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Notts County stadium equipped with Electro-Voice and Dynacord systems

Notts County, the oldest professional football club in the world, has upgraded the sound system at its Meadow Lane stadium. Having experienced the challenges of an aging PA for several years, the club from Nottingham, UK, opted to invest in a new solution to improve the matchday experience while also meeting the life safety requirements of the 18,816-capacity ground. To achieve these goals, Notts County turned to Electro-Voice, Dynacord and Bosch equipment.

Notts County enlisted the help of local systems integrator UK Audio Engineering to design the new sound system. In turn, the installer called on the support of the Electro-Voice and Dynacord UK office. “We worked with the UK Audio Engineering team to design the system from the ground up”, explains Arthur Achard, Electro-Voice and Dynacord Senior Sales Manager. “There were no drawings available for the stadium, so we measured all the stands, the step count and the height of the roof. From this we could design acoustically what would fit best into the space we had.”

The design called on forty EVH1152D 15’’ two-way coaxial loudspeakers supplemented by eighteen EVF2151D subwoofers to provide a PA that could be compliant with safety requirements while also working for entertainment. These are driven by five IPX10:8 and one IPX5:4 fixed-installation amplifiers with processing and control via a pair of MXE5 Matrix Mix Engines.

“The MXE5 allows us to recall presets for different matchday situations while the pro-sound solution is connected to the life-safety system via GPIO ports”, says Electro-Voice and Dynacord Sales Manager Richard Leadbitter. “There’s a lot of processing that goes on there that allows us to tune the system.” The loudspeakers at Meadow Lane are all controlled and monitored via Sonicue Sound System Software. “We worked with the end-user to give them a custom GUI for control”, notes Leadbitter.

The second aspect of the sound system was to ensure that all required safety standards were met. To achieve this, UK Audio Engineering recommended a Bosch Praesensa system that could directly connect into the pro sound system. “Praesensa takes care of all of the public address and any life-safety critical communications that need to be made”, concludes Achard.

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