The Canadian County Expo and Event Center in El Reno, OK, a sprawling venue that hosts a range of cultural, business, and entertainment events, has been equipped with a new sound reinforcement systems by Titan Audio Visual (based in Oklahoma City) that incorporate a variety of DAS Audio loudspeakers.
Titan AV owner/founder David Brecheen explains that the venue includes a multiuse facility with a large dirt floor arena for accommodating horse and cattle events, and there’s also an attached exposition hall with a range of amenities for business events. In addition, there’s an outdoor pavilion for livestock and special events, plus large open grounds for livestock stalls and trailer parking.
Coverage for the indoor arena space — for all sides as well as the main floor — is handled by six independent DAS Event Series line arrays that are all flown. Specifically, there are two Event 210 arrays with five cabinets each and four Event 212 arrays with seven cabinets each, with three OVI-12 loudspeakers providing down fill. As many as eight optional Event 218 subwoofers can be ground deployed for special events.
Meanwhile. main floor coverage in the indoor expo hall is accomplished with two Event 210 arrays, each with four cabinets, plus center and outer fills handled by Artec 510A enclosures. There’s also the option to add more Event 210 cabinets from a portable system at the facility.
Moving outdoors, the pavilion is outfitted with 21 DAS OVI-12T loudspeakers installed for even coverage of announcements and program feeds supplied by the indoor arena. This area can also be fed with program material from anywhere in the building. And outside the arena, spread across the north, east and west walls, there are seven DAS WR 6412DX-W weather resistant loudspeakers for coverage of the outdoor stalls and parking areas. These enclosures can be fed with program material from anywhere in the building.
The venue is also outfitted with gear for portable and special event applications, including eight Event 218A subwoofers, eight Artec 510A enclosures, eight Road 15A stage monitors, plus a variety of microphones, audio consoles, and portable power distribution. Additionally, the main lobby entrance is outfitted with four Artec 506 loudspeakers.
“The director of the facility was already familiar with the DAS Event series and was very happy with their performance, so that prior experience helped immensely,” Brecheen says. “The build quality of the DAS Event and WR Series loudspeakers was key to longevity in this space. The outdoor pavilion is exposed to the elements and the indoor arena with its dirt floor required well protected speakers.”
“The Event Series also packs a lot of horsepower without much weight. We had a total weight load limit in the Arena that could not be exceeded, and the DAS Event arrays enabled us to achieve the coverage required while staying within the load limit. Equally important was speech intelligibility. The Event 210 and 212 arrays deliver very clear and intelligible vocals to the far ends of the seating section. There is also a considerable amount of music playback, and these loudspeakers are easily cable of pumping up the jams.”
“DAS has a wide range of products that fit many applications,” he concludes. “On a diverse installation such as this one, all the loudspeakers can be supplied by one manufacturer, and that helps immensely. DAS Audio’s support, particularly that of Carlos Henao, DAS Audio’s U.S. accounts manager, was also a tremendous help.”
