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JBL
VERTEC HELPS QUEEN ELIZABETH CELEBRATE
50 YEARS OF REIGN
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ONTARIO,
CANADA – OCTOBER 10, 2002 – In celebration of her
Golden Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth visited Hamilton, Ontario in Canada
on October 10th, where she addressed a crowd of 17,000 at Copps
Coliseum. Because quality, trouble-free audio was essential, Toronto’s
PA Plus Production used their JBL VERTEC™ system flown in
four arrays of four VT4889 cabinets.
With PA Plus Senior
Engineer John Lacina at the FOH controls, pre-show entertainment
included several live bands, live vocal-to-track artists, and
various other acts. The welcome celebration featured a military
ceremony, involving pipe and drum corps and marching bands. Even
though musical acts performed, the main focus of the sound system
was to provide intelligible speech reproduction, according to
Mark Radu, Systems Engineer for PA Plus.
The Golden Jubilee
event proved a challenge in system design. Inventive thinking
was required to achieve articulate speech reproduction for Her
Majesty with a line array shooting directly over her head (and
the podium mics) to the first row of seats 15 feet behind her.
In addition, there would be no soundcheck for the Queen. PA Plus
was able to determine that the Queen’s mouth is 52 inches
off of the ground, she’d be wearing one-inch heels and had
a four-inch brim on her hat. According to Mark Radu, “Off
the cuff, it may sound odd, but this information did allow us
to set the podium mics at the optimum height, allowing us as much
gain before feedback as possible.”
The 16 VERTEC
VT4889 cabinets performed perfectly. “The array focus allowed
us to cover the seating area behind the Queen without having to
sacrifice EQ to compensate gain before feedback caused by close
proximity of the array,” said Radu. “The more we use
the VERTEC array, the more it earns our confidence.”
Press
Release PDF File
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