Beckman Auditorium
The Beckman Auditorium is a 220 seat facility designed for major lectures and colloquia and serves as the site of plenary sessions for conferences and workshops. Additionally, a large meeting room adjacent to the auditorium is capable of hosting overflow from the Auditorium and is connected to the audio and video display systems of the Auditorium.
Recently the audio and video systems have been replaced with equipment designed to enhance the quality of modern presentations.
The video display system consists of a Sanyo Model PLC-HF10000L projector located in a projection room to the rear of the auditorium. This projector is capable 1920x1080 uncompressed resolution and has a light output of 10,000 lumens.
A standard HD15 male connector is provided on the stage to connect to laptops capable of VGA graphics output. Additionally, composite NTSC video or several formats of component video can be displayed, again from connectors available on the stage.
All
inputs and outputs are connected through patchbays to allow extensive
adaptation of the system
to differing needs of presenters
The
heart of the audio system in the auditorium is a Mackie 24/8 audio
console. It is capable of accepting 24 audio inputs, has eight submaster
outputs, a program output to feed the record
inputs of various recording
media, and a control room monitoring output.
The
primary audio feeds into the Mackie are from four Sony wireless microphone
systems. These
four feeds can be any combination of hand-held or lavalier
microphones.
The microphones function anywhere in the auditorium, allowing sound pick-up from within the audience.
Up to five additional hard-wired microphones can also be utilized on the stage.
Four corner-mounted Genelec 1032A powered speakers provide localized sonification, adding depth to a conventional ElectoVoice auditorium horn array. Recording of presentations is possible on DAT or cassette tape
Two channels of computer, VCR or other line-level audio can be sent to the Mackie from connectors on the stage. A Digital Audio Tape (DAT) player/recorder, dual cassette player/recorder, Digital Video Tape (DVD) player and Compact Disk (CD) player are located in the projection room for audio enhancement/recording.
