Adelaide’s Mega Adventure Aerial Park offers a ‘world’s first’ ride designed and built by sister company, Touch Cloud Global. Accompanying the ‘adventure experience’ is a Community loudspeaker system installed by Horder Communication Solutions.
Based in South Australia and with operations in Singapore, Mega Adventure was founded by explorer and adventurer Alex Blyth to pioneer adventure experiences in urban communities. Following the provision of sound systems for its other adventure parks, Mega Adventure recalled the services of John Horder provide high-quality, cost-effective sound to support the park.
Requiring the system to cover the 25m-high open structure control of spill, Horder looked to Hills Audio Visual for assistance in the design, using Community R Series loudspeakers. The brief was to deliver very high quality music and speech uniformly to all levels of the structure, with no spill to the north and south where a residential holiday park and leisure resort are located, and limited spill towards a golf course to the east. Facing sandhills and the ocean, only western border had no restrictions.
‘We decided to use Community R Series R.35-3896 loudspeakers for a number of reasons,’ Hills Audio Visual’s Blake Kirby explains. ‘They offered superb frequency response and SPL specifications, with a well-controlled dispersion pattern. Additionally, their all-weather capability suits the marine environment and their physical footprint suits flying from the structure – they look great and the colour is perfect. Their excellent value for money and being able to achieve perfect coverage from a small number of loudspeakers combined to meet the budget.
‘We chose to fly two loudspeakers pointing down and to the west where dispersion was not an issue and one speaker down and to the east to fill the pattern, but still reduce spill to the east,’ he continues. ‘Each is driven by separate 200W class-D amplifiers as a single zone. The controlled coverage and sound quality are awesome.’
‘The control of the spill exceeded expectations and the sound throughout the structure is uniform, meeting the specified high quality. Very limited EQ was required, with just a small lift at 300Hz and 10KHz for subjective preference. SPL from the top level is so uniform as to be indiscernible by participants.’
‘Now my structure has all the senses covered,’ says Mega Adventure Adelaide GM, Stephen Grundy. ‘It really makes it feel inclusive, especially when there are not a lot of people on the structure.’
