Ashly Audio enhances New York high school
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To ensure its facilities meet the community's varied needs, the Pine Planes Central School District recently upgraded its AV capabilities utilising a core of Ashly Audio amplification and control solutions.
"When you have a space that is truly the preeminent meeting and performance hall for a community, your primary concerns need to be that the system works well and is extremely intuitive to control," said Thomas DePace of Advance Sound Company – the firm that integrated the new system. "What we found in Ashly Audio was a system that confidently checks those boxes and brings with it a ton of flexibility."
In total, DePace integrated an Ashly NE24.24M with a Protea DSP Audio Matrix Processor providing 12 inputs and 12 outputs, an Ashly NE24.24M with a Protea DSP Audio Matrix Processor with four inputs and four outputs, an Ashly NXE1.52 Network Power Amplifier providing 2 x 1,500 Watts @2 Ohms, an Ashly NXE8004 Network Power Amplifier delivering 4 x 800 Watts @2 Ohms and an Ashly NE8800MM Network Enabled Protea DSP offering eight inputs and eight outputs with two 4-channel Mic Cards.
"We're using that full array of Ashly amplification to power multiple Danley speakers throughout the facility," DePace said. "Everything from larger speakers across the main auditorium to monitors and stage fills. The Ashly setup also has a very nice way in which it allows for mixing the system. The NE8800MM, for example, is providing all of the auto-mixing. It's a decent amount of gear, and yet it's all tied together with the perfect control: the Ashly FR-8."
The FR-8 is one component in Ashly's line of control offerings that looks to streamline control for those who don't have a background in live production. The FR-8 is an Ethernet device that provides fader-based remote-level control for NE products with DSP capabilities.
"We were able to set it up so perfectly that I have no doubt that when the principal or custodian need to use the system it will be very easy for them to do so," DePace said. "When your customer is a small or medium-sized organisation, having that confidence is a huge benefit."
The system DePace integrated also highlights Ashly's interoperability. Components from Crestron, Christie, Panasonic, Allen & Heath, Sennheiser, and Danley also run throughout the integration.
