St Brigids Catholic School chooses Yamaha
Published: ASIA
AUSTRALIA: St Brigid’s Catholic School in Evanston has benefitted from a recent Yamaha Installation series in its dual-use MacKillop Arts Theatre/Samaritan Sports Stadium. The new theatre/stadium is part of the Australian government’s ‘building the education revolution’ funding programme, and will accommodate everything from sports events to school musicals.
With $3 million to spend (courtesy of BER funding), the school’s deputy principal Genarro Manella turned to audio visual consultant Nivven Barlow, local Yamaha dealer Peter Koch at Barossa Music Centre, and Yamaha Commercial Audio to provide a facility with ‘quality audio and lighting: a good space for kids to do their sport, but equally a facility for the performing arts.’
Mr Barlow’s A/V design included a digital multicore system, a 64-channel LS9 digital mixer and fully automatable, ethernet-controlled DSP processing. An LS9-32 digital mixer sits at the heart of the system in the bio-box at the rear of the hall. This is tied via a single Cat5 cable to two SB168-ES digital stageboxes in racks at either side of the stage. Outputs from the desk stay in the digital domain, travelling down the same Cat5 to the DME8o-ES open-architecture DSP processor, which handles all FOH speaker processing, in addition to matrix mixing to the hearing loop.
Meanwhile, a variety of Tn and XP series power amps run left/right FOH arrays of two IF2115/64 Installation series speakers per side, combined with two dual 18-inch subwoofers, with two IF2108 speakers arrayed as a centre cluster. Additionally, foldback is handled by two IF2208 Installation series dual eight-inch wedges mixed with a range of Club series speakers, powered by XP Series amplifiers.
After its first main show in August, the system is said to have ‘passed with flying colours.’ ‘With the audio and lighting that’s gone in, this now is not only good for our school and the local Catholic High School, but it’s also open to the community as well,’ said Mr Manella.
Describing Yamaha as ‘absolutely wonderful’ to work with, Mr Manella gave particular thanks to local agent, Mr Koch, who the school worked with to acquire all the equipment. ‘What’s most impressive is the way the system has come together and has provided us with an outstanding venue,’ he concluded.