Lille, France (January 31, 2012) – QSC Audio Products’ French distributor, Sennheiser France, together with French audio-visual integrator AVN, have installed an extensive Q-Sys audio management system in Lille, northern France, comprising a Core 1000 processor, five I/O Frame units fitted with five Mic/Line input cards, plus three DataPort cards. These connect and control four CX204V amplifiers, which drive 45 AD-CI52T ceiling-mounted speakers. La Cité Des Échanges (CDE) is a large convention centre complex designed to hold exhibitions, seminars, conferences and other events. Situated in a 7-hectare park in the northern town of Lille, less than 20km from the Belgian border, and a mere hour and 20 minutes from London on Eurostar, it's a popular meeting place for European professionals, offering over 3000 square metres of rentable space. It's also equipped with the…

Casale Monferrato, Italy (January 31, 2012) – QSC Audio Products’ distributor in Italy, AudioLink, has delivered a brand new audio system for the Palazzetto dello Sport Paolo Ferraris in Casale Monferrato, based upon the Q-Sys™ integrated system platform, KLA Series active line arrays, and K Series active loudspeakers. Informally known as the PalaFerraris, the multi-purpose venue in northwestern Italy caters to a range of indoor sports, concerts and other events. More importantly, it is home to newly-promoted Serie A basketball team A.S. Junior Casale. The past year has been a memorable one for the team. In 2011 Junior Casale were crowned outright champions of LegaDue and, in a dramatic playoff final, clinched promotion to the top division of Italian basketball. As a top-level team needs a top-level arena, Casale Monferrato city council commissioned a major renovation…

Brentwood, NY  (January 10, 2012) – Suffolk County Community College, located on Long Island, NY, has installed a completely new QSC sound system in its 60,000-square-foot field house that includes WideLine™ line array loudspeakers, PowerLight™ Series amplifiers and SC28 processors. The college, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, sought to improve quality from  rented sound systems that were unable to overcome the less than ideal acoustics at this sports and exhibition complex here. “I’ve been a QSC fan forever,” says system designer/installer Dominick Campana, General Manager of Pro Sound Alliance, a division of Live Sound, Inc., based in Troy, NY. “We had a strict deadline to get things completed so I had to go with a system that I felt very comfortable with, and I have been working with QSC for many years.  For the last 15 years they’ve been…

Greensburg, PA (August 2011) – Word of Life Ministries, eine nicht konfessionsgebundene christliche Kirche im Westen Pennsylvanias, hat ihre Audiosysteme mit einer Vielzahl von QSC Lautsprechern, Line Array Systemen, Endstufen und Controllern modernisiert. Für die Installation der neuen Audiosysteme, die im Altarraum der Kirche, im Klassenzimmer für die Kinder sowie im Café und Jugendzentrum installiert wurden, zeichnete das Unternehmen Stormrider Sound and Lighting Design Systems, verantwortlich, das bei der Installation von Impact Audio aus Pittsburgh unterstützt wurde. Die neue Audiotechnik beinhaltet QSC Lautsprecher der AcousticDesign und der K-Serie, ein ILA WideLine Line Array mit ISIS Serie WL Subwoofern sowie Endstufen der CX und PowerLight Serie. SC28 und QSControl.net™ Systemcontroller verwalten DSP, Steuerung, Überwachung und Verteilung. Der Altarraum von Word of Life wird von geflogenen Arrays auf der linken und rechten Seite beschallt, die jeweils aus acht ILA Line Array WL2082-i bestehen, hinter denen zwei Subwoofer der ILA Serie WL118-sw positioniert sind.

East and West Coasts, USA (Aug 2011) – From Southern California all the way to Eastern Pennsylvania, a number of this summer’s concert series sound providers have utilized the QSC WideLine Series line array to meet the sound reinforcement requirements presented by unique and challenging venues. The Pechanga Amphitheater in Temecula, CA, which ranks among the top Southern California performance venues, hosted headliners this summer including Matchbox Twenty, Lady Antebellum, Alan Jackson, Daughtry and many others. This 4,500 seat outdoor venue, which features a combination of assigned floor seating, raised seating and bleacher seating, prides itself upon having first-rate sound and lighting systems, so that every audience member in every seat has the best experience. Star Way Productions of Murrieta, CA handles the sound for the summer concert series at Pechanga and…

Miami, FL (July 2011) – The New World Center, the iconic 100,000 square foot new home of Miami’s New World Symphony is designed to be the most technologically advanced concert hall in North America. The $160 million complex, collaboration between Architect Frank Gehry and Orchestral Director Michael Tilton Thomas, is a showcase of the utmost advancements in digital technology – from the sharpest HD cameras to the most powerful video projectors to the massive sound system, much of which is networked together via QSC’s Q-Sys integrated system platform. A two-year undertaking, Pro Sound and Video implemented all of the audio systems for the complex, including the main concert hall, the recording studios there, and the entire park system outside. The park, a joint venture between the New World Center and the City of Miami Beach, features more than 160 speakers throughout…

Norfolk, VA (July 2011) ––MacArthur Center mall, the modern upscale 1.1 million-square-foot shopping center in the downtown Hampton Roads area of Norfolk recently completed an audio system upgrade which included QSC’s Q-Sys Integrated System Platform as well as CX Series Amplifiers. Sound and communications systems specialist Independence Communications Inc., a Muzak affiliate, handled the upgrade at the MacArthur Center. The QSC equipment replaced the head end of the mall’s original music playback and paging system, providing a more powerful and flexible DSP solution and significantly reducing the rack space required. “The performance of the new audio equipment was certainly a big attraction, but there was an even bigger factor behind our selection of QSC for this project,” says William Ammerman III, Director of Engineering for Independence Communications. “We get…

Madison, WI (June 30, 2011) – DSP horsepower and customizable functionality were just two of the important factors that made QSC’s Q-Sys Integrated System Platform the ideal solution for the recent renovation of the Wisconsin State Assembly’s audio system. “This system at the Assembly is the most complex we’ve ever designed or installed,” reports Scott Leonard, vice-president of Wauwatosa, WI-based AV specialists Professional Audio Designs, Inc. “Q-Sys was the only system platform that I could find with enough horsepower to do what I wanted to do.” The task facing Professional Audio Designs was to renovate the fifteen-year-old custom audio system in the Wisconsin State Assembly—the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature located in the State Capitol in Madison—within a limited budget. With the previous installer no longer in business and replacement parts hard to…

Orlando, FLORIDA, 15. Juni 2011 -- Auf der diesjährigen Infocomm stellt QSC zwei neue Produkte vor, die die leistungsstarken Funktionen der erfolgreichen integrierten Systemplattform Q-SYS erweitern. Sowohl der neue Controller TSC-3 als auch die CCN32 CobraNet Audio I/O-Karte ergänzen das Q-SYS System, das sich zur bevorzugten Wahl für die Steuerung von Audiosystemen in großen Veranstaltungsorten entwickelt hat, z. B. im Gastgewerbe, im Transportwesen, in der Unterhaltungsbranche, in Gottesdiensten und in Sportstätten. Der Q-SYS TSC-3 ist ein eleganter Touchscreen-Controller, der eine einfache und kosteneffiziente Steuerung von Q-SYS Systemen und anderen Geräten ermöglicht. Der TSC-3 nutzt die Q-SYS Designe Software, um benutzerdefinierte Bedienpanels (User Control Interfaces oder UCIs) mit Tasten, Fadern, benutzerdefinierter Navigation und anderen Software-Tools, einschließlich Bitmaps und anderen grafischen Bildern, zu erstellen, und stellt diese Bedienfelder dann auf dem Interface bereit.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL (May 6, 2011) – Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL) is undergoing extensive physical and technological renovations, including the addition of new buildings and more planned for the future -- all networking together via QSC’s Q-Sys integrated platform. The first part of FLL’s new evolution was the reintegration of networking systems in Terminal Four. Realizing that their existing networking system had a limited ability to meet the facility’s advancing needs, the airport facility managers consulted with Rod Sintow, CEO of Pro Sound Video, on the kind of system that would serve them best now and into the future. The key considerations were budget, quality, reliability, a system which is energy-efficient, UL rated, and most of all -- the capacity to expand with the planned upgrades of other terminals in years to come. “I recommended…

Mainz, Germany (01 April 2011)-- The thousand year-old Mainzer Dom, (Mainz Roman Catholic Cathedral), one of the most historically important buildings in Western Europe, has undergone a complete A/V refit designed and specified by Rolf Mayer of IFB Consulting, showcasing QSC’s Q-Sys advanced DSP processing system. As Mayer needed to construct a digital backbone that would offer complex routing and low-latency signal transport over standard TCP/IP hardware — ensuring high intelligibility for congregations of up to 4,000 people — he opted for a Q-Sys network constructed around a Core 1000 processor and six I/O Frames. This Romanesque Cathedral, with its striking red fascia, spans a length of 116 meters and has ceiling heights ranging between 28 and 54 meters. From an acoustics perspective this presents the significant challenge of an extraordinarily long reverberation…

London, UK - April 2011 – Eine Rekordzahl von 66 QSC PL3 Endstufen wurde für den neuen Londoner Live-Club "Under the Bridge" spezifiziert und verbaut - die größte Anzahl an QSC PowerLights, die jemals installiert wurde. Der 600 Personen fassende Club im Stamford Bridge-Stadion des Fußballclubs Chelsea FC spezialisiert sich auf eine Vielzahl von Musikveranstaltungen, wie z.B. Showcases von Künstlern, Albumpräsentationen und Festivals. Die neue Inneneinrichtung von Under the Bridge wurde von Jim Cafarelli vom House of Blues entworfen, während Ian Woodall von XL Video und Andrew Frengley von Matrix 9 den Zuschlag für das Design und die Installation der schlüsselfertigen Technik erhielten. Woodall und Frengley, die bereits in der Vergangenheit zusammengearbeitet haben, verfügen beide über umfangreiche Erfahrungen mit QSC Endstufen für Tournee- und Installationsanwendungen. Die hohen Erwartung eines solchen Veranstaltungsortes veranlassten den QSC Vertriebspartner Shure Distribution UK, zunächst an einem Shoot-out gegen andere führende Marken teilzunehmen.

Kingston, RI (March 23, 2011) -- The Ryan Center, a $54 million, 7,500 seat multi-purpose arena on the grounds of the University of Rhode Island, is home to a variety of events including family entertainment, concerts, sports competitions, conventions and a host of other community affairs. Recently, Ryan graduated to a much more intelligent sound system with the help of QSC Audio. Growing concerns with the intelligibility and the overall aesthetics of the venue’s P.A. system led the Center to hire respected A/V system consultant, North American Theatrix, to analyze the state of the system. In reviewing the existing installation, NAT determined that a physical re-arrangement of the existing clusters would cost approximately 1/3 of an all-new cluster, not including additional necessary components. However, the manufacturer of that system was not actively supporting this…

Detroit, MI (March 15, 2011) – Major sporting event fans pay big ticket prices to attend games in person, and a large part of their enjoyment depends upon their ability to hear high-quality play-by-play announcements and entertainment over the stadium’s audio system. Here at Ford Field, home of the NFL Detroit Lions, fans are now hearing an enhanced audio experience with the help of QSC’s Q -Sys integrated system platform. The original audio system at Ford Field was comprised of multiple, interconnected DSP systems of varying ages and types – an infrastructure ripe for potential disaster and sorely in need of an audio overhaul. Losing the stadium audio during a game is the probably the worst nightmare that can happen to any technical crew, and the team at Ford Field experienced this first-hand. “The former system was a mixture of analog and networked digital audio…

Las Vegas, NV (March 1, 2010) – Chateau Nightclub and Gardens, the newest nightclub on the Las Vegas strip, opened the doors of its expansive high-tech complex, showcasing an unsurpassed amount of audio and visual entertainment space throughout. Designer and installer Bob Athey designed and built the A/V and control systems for the massive club, and chose QSC’s Q-Sys Integrated System Platform and PowerLight amplifiers as the system backbone for the entire complex. The 45,000 square foot club spans two levels, with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces. The 15,000 square foot main room, with its large spiral staircase and 10-ft tall marble fireplace, features an elevated DJ booth and giant LED screen that spans the entire length of the back wall. The 10,000 square foot Chateau Terrace, overlooking the strip, boasts another DJ booth, VIP Cabanas, Terrace Bar and dance…