New York City’s Signature Theatre Company has installed a Riedel digital intercom system at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the company’s Frank Gehry-designed Manhattan home.
The installation uses Riedel’s Artist digital intercom matrix and Acrobat Digital Wireless Intercom system to provide a flexible platform for broadcast-audio-quality communications throughout the facility.
Artist systems are used in each of the centre’s three theatres – the Linney, the Diamond, and the Griffin. Stage manager stations use Artist 1000 Series key-panels packaged in flightcases, with access plates throughout the building to provide connections for both Artist control panels and Performer digital partylines, which are routed via a central patchbay.
The theatre company uses an Acrobat CC-60 cell controller to support 16 wireless beltpacks. In addition, 24 Acrobat CA-6 cell antenna units installed at the Pershing Square Signature Center provide complete coverage of the building with seamless hand-over between the antennas’ cells so that communications are amintained regardless of any user’s location. The Acrobat system is optimised for both partyline and point-to-point communications and provides digital audio quality without interfering with UHF radio microphones or in-ear monitors.
‘Riedel’s digital intercoms give us the quality and versatility that is critical for productions in a modern theatre environment,’ says Sound, Video & Communications Supervisor, Graham Johnson. ‘Not only is the ability to communicate essential to the production, but it is also critical to the safety of our staff and performers.’
