Club Red's fashionable environment, its excellent cuisine and its premium event seating are complemented by a club-wide, multi-purpose AV system designed and installed by ICOR International Systems of Doral, Florida. Club Red's AV system provides live Panthers play-by-play hockey coverage, six news and sports channels and video playback and sound reinforcement for press conferences, presentations and private meetings in the club's large multi-purpose room. The BB&T Arena also hosts concerts and audio and video from these events may be routed through the club's AV system.
To provide coverage throughout the club's 12,000sq.ft space, ICOR installed 25 large screen video displays, a two-wide by four-tall video wall and 66 Community D5 ceiling loudspeakers. Bill Craig, ICOR vice president, says, "We prefer the Community D Series ceiling speakers for projects like Club Red. They have wide, smooth dispersion, plenty of output power, clear voice for the sports feeds and great musical sound quality for concerts and private events."
Club Red's loudspeakers are powered by QSC amplifiers and a Symetrix DSP provides signal processing and audio mixing. Video sources are routed by a Crestron system and the entire AV system is controlled from a 17-inch Crestron touch-panel display. ICOR also provided an assistive listening system and wireless microphones for press conferences and private presentations.
Club Red is now more than 80-percent sold out and continues to receive rave reviews for its elegant design and ambiance, its four-star cuisine and its exclusive centre-ice seating for sports and concerts. The club's AV system brings the live experience of Panthers hockey and concert events into the club and provides quality audio and video for press conferences and private meetings.
(Jim Evans)
