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Outline
The Park Club is a comprehensive gym facility offering varied
activities in communal areas, sports halls, a swimming pool and
dedicated exercise class environments. Sophisticated audio supply
and control was required throughout the complex, in an intuitive,
yet flexible system.
Challenges
The variety of activities called for a wide variety of inputs,
both centrally and locally controlled, from programmable background
music to live audio.
The physically adverse environments of swimming pool and sports
hall, plus preserving the high quality finish provided further
challenges. Finally, all work had to be completed inside a tight
shutdown window.
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Control and
paging
PC based control at reception provides instant control for paging
area selectivity, avoiding the intrusion of unnecessary announcements.
All rooms are also equipped with a basic set of local controls with
session rooms featuring an advanced set of local inputs and controls
Technical
The heart of the installation is a networked Media Matrix, allowing
strategic network points around the building for very flexible local
control and paging from reception, while maintaining remote amps
for simpler installation and maintenance. This comprehensive core
is teamed with a suite of JBL, EV and Peavey speakers to match varied
applications in different areas.
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Session rooms
Separate rooms for dedicated classes are flexibly equipped with
their own rack for selection of local CD and radio mic inputs.
Sound levels or inputs from remote sound sources can also be selected
giving Park Club a powerful tool for adapting to new classes and
maximising their appeal for membership retention.
Custom music sources
CGA Integration worked closely with Park Club management to match
audio programmes to users. In addition to custom sources for specific
sessions, members can access different tempo programmes provided
by a three hard drive music players, which allow regular updating.
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Special environments
The sports, swimming and dance studios required special attention.
The clean lines of the dance hall were preserved with JBL control
28 speakers, which were also specified to withstand the rigour of
humidity and hard knocks in the swimming and sports areas.
Response
Park Club manager Ben comments:
‘Service from CGA Integration has always been quick, reliable
and effective. Chris appreciates our business and the system has
always done everything we specified.’
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