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Masque Sound installs Meyer Sound Panther loudspeaker system at The Muny

When The Muny, one of the nation’s most iconic outdoor venues, located in St. Louis, Missouri, kicked off its 106th season, patrons were treated to an enhanced and immersive audio experience featuring new Meyer Sound Panther large-format linear line array loudspeakers that were provided by Masque Sound, a theatrical sound reinforcement, installation and design company.

The Panther system was specified by resident co-sound designers John Shivers and David Patridge. “Over the course of ten years as resident co-sound designers at The Muny, John and I had made all of the possible improvements with the audio package we could think of”, says Patridge. “Masque Sound has allowed us to improve loudspeakers, consoles, radios and infrastructure, year after year. Various stages of new construction on the venue campus have allowed us to go to a 100 percent AoIP network using a fiber backbone. We were also able to include better rigging for flying the line arrays and this led to being able to enlarge the main arrays for an even wider coverage area.”

Up until last season, the designers were using Meyer Sound Lyon loudspeakers together with Leopard compact linear line array loudspeakers for the venue. “We wanted to eliminate relying on two different cabinets, so I approached Scott Kalata at Masque Sound to discuss replacing the Leopard part of the system by increasing the count of Lyon”, says Patridge. “At the same time, Meyer Sound had been getting rave reviews for Panther and it made sense to consider a wholesale change rather than asking Masque to acquire a larger inventory of the Lyon, which was nearing end of life.”

With the Panther loudspeakers, the designers can provide spectators in the free seats at the very back and the people all along the side coverage area with the same sound quality that is heard in the premium box seats closer to the stage. Shivers and Patridge have also been able to leverage the venue’s AoIP infrastructure to send outputs from the DiGiCo Quantum SD7 console to the Meyer Sound Galileo Galaxy 816 network platforms and onto the arrays via AVB (Audio, Video, Bridging) networking.

“So many people came together to make this happen, from our Associate Sound Designer Kevin Kennedy and Josh Hummel, our Production Sound Engineer, to the season mixers, the entire audio crew at The Muny, The Muny Technical Director Todd Moore, as well as the other Muny departments heads and the entire house crew, whom all deserve a major thanks”, concludes Patridge. “I also want to give a shoutout to Bob McCarthy and the team at Meyer Sound’s Technical Services department for the advice that they offered on the project.” He also acknowledges his collaboration with Masque Sound, including Scott Kalata and Masque Sound Project Manager Leslie Stong.

(Photo: Phillip Hamer)

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