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 Boston's Fenway Park is the oldest baseball park in the major leagues. And thanks to the commitment of the team's ownership group, the home of the Boston Red Sox should continue to thrive well beyond its 100th anniversary.
Since 1986, Boston Light & Sound (BL&S) has provided extensive public address and related system services at Fenway Park, a relationship that hit a new high mark this past off-season as BL&S implemented a new stadium-wide distributed sound system over the course of a New England winter under a very tight timeframe.
Designed by WJHW in Dallas, the new sound system replaces an approach largely based upon a center field loudspeaker cluster. It now utilizes more than 200 zones of EAW loudspeakers, providing highly intelligible full-range coverage to defined seating sections. The main grandstand's upper and lower decks are served by groupings of loudspeakers, while the huge center- and right-field bleachers, along with specialty areas such as outdoor plazas and the seats atop the Green Monster, receive reinforcement via carefully selected and placed individual loudspeakers. The BL&S team also added sound reinforcement to the stadium's new upper level club seats, as well as to concourses and walkways.
QSC Audio QSControl.net is the crucial backbone tying the entire system together, integrating amplifier and loudspeaker management with configurable digital signal processing and digital audio transport. BL&S took the lead position with this key facet of the project, assembling and interconnecting the amplifier/processor racks at their shop prior to installation for troubleshooting and optimization.
Fenway Park's many structural anomalies presented a distinct installation challenge. No two sections are alike. To accommodate these differences, BL&S designed and erected numerous loudspeaker mounting brackets, and in some cases built entire steel structures for suitable mounting.
"Boston Light & Sound did this setup work as well as it could possibly be done," notes WJHW's Mark Graham. "With other DSP systems, there's a crash or two as well as complaints about glitches, but not once have there been any network problems, lock-ups, or anything of that nature."
By Opening Day of the 2006 season, the entire ballpark-wide system was ready to go - tested and optimized to supply dramatically upgraded performance for a sold-out crowd of Red Sox faithful. (Story: Keith Clark. Photo: Julie Cordeiro / Boston Red Sox.) |
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