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CASE STUDY: Pittsburgh State University, Kansas

The John Lance Arena at Pittsburgh State University (PSU) in Kansas, home to the Pitt State Gorillas basketball team, recently renovated its 6,500-seat capacity arena, with new wall-to-wall maple hardwood floor covering the main court and two practice courts, new seating, new shooting standards, and a VUE Audiotechnik sound system designed and installed by Reliant Media Systems. The new sound system consists of four arrays and two zones of fill speakers. The two arrays that face the north and south sides of the arena each are made up of four VUE al-4 subcompact line array systems and one al-4SB flying subwoofer system. Each of the two arrays facing the east and west ends of the arena are comprised of six al-4s and one al-4SB. Eight VUE i-8 compact full range foreground systems set up in two zones serve as the fill speakers. “PSU’s athletic department was very interested in VUE after listening to it,” says Zach Aaron, CEO, Reliant Media. “We were able to explain to them the difference between a line array and a typical distributed system, and the pros and cons. They were very much onboard with the line array approach, and VUE offers products that allowed us to take advantage of the size and weight constraints while providing superior fidelity.”

The challenge, explains Jeff Taylor, VP Americas, VUE Audiotechnik, was creating a system to serve a long, multipurpose room.

“A situation like a graduation — where you have a thousand or more folding seats on the floor, plus people in the bleachers — requires very different sound reinforcement from that of a basketball or a volleyball game,” he says. “Instead of renting a PA system for commencements or creating a complex dual-system solution where there are really two separate systems, this VUE rig allows the flexibility to position the basketball arena-style system for coverage of the floor seating as well. The i-8s cover the basketball court itself. So depending on whether they are in the arena configuration or the commencement configuration, the speakers are realigned (time-aligned) to provide voice reinforcement to the floor seating, and the arrays turn to the bleachers as they always did.”

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