Small baseball stadium expansion.

John Chiara

John Chiara

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Working with a small stadium this year on a variety of shows and they need to extend their announcement coverage to newly opened deck/bleacher section. There is a lighting pole between the 2 areas to be covered and looking for recomendation for speakers to mount on the pole facing 180* from each other, a wireless link to connect from the announcers booth, delay and amp recommendations for this setup. Total throw distance is about 80' in each direction.
 
Re: Small baseball stadium expansion.

John Chiara said:
Working with a small stadium this year on a variety of shows and they need to extend their announcement coverage to newly opened deck/bleacher section. There is a lighting pole between the 2 areas to be covered and looking for recomendation for speakers to mount on the pole facing 180* from each other, a wireless link to connect from the announcers booth, delay and amp recommendations for this setup. Total throw distance is about 80' in each direction.
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What sort of coverage angles (vertical and horizontal) do you need? Of course that all depends on the mounting height.

What sort of SPL do you need?

I assume they need to be weatherproof?

Is weight or size an issue?

Are the electronics in an enclosed area?

And of course-any idea of budget?
 
Re: Small baseball stadium expansion.

Ivan Beaver said:
What sort of coverage angles (vertical and horizontal) do you need? Of course that all depends on the mounting height.
J
What sort of SPL do you need?

I assume they need to be weatherproof?

Is weight or size an issue?

Are the electronics in an enclosed area?

And of course-any idea of budget?
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Narrow vertical and horizontal..60* max
SPL for speaking anouncements during baseball games.
Weather proof and light enough for a simple pole mounting to a 12" diameter light pole. The areas to be covered are directly adjacent to the pole I spoke of so mounting them about 10-12 ' up seems like a good start.
Electronics will be inside a nearby dugout and not exposed at all.
Probably around $3-4k more or less. This is a new venture for for the leasee and they are expanding services slowly.
 
Re: Small baseball stadium expansion.

John Chiara said:
Narrow vertical and horizontal..60* max
SPL for speaking anouncements during baseball games.
Weather proof and light enough for a simple pole mounting to a 12" diameter light pole. The areas to be covered are directly adjacent to the pole I spoke of so mounting them about 10-12 ' up seems like a good start.
Electronics will be inside a nearby dugout and not exposed at all.
Probably around $3-4k more or less. This is a new venture for for the leasee and they are expanding services slowly.
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Does that budget include install-warranty etc? Or is it just for gear? Don't forget to include brackets to mount the speakers.

What you need to do is to start to subtract the things you know the costs of-and then see what is left over.

You might find out real quick there is not much money left over. For an install-that is not much of a budget to work with.
 
Re: Small baseball stadium expansion.

Arthur Skudra said:
With a budget like that, you'll be pressed to even get one speaker! Weatherized speakers can be rather spendy, especially for that kind of throw distance!
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To expand on Art's comment, outdoors 80' is about 28dB of loss compared to a 1m distance. Say your crowd noise is 80-85dB and you want to be 6dB above that and to do so everywhere in the stands, not just on axis of the speakers. That means you might need a speaker that can output 120-127dB@1m. And that may be conservative, your crowd might be noisier or you might want to be 10 or 12dB above the crowd noise for intelligibility.

A speaker that can do that, the amp required to match that, a wireless link and all the related installation (for example getting from the amp to the pole) can add up pretty quick.
 
Re: Small baseball stadium expansion.

Brad Weber said:
To expand on Art's comment, outdoors 80' is about 28dB of loss compared to a 1m distance. Say your crowd noise is 80-85dB and you want to be 6dB above that and to do so everywhere in the stands, not just on axis of the speakers. That means you might need a speaker that can output 120-127dB@1m. And that may be conservative, your crowd might be noisier or you might want to be 10 or 12dB above the crowd noise for intelligibility.

A speaker that can do that, the amp required to match that, a wireless link and all the related installation (for example getting from the amp to the pole) can add up pretty quick.
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Ok, to explain the scale. The crowd to be covered is like 200 people total. This is 20x40 deck and about the same size ground seating opposite the deck.
 
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