Audio products from Allen & Heath have been installed at the the newly built Fenghua Sports Centre, located in Fenghua District, Ningbo City, China.
The Centre consists of a 7,000-seat stadium, a 700-seat swimming complex, outdoor training facilities, activity venues, and ancillary facilities, and the large-scale project was designed with Fenghua’s marine culture as the key inspiration.
The centre hosts a variety of functions such as extreme sports, competitive sports, leisure and fitness, and assembly celebrations.
Chinese AV solutions provider EZPro was appointed to supply and install the audio system for the new centre as the end user requested for a flexible and reliable solution that was also straightforward and user-friendly.
For the stadium audio system, EZPro opted for an Allen & Heath Avantis console for mixing duties, partnered with a DX168 portable stagebox expander, offering 16 ins and 8 outs, and the larger GX4816 expander, featuring 48 ins and 16 outs plus additional DX connectivity, to provide distributed analogue inputs and outputs to the system.
Over in the swimming complex, the main audio system has been structured around an SQ-7, paired with an AR2412 expander which provides an additional 24x12 analogue I/O to the system. Allen & Heath’s SQ mixer series delivers 48 channels of 96kHz audio with a class-leading <0.7ms latency. The largest mixer in the range, SQ-7 provides 32 onboard preamps, 16 Line Outputs, and 33 faders over 6 layers.
Wu Ziqiang, technical engineer at EZPro, concluded: “The Allen & Heath system ticks all the boxes; powerful processing tools, super-fast setup, and unrivalled ease of use. The variety of built-in processing tools greatly helped FOH engineers to deliver a studio-quality mix in the large venue.”