Canadian County Expo & Event Center

DAS Audio Delivers Exceptional Sound Throughout the Canadian County Expo and Event Center 

Event, Artec, WR, Road, and OVI systems provide engaging sound for a wide range of events.

Being the central hub for cultural, business and entertainment events in the greater El Reno (OK)  area, the new facility required a versatile audio system with high caliber sound. Titan Audio Visual, LLC of Oklahoma City, an AV firm and live event production company, was contracted to design and deploy the new DAS Audio systems at the venue.

“The Canadian County Expo includes a multiuse facility with a large dirt floor arena for accommodating horse and cattle events, and an attached exposition for business events. There is also an outdoor pavilion plus large open grounds for special events,  livestock stalls and parking. All of this covers a large space, so the ability to provide even sound coverage throughout these various areas was no small undertaking”, explained David Brecheen, Titan AV´s owner and company founder.

According to Brecheen, the Indoor Arena Space is handled by six Event line arrays—all flown. There are two Event-210 arrays with five cabinets each, four Event-212 arrays with seven cabinets each, and three OVI-12 down fill loudspeakers.

The Indoor Expo Hall includes audio coverage for the main floor. This is accomplished with two Event-210 arrays with four cabinets each, plus Artec-510A cabinets for center and outer fills, with the option of adding more Event-210 cabinets from a portable system.

Outdoors, the Pavilion is outfitted with twenty-one OVI-12T for even coverage of announcements and program feeds, and the Outside Arena is equipped with seven WR 6412DX-W weather resistant loudspeakers for coverage of the outdoor stalls and parking lots. These outdoor spaces can be fed with program material from anywhere in the building.

Additionally, the main lobby entrance is outfitted with four Artec-506 systems. There is also new equipment for portable use and special events,  including eight Event-218A subwoofers, eight Artec-510A enclosures and eight Road-15A stage monitors for use in various halls of the venue.

 “The director of the facility was already familiar with the performance of the Event series, so that prior experience helped immensely. The build quality of the Event and WR systems  was key, since the outdoor pavilion is exposed to the elements and the indoor arena with its dirt floor required well-protected speakers. In addition, we had a total weight load limit in the Arena that could not be exceeded, and the Event arrays enabled us to achieve the coverage required while staying within the load limit. Equally important was speech intelligibility. The Event 210 and 212 arrays deliver very clear and intelligible vocals to the far end section while pumping up the jams when reproducing music playback.”

 “On a diverse installation such as this one, it helps immensely when all the loudspeakers can be supplied by one manufacturer. DAS Audio’s support—particularly that of Carlos Henao, DAS Audio’s U.S. Accounts Manager—was a tremendous help. Everyone at the facility is very happy with the quality of the system and how it is all working together. No matter what type of event, the DAS equipment delivers!”

To learn more about Titan Audio Visual, LLC, visit  www.titanavl.com.