WASHINGTON — For a major corporate theater event hosted by PETCO, a specialty retailer of premium pet food, supplies and services with over 850 stores in 49 states and the District of Columbia, Poway, Calif.-based ShowTec deployed a TrueLIne line array system from WorxAudio Technologies.
The PETCO Annual Leadership Summit took place at the Gaylord Resort and Convention Center National Harbor near Washington, D.C. With approximately 1,740 people in attendance, the ShowTec team had to address a number of challenges, as Peter Carpentier, ShowTec’s chief audio engineer explains: “All of the wall and ceiling surfaces in the ballroom where this event took place were very hard and reflective,” notes Carpentier. “The room itself was approximately 280 feet long by 175 feet wide and the actual coverage area measured 200 feet by 130 feet. The set was 120 feet wide and extended from the floor right up to the ceiling with projected video images from our Catalyst video server. These circumstances forced our main PA system very wide, with the two loudspeaker clusters 60 feet off center.”
Under Carpentier’s supervision, the ShowTec crew flew six WorxAudio TLV8T-P self-powered line array modules plus a single TLV8TDF-P self-powered down fill element per side. “These two clusters were flown with a trim height of 26 feet,” said Carpentier. “With a distance of 120 feet between the two arrays, I must admit that I was concerned about adequate coverage in the middle. To address this, I hung a center cluster of small trap boxes to fill in the middle but ended up not using them because the coverage and imaging of the WorxAudio line array system was so impressive.”
In addition to providing speech reinforcement and audio for video playback during the PETCO event, the system was also used to handle an ambitious music program. Musical entertainment was provided by The Original Voices of Rock n’ Roll, which included Jimi Jamison of Survivor, Bobby Kimball of Toto, Skip Martin of The Dazz Band and Kool and the Gang, along with Mickey Thomas and Starship as the backing band. According to Carpentier, “The WorxAudio TLV8’s bridged both worlds flawlessly.”
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