Powersoft X4 Amps Help St Francis High School Deliver Multi-Purpose Audio
Mar 8, 2016 4:54pm
· St. Francis, KS – In a small town like St. Francis, Kansas, situated on the Kansas-Colorado state line, the local high school gymnasium bears a much greater responsibility than simply hosting the occasional school assembly. In this regard, St. Francis High School’s gymnasium is an overachiever, able to handle district-wide sports tournaments, town meetings, and local entertainment events. Its flexible and highly intelligible sound system — installed last October by Colorado and Kansas-based DK Audio Video (DKAV) — has Powersoft amplifiers at its foundation and is now the pride of the local community.
The two Powersoft amps were situated in a ‘restricted access’ upstairs room, along with a Juice Goose remote power sequencer. “Before Armonía we would have needed separate, standalone EQs and compressors, but now everything is completely self-contained and so easy to hide away,” Lafferty says. The mixing board, housed in a portable case, can plug into any one of 3 separate tie-in locations on the floor of the gymnasium depending on the floorplan of a given event. Also, the system can be powered on from the board remotely via turnkey.
Cause for Applause
When Lafferty and his team first powered up the system, the results were astonishing. “Shortly after we fired it up the principal put a stop to all classes and told everybody to come down to the gym and take a listen — it was that cool!” Lafferty recalls. Nearly 300 additional visitors eventually made their way to the gymnasium over the course of the day to experience the new system for themselves. “We had people from the local town coming by saying, ‘we heard there’s an awesome new sound system and we want to hear it’.” To Lafferty’s own ears, the value of Powersoft is abundantly clear: “The sound is incredibly detailed, and the simplicity of the system is second to none. My main goal was to attain a system that was simple for my client to use, and with Powersoft and Armonía, we achieved all that and so much more.”
Since the completion of the install in late October, the gymnasium has hosted concerts, weddings, town meetings and various athletic events, imbuing a true impact on the broader community. “They can do anything in that space now — it’s only limited to their imagination,” Lafferty concludes.
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