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C Series The Choice For Spain’s New Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes
Featuring an auditorium, a conservatory, and an experimental theatre in the one venue – powered by more than 30 Lab.gruppen C Series amplifiers - the new Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes, located in Valladolid, Spain is being heralded as one of the most significant performing arts centres in Spain. The total audience capacity is in excess of 3000 across the three diverse spaces with the experimental theatre being multi-configurable to allow a wide variety of performance styles.
Chemtrol, a leading Spanish audiovisual design and contracting company, created and installed the audio system. Chemtrol División Teatro (theatre division) has vast experience with prestige installations of this type. Since 1987 they have been involved in projects such as the Palacio de las Artes, Valencia, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Teatro Real de Madrid, Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao and numerous other top level venues.
Fernando García Carrión, manager of audiovisual systems of Chemtrol División Teatro, was in charge of the design and installation and his expressed intention from the outset was to maximize performance through the choice of only tried and tested brands. For the audio system he selected products from leading manufacturers including EAW, Lab.gruppen and Dolby Lake, all supplied by their Spanish distributor PRO3 & CO. who collaborated throughout with technical support, so necessary in installations of this magnitude.
”I’ve known and trusted these audio products for years,” says Fernando. “With the complexity of modern A/V designs it’s essential to me to know that what you read in the specs is what you’ll get in reality, time after time. A multipurpose venue like this requires flexibility and one of the key reasons I chose the Lab.gruppen C Series was their Voltage Peak Limiter feature that allows tailoring of output to exactly match the load. And the NomadLink network was easy to install, fast to configure and provides vital performance data and sequential turn on. All are great assets to the system’s performance.”
The main loudspeaker systems are EAW, and comprise of KF 730 line arrays with 18 units being used in the auditorium and 18 in the experimental theatre. Power for the 730’s is Lab.gruppen C Series throughout. All Lab.gruppen amplifiers are controlled and monitored remotely via the proprietary NomadLink network and DeviceControl software. Audio distribution for the entire venue was achieved with NetCIRA by Fostex, which allows the provision of real-time multi-channel audio over Ethernet.
Dolby Lake LP4D12 (4 x 12) Processors are installed in the auditorium and the experimental theatre. The Dolby Lake Processor’s revolutionary digital loudspeaker and equalization technology, allows simple control, monitoring and management of the loudspeaker systems while simultaneously maximizing the sound quality. In the conservatory Chemtrol provided a Dolby Lake MESA EQ (4 x 4).
3rd July 2007
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