Jericho Horns reinforce Bobby Lackey Stadium
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Today, the stadium seats over 13,400 spectators in a classic home/visitor arrangement, and it is regularly filled to capacity for Weslaco Panther home games. The school district recently hired A/V integration firm Hermes Music (Pharr, Texas) to design and install a new Danley sound reinforcement system.
With two Danley J3-94 Jericho Horns, two Danley BC-218 subwoofers, and three Danley DNA 20k4 Pro multi-channel, DSP-enabled amplifiers, Bobby Lackey Stadium is now a model of how high schools can achieve affordable, high-fidelity, high-SPL audio.
“They take football very seriously in Weslaco,” said Ed Zamorano, director of educational/governmental sales at Hermes Music. “All of the Weslaco Panther home games begin with an hour of pregame interviews and discussion – like an ESPN type production – that are shown on the scoreboard and amplified through the sound reinforcement system. The games wrap up with another 30 minutes of postgame interviews and discussion.”
Weslaco arrived at its new Danley system through an unusual mix of demos, recommendations, and system failures. “The school was planning a new scoreboard, but they already knew that they didn’t want the stock sound system that would come with that scoreboard,” explained Zamorano.
“They had already heard it at another area school and felt it was too weak. Because they were in discussions with us and because we were recommending Danley Jericho Horns, the school sent its audio techs to a demo we arranged with Danley’s help at another area football field. The techs loved it and recommended a Danley system for Bobby Lackey Stadium. We also used Danley Direct modeling software to demonstrate the coverage we could get with just two Danley Jericho Horns.”
Two Danley J3-94 Jericho Horns affixed to either side of the existing scoreboard cover the home and visitor sides, and two directional Danley BC-218 subwoofers vertically stacked beneath the scoreboard fill out the low end.
A new Midas m32r digital console serves as the user interface and sends signal to three Danley DNA 20k4 Pro amplifiers via Dante. Each DNA 20k4 Pro has four 5000W amplifier channels, allowing two units to drive the two Jericho Horns (each Jericho Horn requires four amplifier channels). The third amplifier powers the BC subwoofers.
(Jim Evans)
