Live soccer relays with DYNACORD and Electro

Live soccer relays with DYNACORD and Electro-Voice
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! All over Germany, fans gathered last month in front of giant screens to
follow the progress of the national soccer team in the Euro 2012
competition
! Both inside and outside the stadiums, equipment from Bosch
Communications Systems set the tone
! At a single fan festival in Dresden, over 12,000 celebrated with
DYNACORD and Electro-Voice
Straubing, July 2012 Last month, all Germany was gripped with football fever.
In addition to record TV ratings, the fans who gathered in vast numbers in front
of giant screens all over the country to watch live relays of its performances
underlined the popularity of the German national team. In arenas, including the
stadiums in Kiev and Lviv where the matches were being contested, as well as
at football parties all over Germany, sound reinforcement from Bosch
Communications Systems provided the competition with superlative acoustic
support – whatever the size of the gathering.
In Dresden, the excitement was delivered in XXL format. Every time trainer
Jogi Löw’s team took to the field, around 12,000 fans of the beautiful game
assembled at the Königsufer on the banks of the Elbe to follow the action. To
get them really geed up, the organizers (the City of Dresden and the company
that produces the city’s film nights) hired the team from Sound Light Event,
Dresden, to provide the sound reinforcement. “There were two major hurdles
here to contend with,” reports Dirk Schiemenz, the managing director of the
Saxon rental company. “One was the size of the area to be covered and the
other the nature of the signal, the TV commentary, itself, in which the level of
background noise is generally extremely high and has to be controlled
carefully.” This commentary, however, infused as it invariably is with
contagious enthusiasm, has an invaluable contribution to make to the overall
experience. For this reason, the level of intelligibility – not only in Dresden but
wherever fans gathered in front of the giant screens – was of decisive
importance. To provide the football-crazy fans in Dresden with optimum
coverage, the team led by Schiemenz opted for DYNACORD COBRA 2
systems to supply near and side fill, two XLVC line arrays from Electro-Voice
with XLE 181 elements flown from the stage roof, and PWH and V17 bass
cabinets from DYNACORD. Amplification was delivered by P3000RL and TG7
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power amplifiers from Electro-Voice as well as LX2200 power amplifiers from
DYNACORD. As stage monitors, SXA360 powered loudspeakers were used.
Digital signal processing was provided by a DSP 244 and the entire system
was controlled and supervised using IRIS-Net software. The lavishness of the
investment was already evident in the run-up to the event, as the entire
installation – including the video wall, cameras and video playback equipment
as well as the sound systems – took three days to set up. “We put our faith in
Electro-Voice and DYNACORD years ago and it’s a decision we have never
once regretted,” affirms Schiemenz. “The positive feedback from the event
organizers further vindicated our choice.”
Johannes Moeck of Badensound is a past master of the giant screen discipline,
this being far from the first time the Renchen-based company has provided
soccer fans following World Cup and Euro action in cities around Germany with
a goose-bump experience. During the final rounds of this year’s tournament in
Poland and Ukraine, Badensound handled the sound reinforcement for two
events: one attended by 10,000 fans in Achern and a second in Offenburg,
where the capacity was 7,000. The greatest challenge in each case, says
Moeck, was to control the level of sound emissions: “In Offenburg, the event
was held in the middle of the city, and in Achern, on the edge of a housing
estate. Our job was to ensure sound pressure levels were high enough in the
areas where the fans had gathered to maximize their enjoyment without
escaping sound infringing local byelaws. We did this by installing line-arrays on
each side of the giant screens and adding decentralized delay lines we could
switch on or off depending upon the number of fans present. The subwoofers
were configured to create cardioid bass arrays with their levels meticulously
controlled in order to achieve a directional coverage pattern even in the low
frequency range. In this way, we were able to ensure that virtually no disturbing
low frequency sound spilled into nearby residential areas.” For these events,
Badensound deployed DYNACORD V17, VM15, D12-3 and CXM15 cabinets
powered by DYNACORD H5000 amps with integrated RCM26 modules. “In my
opinion, they’re the world’s best power amplifiers,” states Moeck. “They offer
you all the remote functionality you could wish for, they’re reliable and, with the
added benefit of the FIR settings provided, deliver top quality sound.” In the
FOH position, a CMS 1600-3 mixer was used.
In the lower Bavarian town of Burghausen, the gathering was somewhat
smaller but the 2,700 fans who did assemble in front of the giant screen were
provided with a memorable experience. Here the event was handled by the
team from MSE Tontechnik led by Johannes Schilling. Like his colleagues,
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Schilling cited “achieving the highest possible level of intelligibility” as the
number one objective of the production. Four Electro-Voice XI1152A/64F
loudspeakers flanked by four Electro-Voice Xsubs powered by MSE TG7
power amplifiers from Electro-Voice delivered the sound on this occasion.
Here, too, throughout the final rounds, as on previous occasions, the response
from fans and organizers alike was “uniformly positive”. “We have never had
any dropouts,” reports Schilling. “The equipment invariably proves reliable,
which is something our customers greatly appreciate.”
At Munich Airport, too, between Terminals 1 and 2, sound systems from
DYNACORD and Electro-Voice relayed the commentary as hundreds of
travellers at a time gathered in front of the giant screens to find out how the
competition was progressing. Magic Event- und Medientechnik of Olching were
responsible for this production and relied on an XLVC line array from ElectroVoice, comprising eight XLD281 elements per side, Xsubs, and both TG5 and
TG7 power amplifiers.
To obviate the risk of bad weather spoiling the fun, the authorities in Straubing
had moved the giant screens indoors to the local trade fair centre, which has a
capacity of 3,000 visitors. Despite the problematic acoustics in many parts of
this venue, Michael Wittenzellner, the managing director of StereoMike
Veranstaltungstechnik, was able to achieve a high level of intelligibility by using
two DYNACORD COBRA Tops and DYNACORD COBRA Far elements placed
on either side of the screen and three delay lines composed of CXM15
cabinets.
Equipment list (extract):
Dresden:
12 x DYNACORD COBRA 2
12 x Electro-Voice XLE 181
12 x DYNACORD PWH 18"
4 x DYNACORD V17
4 x Electro-Voice P3000RL
3 x DYNACORD LX 2200
2 x Electro-Voice SxA360
2 x Electro-Voice TG7
1 x DYNACORD DSP 244
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Achern/Offenburg:
32 x Electro-Voice XLE
16 x DYNACORD V17
16 x DYNACORD VM15
12 x DYNACORD H5000 with integrated RCM26 modules
4 x DYNACORD D12-3
4 x DYNACORD CXM 15
2 x DYNACORD CMS 1600-3
Burghausen:
4 x Electro-Voice XI1152A/64F
4 x Electro-Voice Xsub
4 x Electro-Voice TG-7
Straubing:
9 x DYNACORD CXM 15
8 x DYNACORD LX2200
4 x DYNACORD COBRA-Top
2 x DYNACORD COBRA-Far
2 x DYNACORD DSP 244
2 x Electro-Voice ZX5
1 x Electro-Voice N8000
Munich Airport:
16 x Electro-Voice XLD 281
8 x Electro-Voice TG5
4 x Electro-Voice Xsub
2 x Electro-Voice TG7
For more information, visit
www.dynacord.com
www.electrovoice.com
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Masterly acoustics: systems from DYNACORD and Electro-Voice at soccer
parties in Dresden ....
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... and Achern created the perfect atmosphere in which to watch the games
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Whether crowds were large, like the 7,000 gathered in front of the giant screen
in Offenburg ...
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... or small, as at this event in Burghausen with 2,700 spectators – it was
DYNACORD and Electro-Voice sound reinforcement systems that set the tone
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Since the company was founded in 1945, DYNACORD has continued to be one of the leading
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