Allen & Heath in Houston’s Berry Centre upgrade
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Serving the Cypress Fairbanks Integrated School District, as well as the Houston area at large, the Berry Centre hosts 4000 yearly events in its five multi-purpose venues (arena, conference centre, theatre, and two stadiums).
Ford Audio Video Systems provided the Berry Centre’s new AV systems. David Shriver, Ford AV’s Houston Division job centre manager says, “Our big goal in all of this was flexibility because the centre defines ‘multi-use facility’.”
Ford AV installed an Allen & Heath gigaACE network and a second Dante network to supplement the existing Dante network. Together, the three networks allow several of the dLives to be relocated when needed and facilitate resource sharing, recording and live and streaming broadcast from any venue.
The conference centre can be subdivided into as many as 17 separate spaces and Shriver notes, “One of the brilliant things with the dLive is that we could give them the flexibility to run each of these spaces as independent systems from one MixRack using an iPad or a laptop with the dLive Director software.”
Portable dLive surfaces also allow separate FOH and monitor mixing for larger arena events and FOH mixing from an audience location in the theatre. The centre’s ME Personal Mixing System serves performers in the Arena, Theater or other venues as needed.
(Jim Evans)
