Beckman Auditorium
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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.
Directions to Auditorium
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The
video display system consists of a Sanyo Model PLC-XF45 projector located
in a projection room to the rear of the auditorium. This projector
is capable 1024 x 768 uncompressed resolution and has a light output of
10,000 lumens.
Sanyo
PLC-XF45 manual.pdf |
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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.
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All
inputs and outputs are connected through patchbays to allow extensive
adaptation of the system to differing needs of presenters |
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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. |
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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.
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The
microphones function anywhere in the auditorium, allowing sound pick-up
from within the audience.
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Up
to five additional hard-wired microphones can also be utilized on the
stage.
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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.
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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.
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slides
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Room
Reservation Form
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