Fleet Farm Arena, formerly Gateway Arena, at Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center is known for hosting PRCA rodeo events, but the venue is hardly a one-trick pony. One week might find the facility welcoming the zany full-court basketball antics of the Harlem Globetrotters, while the next might be dazzling everyone’s inner child with a Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live extravaganza. Add to that lineup Disney on Ice, High School Girls Wrestling Regionals, concerts, family shows, corporate events, and sports—lots of sports—including 30 Sioux City Musketeers ice hockey home games each year, plus half a dozen Bandits indoor football games. The arena is a busy and versatile place.
Although Tyson Events Center has been successfully entertaining countless visitors over the past two decades, the performance of the arena’s original sound system had slowed for some time and needed a serious refresh. “Installed when the building was constructed in 2003, their distributed point source system had...
