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Electro-Voice Gets into Great Shape with the Fitness Gurus
The aerobics enthusiasts at Shuttlesound are recovering from a mega workout after supplying more than 80 Electro-Voice loudspeakers of every shape and size to the International Fitness Showcase in Blackpool. Occupying every inch of the Winter Gardens, the IFS event is the ultimate collective experience for fitness instructors and enthusiasts, providing three amazing days of dance, aerobics, step, combat, conditioning, lectures, workshops and mind body sessions.
Attended by fitness freaks from all over the world, the event spread into ten separate locations around the conference centre; classes and lectures for audiences of 100 upwards in the smaller rooms, large-scale social events for up to 1000, and mass workouts for up to 1500 people in the Empress Ballroom.
Jason Kelly of Shuttlesound provided technical support for the event. From the smallest roooms using EV Force speakers and subs, going up through the ZX and Plasma ranges, to the 500-plus capacity suites which were using RX and Phoenix loudspeakers, the sheer breadth and versatility of the Electro-Voice sound reinforcement portfolio was fully on display.
In one of the largest of the Winter Gardens’ facilities, the Arena 1 was kitted out with an EV XLD line array system, powered by EV’s P3000 RL amplifiers, all running via IRIS-Net management software. Doubling up as a demonstration theatre, the Arena 1 turned into a discotheque at night, with the capacity for 1000 people. The XLD system was configured with six XLD281 cabinets per side of the stage, and four XS212 subs. The disco complemented the IFS Gala Awards Dinner and Dance, which was held the same night in the 250-capacity Spanish Hall, equipped with an EV ZX Series sound system.
But most impressive of all was the sight of 1500 fitness instructors and students exercising en masse in the famous Empress Ballroom, with the aid of a substantial EV XLC line array sound system. Either side of the stage were four XLC127+ line array cabinets, ground-stacked above two XLC215 subs, with another pair of XSUBs in front of the stage to augment the bass even further. EV Plasma1 and SxA360 powered speakers were used as monitors. Eight of the new Tour Grade Series TG7 amplifiers were used, fitted with RCM26 DSP modules, run via IRIS-Net, EV’s comprehensive software platform to realise transparent network control and supervision.
Jason Kelly of Shuttlesound had the task of babysitting ten sound systems, all of them being used for an application that is famous for delivering poor audio. “Fitness enthusiasts are usually accustomed to hearing systems that distort, CD players that jump about more than they do, and radio mics that drop out. We provided all the instructors in Blackpool with RE2 radio mic systems and RE97 headset mics. This, together with the solidly reliable performance of all the EV loudspeaker systems, has opened the industry’s eyes and ears to the importance of good-quality audio equipment.”
17th May 2007
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