but
found the central suspended scoreboard to be prohibitive. After running more
EASE models and looking at alternatives with Jason Jacquemain (of Telex Pro
Audio Group reps CL Pugh), we found an application-specific solution in EV’s FRX+
boxes, which are designed for maximum directivity control in problematic
reverberant spaces like this. The coverage and intelligibility these boxes offer
in critical speech and music frequencies is excellent. Rather than settling for
‘less than a line array’, in FRX+ we found a real troubleshooter that was built
for the job and exceeded our clients expectations. Now every seat in the house
is covered with clear sound up to around 105 dB.”
AA Sound installed (12) FRX+940, (6) FRX+660 full-range boxes and (6) QRx218S
subs. The system is powered by (8) P3000RL, (4) P1200RL remote control DSP
amplifiers running IRIS software. A Midas Venice 160 is used for mixing the
system. In addition, the system also features (2) Telex FMR-1000 wireless mic
systems and (2) Telex BTR-800 wireless intercom systems with (8) TR-800 belt
packs.
Roth added: “Working with IRIS allowed us to preset the system for the various
application scenarios that occur in the arena, maximizing the utility of the
system without compromising its performance. Now, having completed our IRIS
training sessions, the operators can easily change the system configuration at
the touch of a screen, rather than trying to negotiate with a ton of complicated
hardware. With IRIS, the end-user doesn’t have to be an expert to sound like
one. We set up eight different user panels to control various audio zones and
power distribution, including one for basketball games, one for graduation
ceremonies, one for smaller volleyball games (no upper level coverage needed),
and one for DVD/Scoreboard playback. The system sounds great across the board.
“The feedback we’ve received from the stadium managers has been extremely
positive,” Roth continued, “it’s the best sound they’ve had in there since the
arena was built in the early 1970’s. Now, rather than being an oversized
gymnasium, the new sound system has opened up the possibilities, making the JAR
a real multi-purpose space.”