Event Wave was honored to once again provide turn-key audio services for The Nerd Machine’s annual NerdHQ convention. This year’s sound design created an immersive environment throughout the new venue, the New Children’s Museum. Sound for the event included a production audio package for a live streaming performance stage, a club system for a nightly dance party, and a distributed system throughout all three levels of the museum for background music and announcements.
This year’s dance parties featured 8 VT4883 subwoofers in two cardioid arrays, custom tuned to delivered chest-pounding beats on the dance floor, while minimizing the sound impact on the venue’s neighboring buildings.
We were proud to provide wireless coordination services, successfully deploying over 40 channels of wireless microphones and crew communications systems across multiple zones. Even in the middle of the notoriously busy production environment of Comic-Con, wireless audio was always clean and free of drop-outs.
An all-star team of our audio engineers worked in shifts around the clock to make sure that all of the attendees throughout the week heard great sound throughout the sprawling venue, from early morning panel discussions to late-night dance parties.
Technologies deployed included a Dante digital audio network infrastructure featuring a Yamaha CL5 digital mixing console, Yamaha Rio stage racks, and Shure ULX-D digital wireless microphones. PA designs included JBL VRX curvilinear loudspeakers and JBL Vertec line arrays, as well as QSC K12 powered speakers for distributed audio. Our communication systems integrated RTS party line intercom and Telex BTR wireless intercom.
