Staging performances spanning Russian ballet to Singapore Orchestras, the Beijing Poly Theatre is designed to showcase both domestic and international performing arts. Opened in 1991, the venue is one of the main Chinese hubs for cultural arts exchange.

During a recent technical upgrade, local Harman distributor ACE supplied a new audio system for the auditorium that features Soundcraft mixing consoles, Crown amplifiers and BSS signal processors. The auditorium seats 1,428 and is fitted with a world-class audiovisual system. ACE provided an accompanying audio system to handle everything from opera, symphonic concerts, ballets and musicals.

Soundcraft Vi6 and Vi4 digital mixing consoles were installed in the control room, where they share a Stagebox so that audio can be routed into both consoles. The Vi6 is the main console used for front of house, with the Vi4 used as a backup console or monitors.

‘The two Soundcraft consoles form a complete mixing system that is extremely versatile,’ says ACE VP of Engineering, Lina Han. ‘They have added a huge amount of digital mixing capacity to the control room, and by just switching a few cables around, they can be configured for any purpose.’

The loudspeaker system is powered by Crown Macro-Tech i-Series amplifiers and supported with BSS Blu-160 signal processors, which offer configurable signal processing at a high bandwidth.

‘By converting the existing analogue infrastructure into newer digital systems, we have transformed the control room of the theatre,’ says Han. ‘The biggest challenge for this project is that we only had 15 business days to complete, which meant that we pre-configured all the equipment in-house. The customer was very satisfied, as we provided reliable maintenance and support during the integration process.’

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