Cornish College of the Arts recently took delivery of a sizeable wireless setup from Lectrosonics that features the company’s highly acclaimed Digital Hybrid Wireless technology. Cornish College is an institution in the greater Seattle area with approximately 800 students.
Dave Tosti-Lane, Chair Performance Production Department at Cornish College of the Arts said, “Prior to our new system we had been unable to effectively teach students how to work with wireless gear, and this was a major hole in our curriculum.”
“Previously, we owned just three UHF systems which were located in the 700 MHz band. The combination of the recent FCC changes that made our previous wireless system unusable, together with an increasing demand for expanding our musical theater program, led the administration to authorize the funds to address wireless in a systematic way.”
Lectrosonics wireless technology offered Tosti-Lane numerous benefits. “I’ve long been watching Lectrosonics on the advice of audio professionals I trust,” he said.
“The Venue system offers significant advantages, not the least of which is fitting twelve wireless microphone channels into just two rack spaces.
“Moreover, the built-in antenna routing, multiple options for diversity operation, and the LecNet2 VR panel configuration software made this equipment extremely attractive to me—both as a working system, and as a system that can illustrate the fundamentals of RF (radio frequency) design to my students.”
Tosti-Lane was enthusiastic about Lectrosonics’ sound quality and performance characteristics—due in large part to the company’s legendary Digital Hybrid Wireless technology. “The Digital Hybrid system avoids companding,” he said, “and eliminates the need for pre-emphasis in the analog stage, which means we get excellent signal to noise without artifacts and without worrying about distortion with high frequency signals.”
While Cornish College of the Arts only took delivery of their Lectrosonics system in January the new equipment is already leaving its mark. “The system’s sound and performance has been terrific,” says Tosti-Lane. “While we’re starting with twelve channels, our plan is expand the system to twenty-four or thirty-six channels.”
