Completed in January 2016, the Hynes Centre is a 15,000 square foot multi-purpose
venue located in the Llano Grande Lake Park Resort. Although many touring artists
carry a full sound system, the Hynes Centre chose to install its own, permanent
system, based on Alcons line arrays, insuring consistently high-quality audio for its
concerts and other events. The system saw its first use for an Oak Ridge Boys
three-night concert series in January.

Ziwa Corporation, a design/build construction company in Brownsville, Texas,
constructed the Hynes Centre. Ziwa Project Development Manager Scott Shull
contacted the Oak Ridge Boys to discuss their audio needs. FOH engineer Marko
Hunt recommended Alcons line arrays and Shull retained integrator, Third Street
R&D, of Hollister, Missouri, to design and install an Alcons system for the Hynes
Centre.

Greg Carttar, Third Street R&D’s owner, used nine Alcons LR7/90 Micro Line-Array
modules per side supplemented by four BF302 mkll double 15′ subwoofers under
the stage. The line arrays are mirror-imaged with the ribbons on the outside for
beneficial side-wall reflections and the arrays are aimed downwards slightly to
minimize rear-wall echoes. Two Alcons Sentinel 10 Amplified Loudspeaker
Controllers provide a total of twenty kilowatts of power along with DSP pre-sets for
the loudspeakers.

After the concert, FOH engineer Hunt said this about the Alcons system, “Before the
show, I walked the room and immediately noticed a lack of phase shift in the high
end or any hump in the mid-range. The soundstage was very wide and the
frequency response maintained well at the horizontal extremes. Highs and mids
were smooth and excellent to the back of the room. This blew away even my
previous experience with ribbon drivers.’

Hunt continued, “The real test of the system came at showtime and I was not
disappointed. The Oak Ridge Boys have a six-piece band with a slamming drummer,
solid bass player, lead and steel guitars and an acoustic player and keyboardist. In
front is the legendary Oak Ridge Boys quartet doing featuring the extraordinary
bass voice of Richard Sterban. I have mixed these guys on the largest rig and the
worst junk, but last night was good from the go. With very minute EQ changes I had
a solid drum and bass foundation, body in the voices and great definition on all the
players. And when the bass singer hit his first solo note the crowd came unglued
yet he sat clearly in the mix with the other guys, another test of a good system.’