LINCOLN, CA – Thunder Valley Casino Resort, located 30 miles east of Sacramento, offers guests a new spa, outdoor pool and 17-story luxury hotel, which also houses the new 10,000-square-foot Pano Hall venue.
Designed to host concert and comedy productions, corporate meetings, poker tournaments, banquets and many other events, the multipurpose, 1,000-capacity space is equipped with a mobile L-Acoustics amplifier and loudspeaker package supplied by Las Vegas-based Audio Video Design-Build (AVDB) Group.
A total of 12 L-Acoustics KUDO cabinets and eight SB28 subs, powered by eight LA8 amplified controllers, comprise the main PA for Pano Hall.
Eight self-powered 108P cabinets are also available for front-fill, with six 112P for use as side-fills. Onstage, four ARCS and four SB118 subs serve as the side-fill monitoring system, with a dV-SUB enclosure on hand as a drum monitor sub.
Scott Oosthuizen, AVDB Group's CEO and AV system designer, cited KUDO's broad acceptance in the production and touring world as one reason for recommending the system to the client.
Other factors, Oosthuizen said, included the enclosure's adjustable K-Louvers, which allow the system to steer audio away from the parallel surface walls in the ballroom, which he noted as very desirable – fewer primary reflections from the side walls would help the system enhance overall audio intelligibility in the audience seating areas.
"As far as I'm concerned, KUDO is the best-sounding 12-inch-format line array system out there," Oosthuizen added. "It's definitely a very versatile system, and easily meets most rider specifications."
Oosthuizen pointed out that Pano Hall's new setup is billed as fully mobile touring sound system, allowing Thunder Valley to not only set it up in a variety of configurations within the ballroom depending on production needs, but to also deploy it outside or off-site as well.
"Our mission here at Thunder Valley Casino Resort is to provide a truly first-rate experience for our guests and the KUDO system is very much in line with that philosophy," said Doug Elmets, spokesman for the resort. "L-Acoustics' reputation for uncompromising excellence is widely known throughout the live event production community and having this system is helping us attract high-profile artists that might not otherwise perform in a ballroom of this size."
Owned and operated by the United Auburn Indian Community, Thunder Valley Casino Resort first opened in June, 2003. Pano Hall, which officially opened in October 2010 and is named after the Maidu word for "bear," can be split into five breakout rooms: one large ballroom and two smaller ones that can each be further divided into two.
For more information, please visit www.avdb-group.com and www.l-acoustics.com.
