ABC’s “The View” Adds L-Acoustics KIVA System
NEW YORK – The View, ABC Daytime's Emmy
award-winning talk show featuring Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar,
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd, kicked off its current season with a new
set design and revamped sound system for its studio audience.
For the project, sound designer
Dan Gerhard specified a full L-Acoustics rental package comprising 26 KIVA
enclosures split among seven arrays collectively processed and powered by four
LA4 amplified controllers.
Gerhard worked with both
Bob Rendon and Matt Bell of PRG Audio's Mount Vernon, N.Y.-based crew, which
supplied, installed and commissioned the new system in TV Studio 24 at ABC
Television Center East in Manhattan.
The network also
purchased six L-Acoustics 112XT coaxial enclosures, plus several more LA4 amplifiers,
as a permanent monitor package for The View's guest musician
performance area.
Unlike most other talk
shows that feature a single host and guest, The View features five hosts
plus guests seated in close proximity to the audience, creating a somewhat
challenging acoustical environment. However, according to Jeffrey Rothfus,
engineering manager, ABC Daytime, The tight pattern of our flown KIVA arrays
allowed the sound designers to raise the sound level delivered to the audience
without increasing bleed-through to the talent microphones.
According to Matt Bell,
who served as the project manager for the install, From the front row seats on
the main floor all the way to the back of the grandstands, the KIVA hangs have
dramatically improved both intelligibility and coverage throughout the room.
The new loudspeaker arrangement also allowed us to reduce the number of zones
from more than ten down to seven, which has simplified mixing and generally
made everything more coherent.
Bell added, Out of all
of the line array products I've worked with, I have to add that KIVA is by far
the easiest one I've ever hung – and not just because it's one of the smallest
boxes on the market. L-Acoustics really did a fantastic job in designing its
integral rigging system. It's remarkably simple to use.
For more information,
please www.l-acoustics.com (http://www.l-acoustics.com/)
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