Meyer Sound News : Meyer Sound's New UPQ-1P Loudspeaker, Awards in Sound Achievement and Architecture Share Top Billing at USITT

Meyer Sound's New UPQ-1P Loudspeaker, Awards in Sound Achievement and Architecture Share Top Billing at USITT

USITT
George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston, Texas

Conference: Mar 20 – 22
Booth 610
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Meyer Sound's leadership in theatre technology will be demonstrated when USITT convenes in Houston on March 20-22. Making its American debut is the new self-powered UPQ-1P wide coverage loudspeaker, the company's latest product that is sure to find its place in theatrical productions and installations. Off the exhibit floor, company co-founders John and Helen Meyer will be presented with the Distinguished Achievement in Sound Award, while its Berkeley headquarters' Pearson Theatre will be honored with a USITT Architecture Merit Award.

UPQ-1P
Wide Coverage Loudspeaker

The new UPQ-1P loudspeaker will claim the spotlight at Meyer Sound's booth. The latest addition to the company's famed UltraSeries of loudspeaker products, UPQ-1P demonstrates the same consistent and smooth sonic signature of Meyer Sound products found in an impressive list of theatrical productions as well as live performance venue and nightclub installations. UPQ-1P delivers a robust peak power output of 136 dB SPL with low distortion while offering flexible rigging options, wide vertical coverage and gradual off-axis rolloff to accommodate a range of installation requirements.

Other loudspeakers at the Meyer Sound stand will include the recently introduced self-powered MM-4XP miniature loudspeaker, the UPJunior VariO loudspeaker, and the powerful yet petite M'elodie and M1D line array loudspeakers. Visitors can also witness the power of the Galileo loudspeaker management system and the extremely versatile Matrix3 audio show control system. Complete with SpaceMap multichannel surround panning and Wild Tracks hard disk playback, Matrix3 is a popular tool among the industry's leading sound designers and is used in numerous Cirque du Soleil® productions.

MM-4XP
Self-Powered Miniature
Loudspeaker

At an awards banquet on Saturday March 22, company co-founders John and Helen Meyer will be presented with the Distinguished Achievement Award. Since founding the company in 1979, the Meyers have been personally involved with the performing arts, which has driven the development of award-winning products used widely in Broadway musicals and sold-out themed spectacles worldwide. An example of this is the UPA loudspeaker, first released in 1980 and still sells in significant quantities today.

Helen and John Meyer and the Pearson Theater

The Pearson Theater
Architecture
Merit Award

John and Helen Meyer
Distinguished
Achievement Award

At the same event, architects Marcy Wong and Donn Logan will be recognized with a USITT Architecture Merit Award for their work on Meyer Sound's Pearson Theatre. Outfitted with the groundbreaking Constellation electroacoustic architecture, Meyer Sound's 67-seat resident theatre represents a new approach to designing multiuse spaces. The Pearson Theatre provides optimal acoustics for a diverse range of events including movie screenings, musical presentations and professional audio seminars as part of Meyer Sound's worldwide education program.

Sound designers and theater sound technicians who are looking to expand their understanding of theoretical concepts and "real world" implementation of audio principles will have the opportunity to attend Meyer Sound's seminars near USITT before the convention opens: Fundamentals of System Design, Implementation, and Optimization seminar on March 17-18 and MAPP Online Pro acoustical prediction program applications seminar on March 19. Additional details are available on www.meyersound.com/education.

Participants of USITT events will witness Meyer Sound's leadership in sound technology at the official convention hotel, Hilton Americas, where more than 300 Meyer Sound UPM-1P loudspeakers are permanently installed, along with 30 M1D-Sub subwoofers. Other nearby venues in Houston installed with Meyer Sound systems include Church in the Heights, Pasadena High School and Sam Rayburn High School, as well as the Westfield High School, which relies on a Meyer Sound Constellation system to deliver a broad range of acoustic, classical and spoken word presentations.

May, 2008

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