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High-Tech Park Gets Fiber Optic A/V Systems for
Amphitheater’s Floating Stage— Teer Engineering, an Orlando, FL-based design and
systems integration company, deploys 80 channel, all-digital
LightViper™ fiber optic audio snake system in unique entertainment venue —
ORLANDO, FL, August 3, 2006 — FiberPlex, Inc., the leading professional audio fiber optic supplier to the systems contracting and integration industry, announced that its LightViper™ fiber optic digital audio transport system has been installed in Crane’s Roost Park, a multi-use venue located in a rejuvenated green space in the city of Altamonte Springs, FL. Audio/video systems integrators Teer Engineering recently completed the first phase of a large-scale, sophisticated audio/video system installation including the upgraded venue’s 900-seat amphitheater that features a 100’ X 60’ “floating stage” on the park’s 37-acre lake.Cranes Roost Park sits at the center of Altamonte Town Center, a 25-acre, 1.5-million-square-foot, master-planned development connected to a larger 1,400-acre business and residential district.
John Teer, President of Orlando-based Teer Engineering, commented on technical aspects of the cutting-edge fiber optic audio transport technology employed in the unique, high-tech park’s amphitheater:
“We deployed 80 audio channels of LightViper fiber optic electronics (64 sends and 16 returns). The underground Mil-spec tactical fiber cable run is a twelve strand bundle of single mode fiber for all audio, video and background music. We dedicated four strands to the LightViper system for the stage-to-FOH audio. We simply couldn’t use traditional copper wiring for this project for a host of reasons, including the obvious safety issues in a multi-use public venue. Because the stage literally floats on a lake — and will be repositioned from time-to-time — we needed an extremely safe and ultra-reliable method for providing easy-to-use, plug ‘n’ play interconnections for outside rental or client A/V production companies; these are the primary users who will be utilizing the Park’s new technical facilities.”Teer added: “Naturally, the entire fiber optic audio system is impervious to lightning strikes, something we’re famous for here in Central Florida! With the LightViper digital audio snake there is simply no noise whatsoever and absolutely no ground loops either; it performs flawlessly. We looked at other available audio fiber components, but the simplicity and reliability of the LightViper system won out. It’s an elegantly straightforward design: a point-to-point, stage-to-control, professional digital audio system that doesn’t rely on computer software control to do its thing. The ‘Viper’s’ abilities to switch phantom power and gain at the stage box were also crucial features we needed that none of the other systems had.
“Because of the many outside vendors who will be using it, we truly had to make this entire audio system very user-friendly. When our client told us all technical systems not only had to be state-of-the-art, but plug ‘n’ play too, they meant it.”...ends 417 words
Editor’s Technical Notes:
LightViper’s fiber optic cable offers total signal path isolation between both stage and mixer as well as between the mixer and power amplification; the cable is totally immune to ground loops, RFI, EMI and electromechanical noise, and runs of up to 1 1/4 miles (6,600 feet) can be easily accomplished without signal loss or degradation.FiberPlex includes a limited lifetime warranty with all of its LightViper system components.
Additional information can be obtained at www.fiberplex.com or www.lightviper.com.
NOTE: LightViper™ is a registered trademark of FiberPlex, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
—For more information, contact Ron Neilson, Neilson/Clyne, Inc.: Tel: (615) 274-2263;
Fax: (615) 274-2595; Email: rneilson@neilsonclyne.com; Web: www.neilsonclyne.com.
The LightViper™ Systems will be demonstrated at Booth #1137 during the 121st AES Convention in San Francisco, CA, October 6-8, 2006.
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