From the rodeo to the Harlem Globetrotters to Disney on Ice Fleet Farm Arena, formerly Gateway Arena, at Sioux City's Tyson Events Center is a busy and versatile place. With a range of concerts, family shows, corporate events, and sports—lots of sports, including 30 Sioux City Musketeers ice hockey home games each year, plus half a dozen Bandits indoor football games—needed a modernized sound system that supported many different types of shows. L-Acoustics A Series was the ideal solution.
Although Tyson Events Center has been successfully entertaining countless visitors over the past two decades, the performance of the arena’s original sound system had slowed for some time and needed a serious refresh. “Installed when the building was constructed in 2003, their distributed point source system had multiple failing components—both in the drivers and amps—so intelligibility was lacking and the volume was being pushed to compensate, which wasn’t good,” said Matt Bauer, senior integration project manager at Denver-based Brown Note Productions (BNP). “It was time for something new.”
