Powersoft drives Galaxy amusement park
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Housed within and occupying a staggering 20,000m2 is Galaxy Amusement Park, one of Europe’s largest theme parks. At such a superlative destination reliability is at a premium. Dependability is the prime driver, and so the uniform and fail-safe sound coverage for the entire amusement park is under the steadfast control of Powersoft Ottocanali power amplifiers, specified and installed by integrator and Powersoft’s Ukraine distributor, MAG Audio.
A consistent audio soundtrack is integral to the amusement ride experience and at Galaxy this is distributed via a network of over 400 loudspeakers, installed at the 20m ceiling height and zoned around the indoor park and its attractions. Driving the audio across the vast space are just four Powersoft Ottocanali 4K4 power amplifiers, ideal for multi-zone locations and well suited to distributed systems.
Igor Sydorenko, MAG Store’s field service engineer, and the Lavina Mall project manager, responsible for project’s design and implementation, said: “In the end, the key factor for winning the deal came down to performance and price. The power capacity and complement of eight channels in the Ottocanali series saw the entire, huge, installation fitted with just four Ottocanali amplifiers. Other amplifier brands just couldn’t compete and integrators had significantly higher prices as they were forced to specify many more amplifier units.
“The tender specifications explicitly stated on-board DSPs and centralised remote control via PC over the entire sound system, so Ottocanali and Armonía were perfectly suited to meet the demands of the project.”
The Kiev Mall is set to attract 100,000-plus customers per day so is aptly named as, translated from Russian, ‘Lavina’, means ‘Avalanche’. Galaxy’s 20 attractions have all been specifically designed for indoor use. Not for the faint-hearted, however, Galaxy is home to Europe’s longest roller coaster which twirls in at a jolting 395m.
With ceiling heights of 20m in addition to its vast overall area, the amusement park’s dimensions presented considerable challenge. Equally, the noise generated by the moving attractions within the space was such that considerable SPL was required to cut through to deliver important messages – and alarms, should the need arise.
The Ottocanali series provides a wide range of functions for tuning, controlling and diagnosing the entire audio system. Fitted with the latest DSP to provide signal processing at new levels of innovation, including flexible routing and mixing via an internal input / output matrix, equalizers, delays and raised-cosine filters, compatibility with the Powersoft Armonía Pro Audio Suite reinforces its reliable control.
(Jim Evans)
