Bounce! Trampoline Sports® is a franchised entertainment complex geared toward
young adults and children of all ages. With specialized spaces for trampoline
basketball, dodgeball (using a soft foam ball), a foam pit you can leap into, and one
of the largest trampolines in the USA, it’s a fun workout for 20-somethings and a
great way for kids to burn energy. The Bounce! facility in Danbury, Connecticut,
also offers five private party rooms that are rented out for birthdays and other
events. Each space in the 40,000-square-foot facility requires a high quality and
flexible sound system for background music and announcements.
“To meet Bounce!’s requirements for their Danbury complex, we needed to design a
system with powerful capabilities across multiple zones and very serious digital
signal input processing,” recalls Senior Designer Leo Garrison of A/V systems
integrator Metro Sound Pros. “We based the system on a Symetrix Radius 12×8 EX
DSP with an xOut 12 Dante-enabled analogue output expander, which provided a
very cost-effective way to achieve the inputs and outputs required for the facility.”
“Symetrix DSP products provide transparent equalization, dynamics control, and a
very simplified end user interface,” notes Cardone, Solomon & Associates regional
sales manager Rich Trombitas. “These features are essential for a sound system in
a high-quality indoor recreational facility like Bounce!”
Symetrix’ Radius 12×8 EX is a powerful, efficient DSP that features a configurable
input/output option card slot, 64×64 Dante™, 12 analogue mic/line inputs, and 8
analogue outputs, making it a popular choice for a wide variety of applications. With
the xOut 12, the Radius-based system Garrison designed for the Danbury Bounce!
complex provided an additional 12 analogue outputs.
Five Symetrix ARC-2e single-gang wall panels provide menu-driven remote control
for the Radius EX. Each ARC-2e offers an 8-character backlit display and can control
multiple basic functions or complex logic-based events, including volume, pre-sets,
source selection, room combining, and more. The three buttons navigate among up
to 24 menus, adjust parameters, and enable or disable the wall panel.
Programming the Radius DSP was straightforward, thanks to Symetrix’ Composer
software for Windows, which is the front end for Symetrix Radius, Prism, Edge, and
Solus NX DSPs. “The Symetrix Composer software dramatically simplified the
creation of pre-sets to accommodate the Danbury facility’s needs,” Garrison states.
“Composer is open architecture, so were able to program any audio signal routings,
DSP modules, and control-signal processing we needed.”
The new Radius-driven sound system has been a big success. “With the Symetrix
Radius DSP, we were able to hit all of the client’s goals and accommodated all of
their needs for the Danbury facility. They are very pleased,” reports Garrison.
“Indoor recreational facilities are a growing phenomenon across the northeast, so
we are doing an increasing number of projects like this,” adds Trombitas. “When we
specify those systems, we’ll continue to rely on Symetrix DSPs.”
