The Antwerp Olympic Stadium renews its sound with Powersoft Quattrocanali

amplification systems Powersoft Quattrocanali 8804 DSP enhances equipment Martin Audio in it Antwerp Olympic Stadium (Belgium), installed by Face Projects.

built in 1920 as the main venue for that year's Summer Olympic Games, he Antwerp Olympic Stadium It is still currently one of the symbols of Belgium and home of the local football team, K.Beerschot VA.

Those responsible for this facility have now renewed the sound system, ya obsoleto, with the help of Belgian audio specialists PFL y Face Projects, with the aim of “improve intelligibility and reproduce high-quality ambient sound”, explains Steven Kemland, responsible for this last company, who has carried out the technical design of the system.

The solution is based on the technology of the Italian manufacturer Powersoft, with the installation of three systems Quattrocanali 8804 DSP in red Dante, that enhance the twenty-five teams CDD15-WE and seventeen of the model CDD10WR of Martin Audio.

The entire system is controlled by a matrix Dynacord, composed of an MXE5 mixing engine and a pair of TPC-1 touch panel controllers, as well as speaker cables Van Damme LSZH.

“With Quattrocanali 8804 we have a lot of power, Integrated DSP and Dante, all in compact format -Kemland emphasizes-, not only in regards to the size of the unit, but also to the necessary current and cooling”.

The system is also used for security support in public address and crowd control applications., thanks to its zoning capabilities through pre-programmed TPC-1 touch screens, that communicate with the processor Dynacord MXE5 Matrix.

Proprietary software was used to adjust the entire system. HarmonyPlus de Powersoft, “with which you have all the parameters you need. In this project it was strange to replace an entire rack of 42 units, full of amplifiers from more than twenty years ago, with only three units and still have the twelve zones in the stadium with a total power of 20.000 W”, Kemland points out..

To ensure the team was prepared for special events, an external connection port has been installed, with a radial engineered interface close to the field to connect analog signals to the Dante network and use the main sound system without problems.