“Putting sound into a large college football stadium is always about punching all the way to the other side of the facility, but also sounding good doing it, which is why we landed on the K2,” comments Ben Boeshans, Senior Consultant at Salas O’Brien, which designed and specified the L-Acoustics sound system installed at Nashville’s FirstBank Stadium, just in time for the start of the 2024-25 college football season. “It puts the sound exactly where it’s needed.”
FirstBank Stadium, home to Vanderbilt University’s Commodores, boasts more “firsts” than its name suggests. Opened in 1922 as Dudley Field, this 40,000-seat venue was the American South’s first stadium built exclusively for college football. The Commodores’ influence extends beyond the field: Their leadership pioneered the modern scoring system, advocating increasing touchdowns from five to six points and reducing field goals from four to three...
