CHADRON, NE – For a multi-room area within the student center at Chadron Stage College, which gets rented out as convention space, Haggerty's Audio Visual replaced an aging mechanical room combiner with Ashly Audio ne24.24M processor paired with neWR-5 wall mount remote controls.
Each of the five rooms can seat approximately 50 people. Combined, they can accommodate 400 guests with tables or 500 without.
"The time was right to bring the conference space into the 21st century," said Haggerty's Steve Foudray. To stay within budget, Haggerty's Steve Foudray left the existing TOA 900-series amplifiers and contractor-grade ceiling speakers in place and focused the upgrade on replacing the multiplexer.
Because the Ashly ne24.24M processor uses a modular input/output design, Foudray was able to arrange it with the required 16 inputs and five outputs with only a few unused channels left over. He connected each room's dedicated microphones and AV inputs to the unit. "There was abundant processing power to tailor each input according to its intended use," he said.
In addition, the staff can now use an Ashly neWR-5 networkable Cat-5 remote control, located on the walls of each room, to select the input sources and adjust the volume using the up/down keys.
At the main equipment rack, located in the closet of one of the rooms, the Ashly neWR-5 wall panel remote provides local volume and the interface to select any of the myriad room combinations that the staff requested, using a diagram of the configurations with associated preset numbers.
Because both the ne24.24M and the neWR-5 are network-enabled right out of the box, it was easy to integrate the multiple remote controls. "We used a router to collect and distribute the Ethernet connections between the remotes and the processor," said Foudray. "It was fast and easy to arrange."
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