Auditoriums

The biggest challenge the team faced was a tight timeline, exacerbated by a lack of existing architectural drawings. The previous audio was inadequate for the room and unreliable. It was absolutely paramount that the audio issues be overcome.

The space itself was an awkward architectural space with many reflective, non-symmetrical surfaces. It’s around 50m from front to back with a stepped ceiling. Some areas have 20-metre high ceilings and there is a combination of concrete, brick and timber surfaces. All of these features lead to intelligibility issues.

The room itself features total seating of 1,231 (including 448 tiered seats and 783 removable auditorium seats).

The main PA system consisted of six hangs: at FOH (Left/Right) are 14 x Martin Audio WPM per side with Left/Right hangs of 4 x SXF115 subwoofers per side and Left/Right delays of 10 x Martin Audio WPM per side.

Front fill consists of 6 x Martin Audio CDD6 below the front lip of the stage and a pair of Martin Audio CDD6 as out fills to cover the outside front corners. 4 x CDD-LIVE 12 were also deployed. Amplifiers/FIR processing consisted of 7 x iKON iK81 advanced 8-channel amplifiers and 2 x iKON iK42 4-channel amps.

Due to the challenging acoustic space, every WPM and SXF115 enclosure was individually powered and processed. The Martin Audio Display Software fine-tuned the frequency response at every listening position.