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Sennheiser's New 2000 Series at The FIFA World Club Championship
FIFA's World Club Championship sees the cream of the world's football clubs battle it out for the crown of the best club team in the world. The 2009 championship took place in Abu Dhabi and utilised two of the city's stadia, Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium and the flagship Zayed Sports City Stadium, the latter hosting the final. To accommodate the vast media contingent that follows such a huge event the Zayed Sports City Stadium decided to upgrade some of the facilities and equipment within the media suites, this included the installation of six channels of Sennheiser's new 2000 Series.
Installation and commissioning was taken care of by live sound specialist Trevor Cronin. "From previous experience," he explains, "the transmission range and reliability of Sennheiser's wireless products made this manufacturer my obvious first choice for such a large venue, as I need to get reliable coverage from every corner of the 45,000 seat capacity stadium."
In order to help with the coverage requirement, Mr. Cronin also included two AD-3700 directional antennas in the system.
"The AD-3700s have built-in boosters and can be daisy-chained straight through all the receivers without the need for additional antenna distribution, which is very handy," he continues. "On checking the signal with the WSM software running, we found we had superb reception all over the stadium, even with the antennas located behind the control room glass window!
"I set up a 30-minute test using the sound-check mode; this allowed me to run to all the extremes of stadium with a live microphone transmitter and when I returned to the control room I had a read out of the RF strength throughout the test. This feature means that what is normally a two person job can now be done by one.
"I'm yet to do a firmware upgrade on the transmitters and that will see their output power increase from 50mW to 100mW, but so far I have not needed it."
"The RF spectrum recording tool is also a fantastic utility for use in this stadium environment, with its multitude of broadcast operators using many of the available frequencies. You can quickly see where there is some space for your system and reprogram very simply using the infra-red sync facility."
The supply of the system was undertaken by Sennheiser's UAE distributor Venuetech and included six EM-2050 receivers with two AD-3700 antennas, six SKM-2000 handheld transmitters with 835 capsules and six EK-2000 beltpack transmitters with MKE-1 lapel mics.
"The 2000 Series is ideal for this type of application," says Venuetech's Technical Director, Elie Khairallah. "Not only does the feature set and 90mHz bandwidth ensure that the sound engineer's pre-event checks are easy, but the integrated dataports mean that realtime monitoring and manipulation can be achieved through Sennheiser's ‘Wireless Systems Manager' software from any location within the network."
4th January 2010
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