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District Six Fine Arts Center Installs Renkus-Heinz VARIA Loudspeakers

The newly built District Six Fine Arts Center in Roebuck, South Carolina, is a multi-use auditorium that serves all the schools in the area, as well as the surrounding community. Located on the Dorman High School Campus, the Center’s 1,500 seat auditorium hosts a diverse roster of events year round, from theatrical productions and concerts, to movies, recitals, lectures and convocations.

In designing the sound system for the new facility, Raleigh, North Carolina-based Theatre Consultants Collaborative specified Renkus-Heinz VARIA modular point source line array loudspeakers. The main front-of-house system comprises left and right flown arrays of eight VARIA VA101-7 7.5 degree cabinets and one VA101-15 15 degree cabinet.

“VARIA was an ideal choice for this venue because its variable coverage pattern enabled us to use fewer boxes to achieve the same coverage,” explains David Clyburn of MusiCraft in Roebuck, the company handling the installation. “The result was a reduction in both cost and weight, as well as improved sight lines. And the directional capabilities of the VARIA arrays eliminated the need for separate under balcony coverage.”  

VARIA’s modular design enables cabinets to be easily configured as flown vertical arrays, horizontal arrays, or ground stacked. Self-powered and networkable, VARIA’s range of vertical and horizontal dispersion angles and Renkus-Heinz’s Transitional Waveguides are designed to make it easy to configure systems for spaces.

For low frequency reinforcement, six DR18-2 Direct Radiating Subwoofers are ground stacked in concrete reinforced chambers to the left and right of the stage. “The subwoofers are installed three to each side in cardioid configuration, 16 feet above the stage floor,” adds Clyburn.

To address coverage in the balcony, four PN121 two-way Complex Conic systems were installed. Finally, 20 PNX81 two-way systems were installed around the auditorium for surround sound reinforcement, creating a true 7.1 surround sound environment in the auditorium.

Despite a tight timeline and other logistical challenges that accompanied the construction project, Clyburn reports the system has been well received. “The VARIA system is easy to configure, which helped us meet some very short deadlines. Ultimately, the system sounds great, and school and community officials are very pleased with the results.”

Find information about Renkus-Heinz VARIA loudspeakers at www.renkus-heinz.com/varia.

Visit Theatre Consultants Collaborative attheatrecc.net/non_flash/, MusiCraft at www.musicraftsound.com and District Six Fine Arts Center at districtsixarts.com.

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