Sound & Communications October 20, 2008 Issue

spa and fitness center. Vogtelaborated, “We provided presentation/audioconferencingsystems for six sales rooms,two boardrooms and the hotelmanager’s meeting room.In addition, six home-theaterstylesystems were installed inthe luxury hotel suites.”Large, CurvedVideowallThe National Pastime SportsBar features a 32-foot-wide by9-foot-high curved videowallthat is capable of displaying up to 12discreet HD channels at any one time.This is made possible by videowall processingfrom Vista Systems’ Spyder, aswell as warping and blending by 3DPerceptions’ CompactUTM. Video isprojected by six projectiondesign F30+SXGA projectors onto a custom StewartFilmscreen AT3 screen. The videowallis complemented by a 10,000-watt JBLThe National Pastime Sports Bar’s 32'x9' curved videowall can display up to 12 discreetHD channels at any one time.sound system in 7.1 surround by Lexicon,as well as 20 flat-panel displaysfrom LG and Sharp located throughoutthe bar.In Pose, Gaylord’s 19 th -floor UltraLounge, which provides a panoramicview of the Washington skyline, AVI-SPL provided a sound system to rivalWashington DC’s hottest nightclubs.EAW’s MK and SB series loudspeakerswere selected for the main dancefloor sound-reinforcement system, withadditional sub-bass provided by eightNEXO CD12s, all driven by 60,000watts of Lab.gruppen amplifiers. Thefront-end for this system is a high-techDJ booth featuring Pioneer CDJ1000players, Technics SL1210 MK5 turntablesand a laptop computer runningSerato ScratchLIVE software, all integratedvia a Rane TTM57SL USBequippedDJ mixer.October 2008 51