CGI designs the audio system for the Intuit Dome stadium with JBL Pro and Q-SYS

This innovative American basketball stadium features a complex audio installation, designed and integrated by Clair Global Integration (CGI) with sound systems JBL Professional and network Q-SYS to offer the best experience in competitions and concerts.

Headquarters of the LA Clippers, the new basketball stadium Intuit Dome, with capacity for 18.000 personas, It is one of the most technologically advanced for fans to enjoy gaming action, as well as to host concerts and live events from anywhere in the venue.

One of the technological elements that promote this unique experience is its new sound system, designed and installed by specialist Clair Global Integration (CGI), configured with equipment JBL Professional on the courts, of networks Q-SYS in the club spaces, practice fields and locker rooms; solutions Neat for each conference room, as well as a cable plant transmission and distribution, systems IPTV of Cisco and solutions AVoIP.

In collaboration with the main designer Aecom y John Turner Construction, CGI has integrated IPTV systems Cisco VisionEdge with media players BrightSign for each suite, club, office and broadcast/media space.

The control of the screens uses Q-SYS control motors and locations with tactile visual equipment employ Wipro VisionEdge-Go. In addition, they have deployed speakers VTX A12 in the center and VTX A8 on JBL Professional external delays, as well as the large format model PD500 for top delay fills.

“We are a creative engineering company that offers solutions that go beyond audio and video,” he explains. Demetrius Palavos, vp. CGI-sports integration. Together with the Led Storm panels, we create our own backend software that interacts with Q-SYS. In each suite and club space we have an ADA panel that connects with another touch panel from this manufacturer, allowing anyone with a visual impairment to control the sound and televisions in that area.”.

Intuit Dome has a giant halo-shaped video screen of Daktronics hanging in the center over some of the stadium seats, which required innovative sound design to deliver optimal audio coverage, consisting of an inner ring of eight groups to cover the lower area and smaller linear arrays for the outer edge of the halo.

For this complex project, “We work with the audiovisual consultant and technical designer Greg Swindle, of WJHW, in the general configuration of the group and in the precise angles of the boxes -Palavos points out-. It was essential that we did not inject energy into the back of the LED video screen and that we did not cause reflections”.

In this sense, Palavos remembers that for Bruno Mars concerts, coinciding with the inauguration of the stadium, The fixed speakers were reinforced with a touring system from the K series and amplifiers L-Acoustics, supplied by CGI.