L-Acoustics K3 Speakers Make Debut at Vermont Hollywood

RAT Sound has installed the first speaker system L-Acoustics Permanent K3 in North America. Vermont Hollywood It has eight flown K3s, four Kiva IIs at the edge of the stage and six KS28 subwoofers under it.

Known as Campus Theater when it opened in 1939, The former movie theater on the bustling corner of North Vermont Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard has undergone a metamorphosis by its current owners., MCAP Partners. Vermont Hollywood has set the goal of becoming “the gold standard for the ultimate concert and event attending experience in Los Angeles and around the world”. One of the keys to achieving that goal is the distinction of owning the first speaker system L-Acoustics K3 from North America, suministrado e instalado por su proveedor certificado RAT Sound Systems.

“At the heart of our vision and aspiration to become a global gold standard for concerts and events, is a state-of-the-art entertainment infrastructure that starts with our K3 system”, explica Jacques Massachi, co-founder and managing partner of MCAP Partners.

With capacity to accommodate up to 1.200 personas, the multi-purpose live performance venue 3.352 square meters, designed by Ryder Design & Architecture, based in Santa Monica, It has a main room 17 meters wide by 23 meters deep with a balcony 9 meters deep, which initially led RAT Sound to consider a system K2 o Kara from L-Acoustics for the project.

“In our first Soundvision models, the K2 exceeded our system needs for space, so we switched to Kara, that we knew would work well”, remember Adam Figueroa, Director of Systems Integration at RAT Sound. “Wanting more low frequency support in the air, we match 10 Kara per side with four SB18 flown behind each array, but it was not ideal for video lines of sight”.

When the arrival of the K3 from L-Acoustics became known, they decided that it was what they needed. “It gave us the compact, full-range system we wanted without having to blow up any subwoofers., and the system did not require any change in amplification. The K3 was a triumph in every way, as it required minimal redesign”, adds Figueroa.

Now, The Vermont Hollywood speaker system features eight flown K3s per side for the main speakers., four Nice II spread around the edge of the stage for front fill and six subwoofers KS28 placed under the stage.

The left and right side fills, each of them composed of a A15 Focus about a A15 Wide, They are complemented on stage with an X12 monitor package, while the enclosures X4i y 5XT Short-range cameras are located in the lobby area for additional coverage.

Driven by amplified controllers LA12X, The entire system is connected via AVB with an AES return from an L-Acoustics processor P1 at the entrance.

A system has also been installed LLC Q-SYS to control the main public address and distributed audio system processing, and a mixing console DiGiCo SD12 in the FOH mixing position of the venue.