According to Ramon Pérez of RPS Broadcasting, the consultant on audiovisual technologies for the project, initial plans for all-Meyer Sound systems had been sketched before he was contracted as the audiovisual consultant, and he quickly concurred. "I've worked with Meyer systems in the past, and I've been impressed by the excellent size/weight-to-power ratio, the precise directivity, and the phase coherence between cabinets in an array.
"The architects wanted the main arrays hidden inside structures covered with acoustical foam," continues Pérez. "Meyer Sound Spain's design services department found that M'elodies would fit the space. I looked at the predictions in MAPP Online Pro and knew that this approach would work."
The Main Theatre's sound system includes 14 M'elodie line array loudspeakers, four floor-mounted 650-P subwoofers, a centre cluster of eight M1D line array loudspeakers, and eight UPM-1P loudspeakers for front-fill and under-balcony-fill.
In the Theatre Configurable, a free-form performance space, a versatile Meyer Sound solution provides a number of design options for various events and seating arrangements. "We have 32 M1D cabinets available, which can be configured as left-centre-right front arrays if that is desired," notes Pérez, "or they can be broken into as many as eight mini-arrays for placing 360 degrees around the overhead catwalk." Four M1D-Sub subwoofers reinforce the low end, while additional flexibility for music and effects is afforded by free placement of six UPJ-1P VariO and six UPM-1P loudspeakers.
Meyer Sound's Galileo loudspeaker management system is used for drive and processing in both venues. Each control booth has its own pair of HD-1 studio monitors, and each stage is equipped with six UM-1P stage monitors. Final tuning was accomplished with a SIM 3 audio analyser. Installation contractor for both systems was BGL S.L.
(Jim Evans)
