{"id":35253,"date":"2023-06-07T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/?post_type=press-release&p=35253"},"modified":"2024-04-19T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T09:42:38","slug":"chicagos-salt-shed-chooses-seasoned-l-acoustics-k2-concert-sound-system","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/fr\/press-releases\/chicagos-salt-shed-chooses-seasoned-l-acoustics-k2-concert-sound-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s Salt Shed Chooses Seasoned L-Acoustics K2 Concert Sound System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

16″ On Center taps OSA to design and install a top-tier L-Acoustics live audio system for the Windy City promoter\u2019s newest and largest venue<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CHICAGO, Illinois \u2013 June 2023 \u2013<\/strong> For nearly a hundred years, Chicago\u2019s Morton Salt warehouse, sandwiched between the Kennedy Expressway and Goose Island, has been a familiar fixture on the city\u2019s north side. With its long roof emblazoned with the iconic Umbrella Girl mascot and famous When It Rains It Pours<\/em> slogan, the facility has been an enduring landmark for those driving into the downtown area. Now, thanks to the vision of 16″ On Center (16OC), along with local developer Blue Star Properties, the former Morton Salt facility has metamorphosed into a new entertainment complex known as the Salt Shed, with live music as its bread and butter and a new L-Acoustics K2<\/a> professional audio system, designed and installed by local L-Acoustics Certified Provider integrator (CPi) OSA International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The renovated $20 million Salt Shed is the latest venture from 16OC\u2019s Bruce Finkelman and Craig Golden, the team behind some of Chicago\u2019s most iconic music venues and restaurants. The new complex, which now represents the city\u2019s largest independent multi-venue music site, features two primary spaces: the Fairgrounds, a 5,000-capacity outdoor concert area on the Chicago River that began hosting shows last summer, and the newly-opened Shed, a 3,500-capacity indoor performance hall in the historic Morton Salt building that is home to the L-Acoustics concert speaker system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Salt Shed Production Manager Tim Schoen, who previously served at 16OC\u2019s Thalia Hall in the same capacity for nearly a decade, L-Acoustics was in the new venue\u2019s DNA almost from the get-go. \u201cEarly on, Craig and I were chatting about the project and one thing that he said really stuck with me and helped dictate the gear decisions I was making,\u201d Schoen recalls. \u201cHe said that we had to make the Salt Shed a truly world-class venue, which meant that everything had to sound better than just \u2018great.\u2019 There are a lot of great-sounding rooms and rigs all over this city, but he wanted to up the ante and bring in a world-class system for a world-class room, which, for me, made L-Acoustics an easy decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The venue\u2019s K2\/Kara II main arrays are each backed by KS28 sub hangs (Phil Lesh & Friends concert, March 12; Photo Credit: Jeremy Lawson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To accomplish this, Schoen turned to OSA and L-Acoustics to create a Soundvision model of the Shed, which proved to be a challenging environment to control sonically. \u201cThe Shed is basically a long, skinny shoebox, a couple hundred feet deep, with a trapezoidal roof and tons of reflective surfaces,\u201d he describes. \u201cWe brought in acoustician Steven Sockey of Truephonic, who made some excellent recommendations about installing lapendary panels across the ceiling and other sound absorption treatments throughout the space, but the adjustable directivity of the K2 arrays and A15 delays proved to be equally important to the room\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brandon Gardner, OSA Director of AV Integration – Professional Systems, agrees: \u201cBeing able to adjust and refine the directionality of the PA with L-Acoustics\u2019 Panflex feature was immensely helpful. The top enclosures of the K2 arrays are set to 70 degrees, some of the middles are at 90, and the bottoms are at 110, which was instrumental in keeping sound off the walls. And with a premium balcony at house left, we could easily custom-tailor the arrays onsite to avoid those potential reflections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installed in January, Salt Shed\u2019s concert sound loudspeaker complement features left and right main hangs of nine L-Acoustics K2 over three Kara II<\/a> downs, with a flown center-fill comprised of one A15 Focus<\/a> and one A15 Wide<\/a>. Four KS28<\/a> subs are flown behind each main array, while another four enclosures are on the ground in front of the center stage. Half a dozen X8<\/a> spread out across the stage lip deliver front-fill, while stage left and right pairings of a single A15 Focus and KS21<\/a> provide side-fill. Thirteen X15 HiQ<\/a> wedges and one KS21 sub offer stage monitoring, and at the far end of the room, two hangs of A15i Focus and A15i Wide serve as delays. The house and monitor systems are each piloted by DiGiCo Quantum338 consoles paired with SD-Racks loaded with 32-bit I\/O modules, and the entire loudspeaker setup is driven via AVB with a P1 processor and eight LA7.16i, and three LA12X amplified controllers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite the Shed\u2019s cavernous room geometry, the L-Acoustics system is keeping the space \u201cwell controlled,\u201d says OSA\u2019s Brandon Gardner (Shovels & Rope concert, May 11; Photo Credit: Nick Langlois)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salt Shed has very quickly established itself as one of the city\u2019s premier live performance halls (Bush concert for the venue\u2019s soft opening, February 25; Photo Credit: Catalina Florea)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The project notably represented the first major US deployment of L-Acoustics\u2019 new LA7.16i amplified controller on a system of this size. \u201cWe\u2019re using three LA7.16i per side on the left and right hangs, so each amplifier is driving four K2 or Kara II and providing individual box control, greatly improving the response across the room,\u201d shares Gardner. \u201cWe would have needed twice as many amplifiers for each hang if it wasn\u2019t for this product, which packs a lot of channels and power into only 2U. We\u2019re using just one of them to drive the fill speakers, so it\u2019s doing all the X8 and X15, which was really easy and saved us rack space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m probably pretty biased, but I\u2019d say that this is now the best-sounding system in Chicago,\u201d he continues. \u201cAudio-wise, there\u2019s not a bad spot in the room, from the stage all the way up to the balcony\u2019s back row, which can be a surprise because it\u2019s a cavernous venue. I\u2019ve heard people say that they were expecting the room to sound brutal with lots of reflections, but the space is well-controlled. 16″ On Center paid a lot of attention to detail in preserving the visual aesthetic of this historic structure, but it only looks like a big shed\u2014it doesn\u2019t sound like one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe clarity and low-end representation throughout the room is fantastic,\u201d Schoen adds. \u201cWe\u2019re a rock venue first and foremost, so we wanted that visceral sound experience, but not at a tradeoff to fidelity. Being able to walk around the entire venue and get the same clarity and punch everywhere is just surreal. And when I\u2019m at the front-of-house with my SPL meter reading that we\u2019re at 105dB, yet it seems like 90dB, and the system isn\u2019t even sweating, that\u2019s also amazing. It’s like looking at the speedometer in a Lamborghini and thinking, \u2018I didn\u2019t realize I was going that fast.\u2019 With K2 in the room, I sometimes wonder if my meter is calibrated properly, but then I realize it must be because I can\u2019t talk to the guy next to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schoen goes on to say that the system\u2019s rider-friendliness has also been a tremendous benefit: \u201cSalt Shed is 16″ On Center\u2019s first L-Acoustics system, and I have to say that it\u2019s dramatically cut down our advance times. Production managers and touring engineers take one look at our tech specs and say, \u2018Okay, what time do you want us to be there?\u2019 With the combination of K2 and Quantum, we\u2019re giving them the best of the best. There\u2019s no need to convince anyone that they should use our setup. They already know they\u2019ll spend zero time tweaking the room and have a fantastic show. I can\u2019t even tell you how many smiles I\u2019ve already seen on the engineers\u2019 faces who have had the pleasure of working on this rig. And this summer, we\u2019ve decided to fly K2 for our larger Fairgrounds shows outside, so engineers, artists, and fans are all guaranteed an amazing experience no matter where they are on our property.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more details on the Salt Shed, visit www.saltshedchicago.com<\/a>. OSA International can be found online at www.osacorp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the new venue\u2019s K2 mains and A15 delays seen from the rear balcony (Goose concert, April 15; Photo Credit: Nick Langlois)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chicago\u2019s new Salt Shed occupies the historic Morton Salt warehouse on the city\u2019s north side (Photo Credit: Sandra Steinbrecher)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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