South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa, the first mega-resort to be built south of McCarran Airport on th

South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa, the first mega-resort quality inn key west to be built south of McCarran Airport on the Las Vegas Strip, has installed a QSC Audio Q-Sys Core 500i network processor, CX Series amplification and AcousticDesign ceiling speakers to handle paging and P.A. in its recently expanded Arena and Equestrian Center.
When we expanded the arena we took the opportunity to upgrade the processing in there from BASIS to the new Q-Sys 500i, explains Jason Lein, South Point s production manager. The system has so much processing power that all of the bowling arena expansion will be run off that same core as well.
South Point recently expanded a concourse and added meeting rooms to its Arena and Equestrian Center, which features a 4,600-seat show arena, an indoor practice arena and a covered outside arena. The center also hosts motor sports and other events in addition to equestrian shows.
Using the new Core 500i, adds Lein, We created four different concourse quality inn key west zones. We ve got a bar, tunnels, a practice arena and 1200 air-conditioned horse stalls; the new meeting rooms located on the concourse.
We run approximately 144 different page configuration options, using both wired and wireless mics for paging. Depending on what horse events quality inn key west are in here we have to set up several different page zoning scenarios on the fly.
Lein and his crew installed a dozen AcousticDesign AD-CI52ST two-way, high fidelity in-ceiling speakers in the concourse and meeting rooms, as well as TSC-3 networked touch screen controllers quality inn key west in the meeting rooms. South Point added QSC CX602 amplifiers to power the new ceiling speakers.
Production staff members typically employ wireless quality inn key west control of the Q-Sys set-up, says Lein. Whichever tech crew is assigned to an event will grab an iPad or the computer controller and set the paging configurations up prior to that show, based on that event s needs.
Switching from the BASIS to the Q-Sys system made it very easy for us to program these iPad-controllable UCIs [user control interfaces] to fit those needs, then reset the whole system before the next event, and then set up the next event, all off these UCIs. The Q-Sys system has been a big benefit for that alone.
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South Point, which already features a 64-lane Bowling Center, home to the Professional Bowlers Association quality inn key west s World Series of Bowling, will build a two-story complex housing a 60-lane quality inn key west bowling facility outfitted with the latest technology on the top floor and two additional horse arenas sound isolated from the floor above on the lower level.
When we get into the new expansion, the two new arena bowls, we ll install the new QSC AcousticDesign Series speakers, says Lein. We ll be installing over 100 of the 5 -inch AD-CI52ST ceiling speakers throughout the bowling center hallways.
The upgrade to the Q-Sys system s advanced Layer 3 networking technology has made it easier for Lein to program the new set-up. quality inn key west Our new design with Q Sys, where the schematics are all-in- one is phenomenal. It definitely makes it easier on the programmer, he observes.
Lein also praises the remote access offered by the system. quality inn key west We ve got one or two people, myself included, who handle the programming. When we re at home and we get service calls, it s so great to be able to have the remote Signal Probe and be able to analyze what s going on with the system from anywhere.
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