National Club in Toronto Updated with Iconyx Gear

TORONTO – Fourteen-inch-thick plaster walls posted a dual challenge for Westbury National Show Systems, Ltd.’s Brock McGinnis, who was tasked with updating the sound system at Toronto’s National Club: Along with the inability to run cable through the historically-significant walls, “it’s very much like having dinner in the middle of a cathedral,” McGinnis noted, of the reverberant acoustics within the 200-capacity, 1,950-square-foot Main Dining Room. McGinnis chose a pair of Iconyx IC8-R columns to meet the acoustic and aesthetic requirements of the installation.

MERRILLVILLE, IN — Brian Wynn of Broadway Music used JBL VerTec line arrays to update the sound system at the 3,400-seat Star Plaza Theatre. The setup includes left-right arrays of eight VerTec VT4888DP-DA midsize powered line array elements each, with a center array of three VRX932LAP powered Constant Curvature loudspeakers. The installation also includes VT4880ADP-DA powered full-size arrayable subwoofers, hung three per side above the stage.

TACOMA, WA — Systems integration firm Electrocom equipped Tacoma’s Stadium High School and Lincoln High School with a combination of narrow-dispersion loudspeakers at multiple points and wireless amplifier solutions using Technomad gear, bypassing the need to cut into concrete and also addressing noise complaints from nearby residential areas.

PHILADELPHIA — The interior spaces and acoustic requirements for the different rooms within the 10,000-square-foot Rumor nightclub differed greatly, but Aurora Sound and Light Design was able to find gear from Harman’s JBL offerings to suit the needs of the different spaces.

RICHMOND, VA — Soundworks of Virginia has owned and operated Turbosound loudspeaker systems since the company’s early days, when company founder and president Steve Payne drove away from a speaker demo in Philadelphia with four TMS-4s in the van. Payne has been a Turbosound customer ever since.

MIAMI GARDENS, FL — Located just a half-mile from the main “antenna farm” of transmitters for Miami’s TV stations, Sun Life Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins, served as a fitting beta-test proving ground for Shure’s Axient wireless system. Bryan Lykins, the team’s recently-hired director of broadcast operations, credited the Axient system for offering “what we need: a scalable, innovative and state of the art technology.”

LOS ANGELES — For the American Music Awards (AMA), which featured more than a dozen live performances at Nokia Theatre LA Live, ATK Audiotek brought in an audio system that included 70 VerTec VT4889 fullsize line array loudspeakers, 15 VT4887 compact line array loudspeakers and five VRX932LA Constant Curvature loudspeakers. They were used for the live broadcast in conjunction with more than a dozen JBL VT4880A fullsize arrayable subwoofers that were already installed in venue.