Hinkle Fieldhouse Tour – Feb 12 2015

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DATE:
THURSDAY, February 12, 2015. 7:30 – 9:30 PM

LOCATION:  Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler University campus – 510 W. 49th St. (Recommend heading Westbound from Meridian St. on 49th St.)

DIRECTIONS: Hinkle Fieldhouse is located on the Butler University campus at the corner of W. 46th Street & Boulevard Place. It’s Bldg. 22 on this map:  http://www.butler.edu/campus-map/ and here is a link to Google Maps:goo.gl/7zEGfT

PARKING – Main lot (south side of Fieldhouse).  Enter the Fieldhouse via Gate 4 (farthest east)

Note:  Start time for this meeting is 7:30 PM

COST: FREE

Our next meeting promises to be a very informative one.  Hosts Joe Gentry and Russ Hoppel will review recently completed technical system upgrades at Hinkle Fieldhouse, including:

  • A new center court LED video scoreboard with supporting video production suite
  • New audio system – center scoreboard loudspeakers, audio infrastructure for new mix position and band position, Yamaha console and reconfigured and optimized signal processing for the entire sound system to all seats

The presentation also will include discussion of:

  • Design considerations and construction challenges
  • Addressing the challenge of overcoming a large, reverberant room and high crowd noise to maintain intelligibility
  • Optimizing signal processing for live band vs. media vs. talker
  • Managing feeds fir multiple broadcast – home and visiting radio, live TV, in-house video production

** Click on the following RSVP if you plan to attend – the earlier the better!