Adlib installs CODA at Velodrome

The CODA Audio system is the first fixed install of its type in the UK utilising CODA’s LA8 (compact) and LA4 (ultra compact) line array speakers.

Once the plans for the system design were approved, the installation schedule was gruelling. It involved ADLIB’s crews working at height, in confined spaces and using a variety of mobile high level access platforms during 5 weeks of overnight shifts.

There is an auxiliary lighting grid suspended 14 metres above the venue floor which was used to distribute the majority of the loudspeakers and all cabling was routed via the high level access platforms which are 25 metres off the ground with a substantial amount of the cabling - which had to be very diligently managed - installed prior to the introduction of speakers into their key locations.

Due to the floor detail and varied building architecture at the track end spectator areas audio coverage is delivered from a combination of loudspeakers. Namely, two Airline LA8 hangs of paired loudspeaker elements and three Airline LA4 hangs of paired loudspeaker elements.

In total there are four audio zones across the 46 x Airline LA8 speakers in 16 hangs and the six hangs of 2 x Airline LA4s.