Originally posted by Meyer Sound and picked up by Pro Sound Web
Named “one of the best opera companies in the world” by Esquire magazine, the Lyric Opera of Chicago presented an American contribution to the operatic stage at the close of its season—Show Boat. To properly present Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s seminal masterpiece that was first performed in 1927, Lyric Opera chose a large complement of sound reinforcement equipment from Meyer Sound.
“As a company, we’re not just doing the great works of European culture but also the great works of American culture,” explains Drew Landmesser, production and technical director for Lyric Opera of Chicago. “This is a 3,600-plus-seat house, a huge hall to be doing a musical. To get everyone’s diction—their song and spoken words—and to be as crisp and clear as possible in a house this size is quite a challenge.”
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by TC Furlong
At the most basic level, for anything that functions, there likely has been a design.
Sometimes the design is good and sometimes it’s not as good.
For example, many inventors tried to make a flying machine, but it wasn’t until the Wright brothers came along with their design for what we now know as an airplane that anything got off the ground.
In modern aircraft, engineers and designers have really only improved and refined the original design by carefully implementing ideas, methods, and tools for coming up with a better design.
When it comes time to design a modern sound system, the same rules of carefully implementing ideas, methods, and tools apply.
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via Meyer Sound – originally posted Feb. 2012
Built in the mid-1920s, The Moody Church in downtown Chicago accommodates more than 3,700 worshippers, making it the largest non-pillared auditorium in the metro area. Amplification inside the vast oval sanctuary was once fraught with challenges until the recent replacement of a 20-year-old main cluster with a new Meyer Sound MINA line array system.
“To the untrained eye, the new cluster doesn’t look that much different,” admits Michael Arman, the church’s audio/visual technical coordinator, “so you might not notice we have a new system. But after the first Sunday, our senior pastor [Dr. Erwin Lutzer] told me that a number of people had praised him on his voice being in unusually good form. Apparently, they were hearing nuances they’d never heard before.”
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