Jericho horns reinforce Eddie Robinson Stadium
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Thus, the small, historically-black Grambling State University is indebted to Robinson for elevating the school’s exposure and reputation. When the school constructed a new 20,000-seat stadium in 1983, it named the stadium in his honour. Recently, Eddie Robinson Stadium underwent scoreboard and sound system renovations, and a new, powerful, simple Danley Sound Labs Jericho Horn and BC-subwoofer system now puts the emphasis on experience in the game-day experience for Tigers fans.
“The old sound system was antiquated, and – besides that – it had to come out with the old scoreboard that Nevco, of Greenville, Illinois, was replacing,” explained Larry Habetz, owner of A/V integration firm Gulf Coast Production Systems (GCPS) of Rayne, Louisiana. In collaboration with Danley rep Kim Comeaux, GCPS designed and installed the new Danley system for Eddie Robinson Stadium. Based on past successes, Nevco brought GCPS in on the project to handle the sound system integration.
“We’re pretty new to Danley,” Habetz continued, “but we’re also based in Louisiana, home to LSU’s 102,000-seat Tiger Stadium. The Danley system at Tiger Stadium has been a huge success and offers proof of concept for anyone who wonders about Danley’s point-source technology for large stadium applications. For Eddie Robinson Stadium, it was clear that a Danley system would deliver the significant SPLs that Grambling wanted with fidelity and impact.
“Although the line item numbers for Danley boxes make them look pricy, the fact that you need so few boxes and so few amp channels make an entire Danley system extremely competitive. We’re typically hanging just one Danley box for every five to ten boxes of a comparable line array system.”
The 20,000-capacity crowd gets ample coverage and volume from just two Danley J3-94 Jericho Horns, one on either side of the new scoreboard. Each Jericho Horn is powered by a four-channel Danley DNA 20k4 Pro amplifier. The only other components in the entire system are two Danley BC-218 subwoofers mounted together at the top centre of the scoreboard and powered, together, by a single DNA 20k4 Pro amplifier.
(Jim Evans)
