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NFL’S Super Bowl XLI, Pro Bowl Games & College Championships— West Coast audio production companies deploy LightViper™ fiber optic audio transport systems for several post-season championship football games —
ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD, January 29, 2007 — FiberPlex, Inc., the leading professional audio fiber optic supplier to the sound production and systems contracting industry, announced that its LightViper™ fiber optic digital audio transport systems are being utilized in several post-season championship football games including the NFL’s Super Bowl XLI and the follow-up NFL Pro Bowl. College football’s BCS National Championship as well as early January’s Fiesta and Sugar Bowl games also used the LightViper fiber optic audio systems.Southern California-based Audio Specialties used the LightViper for both the Fiesta and Sugar Bowls and for a third consecutive year they will also deploy the system at the NFL’s Super Bowl XLI in Miami, Florida. Audio Specialties also handled the BCS National Championship in Glendale, Arizona, January 8, 2007.
Custom Audio of Kaneohe, Hawaii (Oahu), will handle the entertainment stadium sound with a LightViper system for the NFL’s Pro Bowl in Honolulu. Custom Audio’s co-owner and technical specialist Jeff Kang commented on his company’s decision to go fiber optic for the FOH and Monitor audio for the upcoming nationally televised Pro Bowl:
“It’s never fun running a hulking 56-pair copper snake at a typical outdoor gig; the 500 foot run that has to be deployed in under 90 seconds for the Pro Bowl’s half-time stage show makes running a copper snake out of the question. The main audio multi-channel run from the portable stage to the front-of-house position is handled with one fiber optic cable the diameter of a single mic cable.
Kang continues:
“For the Aloha Stadium show we have a simple two-way audio split with the LightViper and the breakdown after the half-time show’s finale has to be handled just as quickly as the show’s set-up. I recall the agony of doing shows like this in the past with old-school two-inch diameter snakes. Not any more! Not only is the LightViper snake a fraction of the weight — and space — required by a copper snake, it sounds better too. This April we’re doing a Music Awards show; this time we’ll configure it for a three-way split for a broadcast feed. I’ll definitely be using the LightViper for that gig too.”
Steve Cormier, Audio Director for Audio Specialties, expressed similar sentiments about his company’s reliance on the LightViper audio transport system:
“We decided to use the LightViper for all our bowl games this year — the BCS, the Fiesta, the Sugar Bowl and at Fox Broadcasting’s Best Damn Sports Show Period this February at the Super Bowl in Miami. In fact, this is the third year we’ve relied on the LightViper for the Super Bowl.
Cormier summarized his enthusiasm this way:
“It’s compact, lightweight, reliable and sounds terrific. I can’t imagine Audio Specialties doing any of these yearly Bowl shows without it.”...ends 452 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, Clyne Media, Inc.: Tel: (615) 500-3261;
Email: ron@clynemedia.com; Web: www.clynemedia.com.The LightViper™ Systems will be demonstrated at Booth #320 during the 2007 NSCA Expo, March 15-17, in Orlando, FL.
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