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Long Gang Cultural and Arts Centre installs TiMax ImageMaker Matrix
In 2004 the city of Shenzhen in the Guangdong province of P.R. China began to implement a strategy they described as "building a culture-based city" to make it a centre of high-quality culture. The arts industry boomed in that year, accounting for nearly five percent of the city's total GDP, a growth of more than twenty percent compared with 2003.
In further support of this major cultural initiative, the LongGang Cultural and Arts Centre, located in the city’s LongGang district, has recently undergone a major refurbishment of its audio system to provide world-class sound reinforcement facilities for the Centre’s extensive theatrical and music entertainment programme.
The main sound contractor Artco Music Co worked jointly with Jolly Pro Audio’s Andy Leung to specify a system comprised of PAS speakers, Yamaha console and a TiMax ImageMaker16 audio imaging system. The console feeds multiple microphone groups and sound effects components to the eight inputs of the TiMax delay matrix processor, which then routes them via its sixteen outputs to the multi-channel proscenium sound system and distributed surround sound elements.
The venue’s principal sound engineers He Rui, Li JianDan and Kinson Tang then use the TiMax PC-based software to assign voices and instruments to pre-programmed delay-based “Image Definitions” which provide precise localisations focussed to various positions on stage. This ensures that the sound reinforcement accurately represents the performers’ stage locations and movements to enhance realism and intelligibility for all audience members.
The TiMax software also allows the engineers to create immersive and enveloping surround sound effect mixes and dynamic pans over a wide sweet-spot covering the whole audience area. The TiMax showcontrol resources allow these effects to be either triggered manually or from MIDI, RS232 and SMPTE timecode.
15th December 2005
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