University of California
Events Center
Santa Barbara, California
Project Type: New Construction
Seat Count: 8,000
Opening: 2008
Construction Cost: $175,000
AD Scope: AudioProject done by Acoustic Dimensions San Diego as Sound Technology Consultants, Inc.
The 8,000-seat UCSB Events Center provides a central facility for a wide variety of functions including intercollegiate athletics, concerts, shows and other large gatherings. The original center speaker cluster was replaced with a distributed system of high power, highly intelligible two-way loudspeakers. The system includes a total of 44 speakers distributed in 20 speaker clusters to provide sound coverage to all seating areas and sports courts. Since the existing roof structure was very close to maximum capacity, STC looked for ways to maximize the design efficiency by placing speaker devices in key locations while maintaining optimum sound coverage to all seats.
