CGI designs the audio system of 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 from JBL Professional and network of Q-SYS to offer the best experience in competitions and concerts.

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

One of the technological elements that foster this unique experience is its new Sound System, Designed and installed by the specialist Clair Global Integration (CGI), configured with JBL Professional on the courts, of networks Q-SYS in the club's spaces, Practice Courts and Locker Rooms; Solutions Neat for each conference room, as well as a cable plant of Transmission and distribution, Systems IPTV of Culm and solutions AVoIP.

In collaboration with the lead designer Aecom and John Turner Construction, CGI has integrated IPTV systems Cisco VisionEdge with media players BrightSign for each suite, club, Office & Broadcast/Media Space.

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

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

Intuit Dome has a Giant video screen in the shape of a halo of Daktronics that hangs in the center over some of the seats in the stadium, which required an innovative sound design to deliver optimal audio coverage, consisting of an inner ring of eight groups to cover the lower area and smaller linear arrangements 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 critical that we didn't inject energy into the back of the LED video screen and that we didn't cause reflections.".

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

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