The Granåsen cross-country skiing stadium in Trondheim has followed a nearby ski-jumping facility, and installed a Symetrix SymNet Radius 12x8 open-architecture Dante scalable DSP to support its audio facilities.
The installation was commissioned and completed in time for the FIS World Cup Championships, and includes Denon DN-500C CD player for background music, Sennheiser ew300 G3 wireless microphone system for announcements, and a separate digital mixer. These are input to the Radius 12x8, which is fitted alongside one ARC-K1e and two ARC-EX4e modular wall panel remotes.
The work was carried out by leading Nordic and Baltic IT-A/V supplier Atea: ‘The aim was to provide a system capable of processing multiple inputs and one that could be easily used by both trained personnel and less knowledgeable staff,’ says Senior Consultant and Programmer, André Dominic Schorr. ‘I believe we have succeeded in this objective.’
The equipment is essentially deployed in what Schorr describes as a ‘set, select, volume configuration’. He points to the ability to ‘control one zone in the stadium, so depending on the event we can trigger different inputs, turn on and turn off the amplifiers in the cellar, and so on. It’s fast and flexible – just what was needed’.
The work is part one of a projected that will likely see the ski-jump and cross-country processing systems brought together via a Symetrix-Dante network. ‘The idea is that the stadium and the ski arena can and will eventually be connected together via Dante and a fibre-optic cable that has already been fitted,’ Schorr confirms. To date, Schorr has heard good feedback about the Symetrix installation so far:’ It’s easy to use and sounds great.’
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