During the Center's design phase, it was decided that great sound was a crucial ingredient, both for enhanced enjoyment of the park and to assure clear, intelligible announcements for security and emergency purposes: the ZonePRO 640 is now providing highly discrete zoned audio throughout the new centre in a compact, easy-to-program and cost-effective system, say dbx.
The $22 million Ventura Aquatic Center is a state-of-the-art facility that offers users of all ages and skill levels the best in water sports. The Center features a 1.5-mile walking trail perimeter, large grassy malls, two 25ft water slides, a Children's area with two wading pools as well as a 50m Olympic-level competition swimming pool complete with scoreboard.
"This was a challenging project," comments Lara Barrett, designer for Muzicraft, a systems design/install company with four offices in Southern California and the installation contractor on this project. "The sound had to be very clear and intelligible everywhere in the park, and the entire park needed to be divided into four distinct audio zones, each with its own music systems. However, the entire system had to be tied together for crucial uses such as paging and emergency and security announcements. It was a complex design and installation."
The audio system also includes JBL Professional Control 30 speakers and Crown CH Series amplifiers. "Every one of the requirements we had to meet for the project in terms of zoned audio was met by the ZonePRO," says Steve Grider, technical specialist at Sound Marketing West, which partnered with Muzicraft on the design and installation effort and provided programming and fine-tuning services. "The system also had to be easy to operate by a variety of park personnel with no audio technology training. Furthermore, it had to be flexible, to allow for changes to the system down the road. The ZonePRO delivered on all of that."
(Lee Baldock)
