Sports & Public Facilities Audio, Video & Control Systems
2006 - 2002

Sports Arenas:

September - October - November 2006 - ICC Event Center Arenas
Broomfield CO, Rio Rancho NM, Prescott Valley AZ
TIP installed 4 Speaker Clusters which included 3 Renkus-Hienz MF, HF horns, and 1 Renkus-Hienz LF cabinet. The center cluster included 3 Renkus-Hienz HF, MF horns. One aimed at center ice and the other 2 aimed at each goal. There are 2 amp racks located on the cat walk which housed the amps and audio control DSPs. These amp rack are connected to the control booth via fiber optic cable. In the control booth TIP installed a new announcers rack complete with intercom to all camera and spotlight locations in the Arena.

September 2006 - Cotton Bowl
At the Cotton Bowl located in Dallas Texas we installed 6 sets of 5 high Renkus-Hienz self power line arrays. Here we also installed 6 sets of self-powered Renkus-Hienz dual 18 inch subwoofers. They were formed into 2 stacks that were 3 high. We also installed 8 self-powered Renkus-Hienz short throw and long throw horns for side fills and to fill the upper deck. Since the speaker platform is 135 feet high all of the speakers had to be crane hoisted in from the top. The bi-amp DSP and associated gear is located at the speaker platform and linked to the control room via fiber optic cable. We also on installed an amp rack that powered 9 under balcony speakers on each of the stadium.

August 2006 - Papa Johns Field, Home of the Louisville Cardinals
At the sign we installed 5 sets of 4 high Renkus - Hienz self powered line arrays. We also installed 4 sets of self powered Renkus - Hienz dual 18 inch subwoofer cabinets. The Biamp DSP is located at the sign, and is linked back to the control room via fiber optic cable. We also installed 2 channels of analog back-up in case if the digital system were to go out. We integrated the system with their existing front end system and patch bays.

July - August 2006 - Chase Field, Home of the Arizona Diamondbacks
2 steel 50 ft boxes were added on each side of the sign in center field in which each housed a self powered JBL line array of 13 speaker boxes. They also housed 8 self powered JBL dual 18'' subwoofers that were fashioned in an array. At the top of the speaker platform we installed 5 mayer SB-1 parabolic HF horns. We upgraded the crown amplifiers with new PIP cards with ethernet capability. The 4 amp rooms were linked together via fiber optic cable back to the PA announcers booth. In the PA room we completely removed the existing Media Matrix system and integrated 3 Bi-amp Audia Flex digital signal processors. All of the amplifies including the new speakers could be monitored from this location. We also removed there old console and integrated an Allen & Heath 32 channel mixing console.

March 2006 - Tropicana Field, Home of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Installed 6 self-powered Rienkus-Hienz line arrays. Each of which were outfitted with 11 cabinets. They were winched 180 feet in the air and locked in place.

Public Facilities:

May - June 2006 - Medieval Times Dinner Theater
We installed and terminated 16 bi-amped JBL clusters which consisted of 2 boxes. We also installed and terminated 8 JBL LF speaker cabinets. There are 79 JBL control 29 speakers over and behind the crowd for sound effects. In the lobby we installed 12 JBL control 29's and 4 small JBL cabinets.

March - April 2006 - CDC Bldg. 20 Center for Disease Control, Atlanta GA
We installed 6 conference rooms 3 of which have video conference capabilities. We also installed 2 training rooms that have a 70.7 volt speaker system, projector, electric screen, and podium. We also installed 70 volt speakers in the heath center and yoga room.

2006 - Archbold Medical Center, Thomasville, GA
Installed 1 auditorium with 3 Sharp projectors, Sound reinforcement, Crestron Control. 1 Divisible Video Conferencing room, 2 Sharp Projectors, Polycom 8000, Clear one XAP 800, Extron 8X8 RGB and Svid switches, Sony Cameras and one integrated podium. 1 computer lab training system, with the following components, Crestron Quick Media, Sharp Projector and 1 integrated podium with source equipment. 2 Divisible training rooms, Crestron control, Sharp projector, sound reinforcement and source interface extron wall plates. 1 Boardroom with Video Conferencing through a Polycom 8000. It also has 1 projector source gear located in credenza with processing and video switching, all controlled with Crestron Control system.

2005 - Gwinnett Convention Center, Duluth, GA
We completely removed and replaced the convention centers breakout room audio and control system. It consisted of two large divisible by 3 rooms, 2 medium rooms divisible by 2 and 1 Boardroom. We replaced the existing FSR room combining system with Media matrix for room combining and source selection. We also provided programming of a new Crestron Control system consisting of one PROAV processor, 22 BB-6 panels and one TPS-4000L panel. TIP provided all programming and GUI interface for this system to provide an easy user interface for combining of rooms, volume controls, and audio source selection control.

Jan. 2005 to Aug. 2005 - The Center for Disease Control's Global Communication Headquarters, Atlanta, GA
The Center for Disease Control's Global Communication Headquarters consisted of state of the art HDSDI capabilities. We installed 4 30 seat divisible rooms that can be expanded to 60 seats with the following equipment; Crestron Pro2's, Crestron UPX's, Barco Icon600's, Evertz AES coax to two wire converters, with podiums and source equipment.

We installed 1 60 seat video conferencing room consisting of rear screen projection (Barco Icon600), Crestron Pro2, Crestron UPX's, 4 Sony HD capatible cameras, Lecturn with touchscreen and UPX panel, HDVHS player, Quadview monitor, 1 Panasonic 42" plasma, Extron Switchers and scan converters, Analog Way HDSDI to RGBHV converters, Tandberg Video conferencing unit, and XAP400 and 800 mixers/audio conferencing units.

We installed equipment into a 400 seat Auditorium with 40 70v ceiling speakers 3 HDSDI pan tilt Panasonic Cameras with Telemetric's controllers, 1 lectern with Touchscreen's, 4 Barco Icon600 projectors (Two were dual stack in Drop down Enclosure for Main Screen), 16 Analog way HDSDI to RGBHV scan converters, 2 Extron 32 X32 Switchers, 2 Crestron Pro2's, 3 Crestron UPX's, 1 Yamaha DME 64 with 4 Input DA's and 4 Output DA's, Evertz Fiber optic frames for AES audio Conversion, and one Yamaha O2R with AES input cards.

We installed equipment in a 300 seat auditorium with surround efx. The system equipment was very similar to the 400 seat room with the exception being quantity.

We also installed equipment in the CDC's main press conference room. We moved their existing equipment from the old location to the new building. We replaced all of the audio side with a Yamaha DME64 engine and Yamaha D/A converters for inputs and outputs. We added the Yamaha O2R console. We also hung 2 62" plasma's (one ceiling and one Wall) in addition there was a custom lectern with a UPX touchpanel. The Control was Crestron Pro2 and a UPX processor. This room was a tight time frame for removal and reinstall. We completed the process in less than one week.

All of the above systems were linked to the main control room with multiple runs of HDSDI, Fiber optic's, AES audio, Reference signal, Time code signals, and Intercom. The build was three floors with rooms located in two of the three floors. We also ran 240 HDSDI from the "OCC" to the basement for Video broadcast along with 150 AES, 75 REF, 60 Time Code, 75 CAT6E, and some miscellaneous intercom and control cabling.

Over all from start to finish was approx. 8 months of constant onsite work with 2 months of shop build.

2004 - Atlanta Fire and Police 911 Emergency Center, Atlanta, GA
Total monitoring system upgrade to allow 911 Operators to see emergency call data (real time) as they dispatch Police and Fire. TIP removed all existing monitors and mounts throughout the 911 Command Center and replaced with Ceiling Mounted 30" Flat Panel Monitors without disrupting daily activities of the Center. A 42" Flat Panel Monitor with associated program switching was was added the Conference Room to monitor critical 911 Emergency Calls. Project was completed Nov. 2004.

2003 - Fulton County Commission, Atlanta, GA
Main Auditorium, North and South Annex Facilities, Video Conferencing integration systems to allow real time networking all three facilities to conference and monitor each other at once. Overhead projection and 60” Plasma Displays, wired and wireless mics, distributed audio and AMX Control.

2002 - Gwinnet Cultural Arts Center, Duluth, GA
20,000 sf Ballroom w/10 separate room divider system with independent control (Media Matrix).

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