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MAIN REINFORCEMENT & SFX SYSTEM
BSS "BLU-80" Signal Processor (3)
BSS, "BLU-32" Signal Processor I/O Expander (4)
Drawmer "M-Clock" Master Clock Generator (1)
Echo "Audio Fire 12" Firewire Audio Recording Interface (1)
Edirol "UA-1000" Hi-Speed USB 2 Audio Interface (1)
Lexicon "PCM-91" Digital Reverb Effects Processor (2)
Marantz "CDR510" Dual Bay CD Recorder/Player (1)
Marantz "PMD-371" 5-Disc Carousel CD Changer (2)
Meyer "CQ-1" Self-Powered Wide Coverage Main Loudspeaker (1)
Meyer "CQ-2" Self-Powered Narrow Coverage Main Loudspeaker (2)
Meyer "MM-4" Miniature Wide-Range Loudspeaker (112)
Meyer "MSL-4" Self-powered Horn Loaded Long Throw Loudspeaker (2)
Meyer "PSW-2" Self-Powered Subwoofer (4)
Meyer "UM-1P" Self-Powered Stage Monitor (4)
Meyer "UPA-1P" Self-Powered Compact Wide Coverage Loudspeaker (3)
Meyer "UPM-1P" Self-Powered Ultra-Compact Wide Coverage Loudspeaker (6)
Meyer "UPJ-1P" Self-powered Compact VariO Loudspeaker (14)
Neuman "KM184MT" Cardioid Condenser Microphone (2)
QSC "CX168" Power Amplifier (16)
Sennheiser "EM550G2" Dual Channel True Diversity Receiver (2)
Sennheiser "MKH40" Cardioid Condenser Microphone (3)
Sennheiser "MKH416" Short Shotgun Condenser Microphone (2)
Sennheiser "SKM535G2" Wireless Handheld Dynamic Cardioid Microphone (2)
Sennheiser "SZI 1029" High Power Infrared Emitter (6)
Sennheiser "SI1015" Wideband Modulator (1)
Tannoy "System 800" Nearfield Monitor Loudspeaker (2)
Yamaha "DM-2000v2" Digital Mixing Console (1)

wanted to give the Canadian Opera Company the facility to do sound design on a production by production basis."
The performance sound system is augmented
by a point-to-point distributed base-band video system. A high-resolution Panasonic video camera on
the balcony railing of the box level (first level above
the orchestra) provides what Clark calls the pictureframe shot. "The video is near-broadcast quality, better than standard definition NTSC. That image gets
distributed in the analog domain to performancecritical locations-performers, stage management,
lighting-anyone who needs to see a real-time quality image with absolutely no delay. Performance
video also feeds cable television for slightly lowerresolution image distribution to ordinary TV sets in
dressing rooms, shops, and other off-stage locations
as required," Clark says.
The video signal is also distributed digitally to
two forty-inch plasma screens and one sixty-fiveinch plasma screen-all provided by Panasonic-
in the glittering four-storey transparent City Room,
where the high resolution feed from the camera in
the auditorium can be displayed to advantage. The
ceiling loudspeakers are multi-zoned in order to
manage delay and reverberation issues.
In the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, a small
independent performance space used for functions or pre-functions and
latecomer seating, a portable mixer rack can be deployed to handle routine audio tasks, routing the sound to an almost invisible loudspeaker
column a mere four inches wide yet stretching some fifteen feet high. The
column is further camouflaged by its mauve-mud hue matching the
structural column on which it is mounted.
"We made a single column consisting of five individual Bose MA-12
column arrays," Clark says. "It's a true line array to provide high directionality and clarity for voice and light music reinforcement. The
amphitheatre shares the acoustic environment of the whole lobby, which
with glass walls and marble floors is by no means a dry acoustic space."
Rounding out the PSVC systems complement are the intercom, paging and program monitor, and hearing assistance systems. The intercom
comprises both wired and wireless components. The wired intercom
serves up to twelve departments with a designated stage manager location in several rooms and dozens of remote locations accommodating 2channel remotes. "You patch the remote locations onto the departments
as required, so at any one location you can have up to two departments
set up on intercom," Clark explains.
The wired intercom is augmented by a single-channel eight-belt pack
wireless system that can be associated with any of the twelve departments.
One channel is broadcast to all eight, and each of the eight has its own channel to broadcast back. The output of the eight receivers is mixed in audio
and re-broadcast back again so that everyone can hear everyone else.
Interconnected with the intercom is the paging and program
monitor system. A zoned broadcast system, it allows paging into production areas, talent areas, star-talent areas and elsewhere backstage di-

INTERCOM
Clear-Com "KB-211" 2-Channel Speaker Station (10)
Clear-Com "RM-440" 4-Channel Headset/Speaker Station (3)
Clear-Com "MS-812-12" 12-Channel Programmable Master Station (1)
Clear-Com "PS-464" 4-Channel Power Supply (4)
Clear-Com "RS-601" Single Channel Belt Pack (15)
Clear-Com "RS-602" 2-Channel Belt Pack (10)
Clear-Com "TW-12B" Clear-Com to RTS Interface (2)
HME "Pro850" Wireless Intercom System (3)
VIDEO
Blonder Tongue "FA3M-50-860" Audio-Video Modulator (1)
Blonder Tongue "OC-8d" Output Combiner (1)
Blonder Tongue "RMDA 860-30" Distribution Amplifier (60)
Panasonic "TH-42PWD7UY" 42-inch Flat Panel Plasma TV (4)
Panasonic "CT-20SL15" 20-inch TV (20)
Panasonic "CT-27SL15" 27-inch TV (20)
Panasonic "CT-32SL15" 32-inch TV (10)
Canare "242U-DVJS " Serial Digital Patch Bay (6)
Panasonic "WV-CM1020" 9-inch Color Monitor (10)
Marshall "V-R44P" Quad 4-inch LCD Display (1)
Marshall "V-R151P" 15-inch LCD Monitor (1)
Panasonic "WV-CM2080" 20-inch Color Monitor (10)
Kramer "PIP-200" Picture-in-Picture Inserter (1)
Kramer "SG-6003B" Sync Generator (1)
Kramer "VS-402XL" Video/Audio Matrix Switcher (1)
Sierra Video "Series 10 501019" Equalizing Video Distribution Amplifier (1)
Panasonic "DMR-ES10" DVD Recorder (1)
Panasonic "AW-E650P" 1/2-inch 3-CCD Camera (3)
Panasonic "WV-CL920A" Surveillance Camera (1)

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