One of the busiest places in Ocean Road Elementary School is the multi-purpose room.
Hosting everything from lunch periods to presentations and performances, the “cafetorium” is a non-stop hub of activity from before classes begin until late into the evening.
It’s an open, acoustically live space that’s designed more for versatility and utility than for sonic performance. Crowds of kids and a loud HVAC system contribute to the room’s typically high ambient noise levels.
School officials were unhappy with the performance of their present sound system, and needed a system that would be effective and versatile enough to perform daily for announcements, after school programs, and a range of music and theatrical events.
“We had installed a Community Veris system Nellie Bennett Elementary, another school in the Point Pleasant Borough School District, and when the folks at Ocean Road heard it they asked us to come demo a system for them,” says Joe DiSabatino of Chews Landing, NJ-based JD Sound and Video.
“We set up an ENTASYS as well, and they were just amazed with the quality They wanted us to install it immediately.”
The system is configured as one ENTASYS full-range column and one ENTASYS low frequency column per side. A pair of VERIS 212 subwoofers are mounted on custom brackets above the ENTASYS.
“The ENTASYS systems deliver great spoken word intelligibility, and even with all the microphones open, the kids can walk right by the columns and get no feedback.” Crown XT-series amps power the system.
“Everyone is extremely impressed with the system,” DiSabatino continues. “The kids can stand on choir risers right in front of the columns and not be blasted out, while the parents all the way in the back can hear their sons and daughters loud and clear.”
“And the VERIS subs add a nice, smooth bottom end, which is great during movie days.”
