Billed
as “The Nation’s most spectacular college soccer facility,” Dr. Mark
and Cindy Lynn Stadium at the University of Louisville features seating
for more than 5,300 soccer fans, a 15,500 square-foot training center, a
large video scoreboard and an audio system with Community R SERIES and
W SERIES loudspeakers.
Designed by consultant Tom Lorenzen of dBA Acoustics in Louisville,
the audio system provides clear announcements and high-fidelity music to
fans in four separate seating areas and to players and officials on the
field.
Lorenzen said the university’s goals were excellent audio with even
coverage throughout the various seating areas and on the field. To meet
these goals, he used a combination of designs. Fourteen Community W
SERIES WX-?1594 loudspeakers, distributed along the underside of the
canopy, provide sound for the stadium’s 2,300-seat covered grandstand.
Eight R SERIES R2-?474 and four R2-?77 loudspeakers, installed on
lighting poles and on the video scoreboard, provide sound for the field,
the end-zone bleachers and the stadium’s two grassy berms. Three R.5-99
loudspeakers, also mounted on the scoreboard, cover part of the east
berm seating and a pair of Community D SERIES DS8 surface-mount
loudspeakers with a separate amplifier provide an independent sound
system serving a patio garden near the concessions area.
The loudspeakers are powered by Lab Gruppen amplifiers and a Biamp
Audia-Flex DSP provides equalization and delay to assure consistent
sound arrivals throughout the stadium. The press booth includes a Shure
announce microphone and an Allen & Heath mixer and Shure wireless
microphones are used on the field.
Bland Technologies of Louisville installed the system adding a custom
touch screen user interface to control the various speaker zones and
presets. The project was completed in time for standing-room-only crowds
to witness the Louisville Cardinal’s opening game soccer victories in
their 2014-2015 season.