The theatre was looking for a dynamic and highly precise sound system that would be applicable for a wide variety of shows. They approached JBL’s Polish distributor Polsound, with whom they have worked previously and arranged for a demonstration of the system. Impressed by what they heard, the technical team gave the go ahead for the design, supply and installation of the EVO/JBL system which was overseen by Polsound’s Wojciech Puczynski & Pawel Danikiewicz.
Four EVOi.324 speakers are used for the main auditorium left and right arrays. They are joined by two JBL Marquis Series MS28s for centre fills in the front rows of the stalls. Two low-profile JBL Array 4893A sub-woofers are rigged above the centre fills. This slightly unorthodox position was chosen because of limited options for placement. However it works extremely well for sound effects, blasting additional low end energies out over the stalls.
Four channels of surround sound throughout the curved auditorium are pumped out by an additional ten MS28s, making a total of seven discreet channels of sound, plus a low frequency subwoofer channel in the venue. All signals are routed through a Crown USM810 digital matrix mixer (now the BSS PSS8810), which takes care of all dynamics processing, delays, crossovers etc. The system uses a joystick for the surround panning through a Yamaha 03D digital desk.
Polsound has been a JBL distributor for over 10 years and has supplied JBL products into many diverse applications. Recently they supplied CRAFTMAN and GMB Pro Sound, two leading Polish rental companies with a total of 32 boxes of the VerTec VT4889 line array system. The two companies agreed to make their systems compatible thus creating currently one of the largest VerTec systems in Europe. The company also recently supplied the Philharmonic Theatre in Bialystok with two EVOi.324 speakers for general augmentation, together with a number of JBL Control 28 speakers for fills.
(Ruth Rossington)
