Concert Venues and Sound Diffusion

Concert Venues

Martha Ellen Tye Recital Hall seats 300 in an ideal acoustic environment for live instrumental/vocal performance with electronics. Amplification of acoustic instruments is normally not required. The built-in 8.1 loudspeaker array is by Meyer Sound. Speaker positions are 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, and 315 degrees. The LFE is one-channel to two speakers at 45 and 135 degrees. All non-LFE speakers are double, angled for direction to both near and distant points. To this system is added two on-stage speakers. Video projection is built-in, projected to above-stage screen (bottom approx. 7' above stage floor).

Music Hall 130 provides ramped seating for 200, with installed video projection with a surround speaker array brought in for the conference (Genelec).

Music Hall 102 provides seating for 300, with installed video projection speakers .

Lee Liu / Alliant Energy Auditorium in the Virtual Reality Applications Center will be the venue for Paper Session #4. Double projection from a variety of media is available (media from booth or VGA feeds from podium). Multiple internet connections. 3-D projection by special arrangement. Use of this venue is courtesy of the ISU College of Engineering.

Sound Diffusion Options

mono stage a single speaker on stage (advise us of the preferred stage position)
dual mono stage two speakers on stage from a single output
mono front L/R to speakers front (above) and stage from a single output
mono surround configurations up to eight speakers above (L/R/C front and rear, L/R side) and two on-stage speakers, from a single output
mono L/R stage+surround configurations up to eight speakers above (L/R/C front and rear, L/R side) from a single output
2-channel stage L/R to speakers on stage (advise us if two speakers not L/R)
2-channel front L/R to speakers front (above) and stage (four speakers)
2-channel surround configurations up to eight speakers above (L/R/C front and rear, L/R side) from two channels (the default configuration will split the L/R from stage, front, side, and rear, without C front/rear)
4-channel front L/R front (above) and speakers on stage from four outputs (quad on a XY plane, not XZ)
4-channel quad L/R front and L/R rear speakers from four outputs
4-channel surround configurations up to eight speakers above (L/R/C front and rear, L/R side) and two on-stage speakers, from four outputs. Advise us of the configuration.
5.1 L/C/R/S with LFE. Front L/R are wider than the strict specification. Surround L/R couples side 90-degree L/R with rear L/R. From sound files or decode from DVD video.
Note: 7.1 SDDS configuration is not available.
8.0 (full range) L/C/R front, 90-degree side L/R, L/C/R rear in full range. From sound files only.
8.1 L/C/R front, 90-degree side L/R, L/C/R rear with LFE. From sound files only.

Other

configurations compatible with an 8.1 installed speaker array + two on-stage speakers may be described in the box provided on the submissions form.
In particular, describe any routing of stage microphones to positions not L/R stage and/or front.

Direct questions not answered here to seamus07@iastate.edu