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The Mullins Center — which is managed by Global Spectrum, a private venue management firm that oversees more than 100 venues worldwide — is home to UMass Amherst’s Minutemen basketball and ice hockey and Minutewomen basketball teams. The arena also hosts concerts and other events, as well as productions by a variety of UMass departments.

The Mullins Center’s new QSC system was designed by Acentech and installed by North American Theatrix, working with McPhee Electric. According to Scott Jordan, Consultant in Acentech’s Audiovisual Systems Group, he was initially considering a different manufacturer : “We had some initial ideas on which direction we wanted to go with this design, based on the client’s requests. We had another manufacturer’s product in mind that we have used before. However we were limited in the locations available to put new loudspeakers. Getting further into the design, I created a model of the space in EASE (3D modeling/loudspeaker prediction software), and quickly discovered that our initial choice was not going to work. We needed more loudspeakers to obtain the coverage, but even doubling up our initial choice would not give us the coverage we ultimately needed. It would also exceed the given budget for this project by almost double.”

Jordan continues, “ So the hunt was out to find a loudspeaker that would give us the necessary wide vertical coverage required, keep the weight in check, and most importantly fit within our budget. At this point I took a look at the QSC ILA product, having been familiar other QSC products prior. Once the loudspeakers were put in the model in EASE, it was clear these enclosures would do what I needed them to do. The price point on these also allowed us to add those additional enclosures while staying well within our original budget.”

Pat Nelson, Director of Projects, North American Theatrix, also worked up an EASE Focus model, in consultation with QSC Audio, and confirmed Jordan’s findings. Both predictions were right on the money. “Probably the most rewarding part of this project was when we first fired up the QSC system — it sounded amazing right out of the box,” reports Nelson. “There wasn't a whole lot of work that we ended up doing because it just worked as predicted.” And Jordan adds, “Pat grabbed a co-worker and me when we were going in to test the system. He said, ‘You guys have got to hear this!’ It was genuine excitement.”

The ILA System is distributed in eight arrays around the sports arena, three on each side and one in each end zone, as well as three arrays covering the floor “They're flown directly above the first row of seats,” Jordan reports. “The distance down to the first row of seats is about the same as the distance to the last row, so coverage is very consistent throughout the entire facility. ”

As for intelligibility, he says, “It's a concrete hockey rink and we're getting STI levels of 0.54 or better -that's considered good to very good, and well within what we expected.” There is no shortage of output, either,” he says. “We achieved 112 dB, and we still had headroom in the system.”

The new system also includes a Yamaha LS932 digital mixing console fitted with CobraNet output cards feeding two Q-Sys Core 250i processors installed 400 feet away in the gridwork high above the floor alongside the PL340 amplifiers. Greg Downing here at NAT was instrumental in doing all of the programming for the system with Q-Sys.  “The Q-Sys feeds are sent to the amplifiers through DataPort, so everything is digital all the way to the amps,” says Nelson. “We've used the Q-Sys Core 1000 in other arenas in the past, but this was our first time using rthe Core 250i. We got some of the first units to be produced.”

“We have an I/O Frame down in an existing amp room that's providing a couple of local inputs and outputs” adds Jordan. “There are still some legacy audio systems in place in Mullins for the concourse and other public areas we didn’t change, and it was important to have a DSP system in place that could expand as necessary to allow for those eventual upgrades.”

Don’t quote me on that.

1. Yes, this is exactly how the Stars hockey.

And follow up:

This is actually almost exactly what Stars hockey is like in general, even without all the kids in the line up. The Stars model has been high event hockey for a couple of seasons now. It’s one of the reasons that people that like fun games like watching the Stars, even if they aren’t necessarily Stars fans. It’s one of the reasons that people pull for the Stars to do well, so more teams will emulate our style.

I know it’s stressful as heck as a fan to watch, but all of those near misses, close scoring chances, and goals are really fun for people who are not biting their nails to the quick to watch.

So be grateful, I guess? And also take a few deep breaths. We’ll get through this together.

2. Jim Nill, actual wizard?

I have never in my life envied the job of a general manager in any professional sports league. It seems to be pretty thankless, people steal your glory a lot (just look at Dale Tallon and Stan Bowman in Chicago), and everyone thinks they could do the job better than you.

Sure, Jim Nill has made some weird choices, our goaltending situation being chief among them. But I’m pretty confident in saying he’s done the best he can with the situation he’s been given. And in some cases, the best he can is really pretty great. Even if you look past the actual star players he’s managed to convince to come to the Stars, you’ve got depth guys like Patrick Eaves and Lauri Korpikoski who Nill signs for a song that end up being such solid depth guys. Who’d have thought? Lauri Korpikoski, top line right winger, on a two game goal streak.

Yes, I’ve decided two is a streak.

3. Enough to make you believe in the hockey gods

This was another game the Stars could have easily lost. At 5v5, only four players were above 50% corsi for: the second line of Antoine Roussel, Tyler Seguin, and Patrick Eaves, and Jordie Benn. By contrast, only 5 players on Edmonton’s team were under 50%.

That stat in Owen Newkirk’s tweet, where we lead the game in blocked shots? That’s because we hardly ever had the puck, friends. The other team has to have the puck before you can block it.

The only other stat we lead in (other than, you know, the score) is Newkirk’s unofficial quality scoring chance count, or the pucks shot right in front of the net. (Unofficial because this isn’t something the NHL tracks, but something he counts himself.) The quality scoring chances against are a) because Kari Lehtonen gave up a lot of rebounds tonight b) because our defense doesn’t really keep people out of the high danger areas and c) because it’s Connor McDavid’s team.

4. It’s been a ruff season.

This is how you can tell it’s been a tough season so far: 15 games in, we have finally strung together two wins in a row for the world’s babiest streak. This is how you can tell people have it worse than we do: we’re currently in a play off spot again.

But don’t scare it or it might run away.

5. Puns will be the death of me.

With his two assists tonight, Jamie Benn moves into sixth place in all time assists for the Dallas Stars, tied with Daryl Sydor. He’s got a ways to go to get the number one spot, but second seems pretty attainable. Maybe. We’ll see how this season goes.

6. And finally, this.