Bose sound opens new possibilities at the Performing Arts Center

Modernization of a new sound system, based on RoomMatch solution, has allowed the Arcadia Highschool facilities to be used as a venue for presentations and a teaching place.

He Performing Arts Center de Arcadia Highschool in California (USA) It is home to many of the district's school arts programs. It has the capacity to 1,150 people and was inaugurated in 2012. Since then, Proceeds from ticket sales and other donations benefit your benefit., as well as for education and artistic programming in the community.

What the place didn't have, however, It was a sound system that lived up to its aesthetic qualities., artistic and theatrical. Since last January the place has had a RoomMatch system of Bose Professional.

The system consists of three linear arrangements of RoomMatch modules, chosen based on the specific acoustic needs of the venue; Powered by PowerMatch PM8500N amplifiers, which are controlled through a ControlSpace ESP-880 digital processor.

Local AV Installation Company Sunset Audio Visual (SAV) has been in charge of the assembly of the system.

“We had some significant acoustic difficulties. As the quality of the presentations increased and we made improvements, the sound also needed renovation. It is a long, rectangular room., so it has a lot of sound bounces and a lot of echo, which results in an imprecise sound with a lack of articulation”, explains Keith De Luca, director of the Performing Arts Center and instructor of StageCraften.

According to Stan Kojder, owner of Sunset Audio Visual, his company had done other projects for the school before, But the renovation at Arcadia Highschool's Performing Arts Center is the biggest yet. In addition to mechanical and electrical engineering work, SAV analyzed the acoustics of the theater to determine which RoomMatch modules would best suit their needs and where they should be placed.

“Speakers suspended from the ceiling would be placed quite far apart around the proscenium, but one side would have been close to a wall, so the option of RoomMatch asymmetric modules made the system optimized for the acoustics of this space”, says Kodjer..

He adds that the RoomMatch system was such a perfect solution that, the U-shaped mezzanine, whose seats were rarely used because of the inconsistent and unintelligible sound., Now it is a privileged area.

“RoomMatch looks great and sounds even better, It is a diametric difference to what there was before. The sound reaches any seat great, even in the front row, in front of the stage, the RoomMatch arrangement is capable of covering it”.

De Luca notes that there is now virtually no difference in volume between any pair of seats in the venue.. “Since the new system has been installed, we have done many conferences, a show with a choir, a beauty pageant and we're in the middle of producing Les Miserables right now. The RoomMatch system has opened the door to all the possibilities as a venue for presentations and as a teaching place”.