Guitar Stuff Music Store Completes Installation of Surround Sound System at Richmond Community Theatre

What do the Richmond Community Theatre, Rockingham Downtown Corporation, Cole Foundation and Guitar Stuff Music Store have in common? A mission to help improve the quality of life for citizens of Richmond County.

(PRWEB) February 16, 2005 -- What do the Richmond Community Theatre, Rockingham Downtown Corporation, Cole Foundation and Guitar Stuff Music Store have in common? A mission to help improve the quality of life for citizens of Richmond County.

The latest efforts have included a major improvement of the Sound System at Richmond Community Theatre. With the financial contribution from a Cole Foundation Grant submitted by the Rockingham Downtown Corporation and free design and installation of the system by Guitar Stuff Music Store, the Richmond Community Theatre now has a state of the art surround sound system for use of its stage productions. Having worked with the Theatre productions for 10 years, Jimmy McDonald, owner of Guitar Stuff Music Store, knew what the needs were concerning the updated system. We now have six zones to work with, verses two with the previous system. The current production, Our Town, will be a good test run of the system. There are various sound effects that are required to help set the mood of certain sections of the play.

The system will also be used to its capacity during the Summer Movie Series sponsored by the Rockingham Downtown Corporation. Last years test run was a huge success. We tried a couple of configurations with the sound system during last years summer movie series. The movie sound system required setting up additional speakers and amplifiers. Based on the two systems used for the Theatre stage productions and the Summer Movies Series, a single sound system was designed to accommodate both forms of entertainment with a sound quality not available before.

The system consists of 1800 watts of amplification into speakers positioned around the stage and seating areas. The sound system will accommodate a variety of speaker configurations and placement to help make the sound effects more realistic during the stage productions. The sound system, supported by three processing units, will also provide 5.1-surround sound for the Summer Movie Series.

Equipment List:

Crate CSX Stereo Mixing Console

Three Crate SPA500 and one SPA300 Amplifiers

Two Crate PSM15 -- FOH

Four Crate PE6I - Surround Sound

Two Crate P118S - Subs

Three Behringer DSP1424P Ultramizers

Two Nady PCL815 power Conditioners

One Nady GEQ-215 Equalizer

Nady PS115 Back Stage

One Pioneer DV578AS DVD Player

One Gemini CDX402 Dual CD Player

Hosa Audio Snakes

Neutrik Connectors

Guitar Stuff Music Store

637-A East Broad Avenue

Rockingham, N.C. 28379

(910) 895-1099

http://www.guitarstuffmusicstore.com

Rockingham Downtown Corporation

P.O. Box 1014

Rockingham, NC 28380

(910) 997-6245

Richmond Community Theater

P.O. Box 635

Rockingham, N.C. 28380

(910) 997-3765

www.richmondcommunitytheatre.com

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