{"id":15922,"date":"2021-07-08T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/?post_type=customer-stories&p=15922"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T08:01:23","slug":"amon-g-carter-stadium-texas-christian-university","status":"publish","type":"customer-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/fr\/customer-stories\/amon-g-carter-stadium-texas-christian-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Amon G. Carter Stadium, Texas Christian University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Team<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Designer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Integrator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electro Acoustics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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System Calibration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound System Design Support<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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More with Less for a Big-12 NCAA Stadium<\/strong> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Amon G. Carter Stadium, home to Texas Christian University\u2019s Horned Frogs Big 12 football team, underwent a $118 million expansion in 2019. Among its many improvements, the first phase of this multi-year initiative notably involved a significant upgrade of the nearly 50,000-capacity stadium\u2019s video and audio capabilities. A few years before, the university installed a Kara system at Rosenthal Soccer Stadium, home to the popular Lady Frogs women\u2019s soccer team. Now, the \u201cother kind of football\u201d stadium wanted concert-grade sound. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the redesign, priority had been placed on the visually exciting elements and not on the real estate needed for an acoustic system powerful enough to cover the 650 feet from the scoreboard to the end zone. In this case, a massive 100+ foot wide and 50-foot-tall video board took most of the space, leaving less than eight vertical feet in the area above the display to hang the loudspeaker arrays. Additionally, the old system had been much larger, so this was a true case of having to do more with less; after collaborating with the architect to get four more feet in height for the arrays, though an improvement, space was still extremely tight.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith such tight space constraints, we needed a fairly compact loudspeaker system that could still throw 500 feet and push 95 to 98db at that distance when needed. After several planning sessions, we decided on K1, which to my knowledge is the only solution on the market that could check off each of those required boxes for us,\u201d said Ryan Walker, Account Manager for Electro Acoustics. This unusual but effective configuration consisted of three arrays of K1 right next to each other. K1, with its extremely high input, was the only choice for this configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Result<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everyone who has heard the new configuration swears it\u2019s louder than the old one. Walker attributes this to the sonic improvement, that’s immediately noticeable even to untrained ears. \u201cEveryone notices the clarity of the L-Acoustics system, which is so much better than what was in there previously,\u201d he says. \u201cThe funny thing is that everyone thinks that this system is louder than the old one. It\u2019s certainly capable of being much louder, but they\u2019re now averaging between 88 and 90dB for games, which is actually quieter than they ran their old rig. Plus, the comment that I\u2019ve heard over and over is, \u2018I can finally understand what the announcers and refs are saying!\u2019\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Texas Christian University\u2019s (TCU) Horned Frogs football team, at Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas, USA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Texas Christian University\u2019s (TCU) Horned Frogs football team, at Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas, USA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Because of our experience with L-Acoustics at our soccer venue, we knew it would be the right choice for our football stadium. The sound is clearer without having to be louder, and that\u2019s a big improvement for our fan base.   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

T. Ross Bailey<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Senior Associate Athletics Director for Facilities and Operations, TCU <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tech Brief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n