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Amate Audio SR and EFX installed at Teatre Akademia in Barcelona

A recent infrastructural renovation of Barcelona’s Teatre Akademia fringe theatre, in the city’s Eixample district, included a multimedia upgrade, in order to improve the venue’s technical production capabilities.

Together with new video and lighting systems, an Amate Audio sound installation - comprising loudspeakers, power amplifiers and digital audio processors from the company - provides the venue with both a new front-of-house (FoH) PA and surround sound EFX capabilities. Theatre sound designer Roc Mateu and Amate Audio’s Industrial Designer Guiu Llusá worked together to address the theatre’s specific sound design challenges.

The resultant sound design is effectively two discrete systems, operating together within a matrix sound design; one the FoH dialogue PA, comprising larger full-range cabinets, and the other a wider “boundary” installation, sited around the perimeter of and firing into the room, comprising smaller cabinets providing a dynamic surround sound EFX capability.

To ensure sonic continuity across the FoH and EFX elements, the N12P and S6P models from Amate Audio’s Nítid series were selected. Six of the larger N12P provide the FoH dialogue system, hung in front of and on either side of the stage. Flown high enough to achieve the even coverage throughout the auditorium, they are almost invisible from an audience perspective.

The surround sound EFX component comprises twelve of the smaller S6Ps, configured in three groups: one of four S6Ps covering the front seating rows, and two groups of two S6Ps each for each of the side tiers. Three N18WP subs are assigned to these; one to the front seating group and one each to the two groups on either side. The subs can also be assigned to the FoH system, via the matrix, if required. An additional four “mobile” S6Ps are available to further expand the EFX configuration whenever necessary.

One of the design requirements was the centralization of all amplification and processing. A remotely located machine room was created housing a total of eleven Amate Audio HD 3200 and HD 1200 power amplifiers. These provide a total system power in excess of 25 kW constant program power.

Three Amate Audio LMS 206 and one LMS 608 loudspeaker management DSP processors provide discrete system configuration of the loudspeakers in both FoH and EFX elements. Signal feeds to the processors are from a Midas DL32 stage-box at the control position in the auditorium where an M32 console is connected via Dante, to QLab’s show control automation. This runs the audio matrix and automation, along with the video and lighting control. The entire AVL is operable by a single technician, able to design and run a complete production from the control position.

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