12/31/2023 0 Comments Thunderbird cafe pittsburgh city paperOn stage, 11 larger X12 serve as monitor wedges powered by yet another LA4X, and three SB18m are used as stage side fill subs and for the drum fill, collectively powered by two LA12X. Six short-throw X8 loudspeakers, driven by a single LA4X, are used as front fill, while eight more X8 fill in under the balcony, powered by another LA4X. In addition, four KS28 subs are positioned beneath the stage, powered by one LA12X. Roxian Theatre’s system comprises 24 Kara(i) enclosures, hung 12-per-side with each hang backed by three SB18i subs, all powered by seven LA8 amplified controllers. ‘And, of course, they all sound awesome.’ ‘They have the products we need for a wide variety of jobs and the experience to support us for all of them,’ he says. Hollowood cites that kind of close support and collaboration for why Hollowood Music & Sound is an all-L-Acoustics house. Hollowood Music & Sound Installation Technicians Nathan Shapert and Dylan Engles received training on Soundvision, as part of the company becoming an L-Acoustics Certified Provider for installs (CPi), and worked with L-Acoustics Product Manager Scott Sugden and Application Engineer Jesse Stevens to refine the system design before installation and system tuning after it was in place. ‘Plus it’s a clean looking system, which is important for an historic venue like this.’ ‘Kara’s size and weight were ideal for this project,’ he says. The Kara(i) enclosures also offered the compact form factor needed to maintain clear sightlines from the balcony, and the kind of weight-to-performance ratio that made it a good candidate for the near century-old venue’s ceiling. ‘We used L-Acoustics Soundvision software to get a very precise acoustical model of what the sound would do in this space, and when we plugged Kara into those specifications, it came back a perfect match.’ ‘The theatre has a pretty large balcony, and the intent was to host a wide range of music genres, so the sound system had to be able to cover all those bases,’ says Hollowood. Hollowood Music & Sound, whose Brad Hollowood supervises its installation department, may have found the theatre’s location convenient – his store is several doors down from the venue – but the venue presented sonic challenges. ‘Acoustics and sound systems are afterthoughts at a lot of venues,’ he says. Once a vaudeville house, the 90-year-old theatre closed in 2003 and remained vacant until local entrepreneur John Pergal, who also owns nearby Lawrenceville’s Thunderbird Café & Music Hall, engineered it return. Pergal isn’t just an owner – he and his blues band, the Pawnbrokers, play the club. Key to its revival is an L-Acoustics Kara(i) loudspeaker system, designed and installed by Hollowood Music & Sound. The jewel of these is the renaissance of the 1,400-seat Roxian Theatre, which reopened with an impressive slate of headliners including Snarky Puppy, Bruce Hornsby, Bad Religion, The Psychedelic Furs, Common and Avril Lavigne. Pittsburgh’s McKees Rocks is a pleasant suburb with an interesting past and a bright future thanks to the renewal of its downtown.
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