The brainchild of former Target CEO Bob Ulrich, the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, Arizona, houses more than 15,000 instruments from around 200 countries and territories around the world. When Ted Greenbaum was made the venue’s theatre manager, one of his priorities was to upgrade the sound reinforcement system in the 300-seat Music Theater. The venue now sports an all-Meyer Sound reinforcement and monitor system.
The system was recommended by MIM Music Theater Artistic Director Lowell Pickett, who had previously worked with Meyer Sound as a co-owner at Minneapolis’s Dakota jazz club: ‘The clarity and intelligibility are so much better now,’ Greenbaum reports. ‘The difference between the way it sounded before and now is remarkable, and people have been commenting on it.’
MIM features an Avid Venue D-Show Mix Rack system at front of house and an Avid C24 console in the control room. It uses a distributed loudspeaker system, with two Meyer Sound CQ-2s for main left and right with two USW-1P subwoofers for the low frequencies. A UPJ-1P VariO serves as centre fill to pull the image to the centre with the CQ-2s.
Two more UPJ-1P loudspeakers cover the back of the theatre, while five MM-4XP self-powered loudspeakers are used for front fill. Two additional MM4-XP loudspeakers and one UP-4XP 48 V loudspeaker are used to cover side and rear balconies, respectively. In addition, six more UPJ-1P loudspeakers serve as stage monitors, and a third CQ-2 is used as a drum monitor, while a Galileo loudspeaker management system provides drive and optimisation.
‘With a distributed system, the coverage and imaging are great,’ adds Greenbaum. ‘It was right for this room.’
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