Audio files are played via QLab software by Figure53 and routed through a Dante audio network using Dante Virtual Soundcard by Audinate. Clegg Sound built custom Qlab show files specifically designed for Haunted Overload's usage, keeping content onscreen organized and easy to follow. A Yamaha TF-Rack digital mixer is used to do the mixing/matrixing to Yamaha PX series amplifiers. The amps then feed Yamaha Speakers and QSC subwoofers which are strategically placed throughout the attraction to create different "zones" of audio. The system is equipped with WiFi capabilities to allow for remote level adjustment throughout the attraction wirelessly via an Apple iPad or similar device.

Speakers & subwoofers are all fed via thousands of feet of direct burial grade, multi conductor speaker wire terminated to weather proof conduit boxes with NL4 SpeakON connections that are strategically mounted throughout the attraction. Having a disconnection point between the boxes and the speakers makes them easy to disconnect and bring indoors for the offseason.

This system is fully scalable up to 64 independent zones of ambient and/or triggered audio playback. This would not be possible without our custom, organized infrastructure and custom designed/built equipment racks. The Dante networking and playback computers feature fully redundant Primary and Secondary independent networks to ensure that in the event of a failure, no sound is lost. 

Bringing an unmatched level of production value to this themed attraction was a fun and rewarding project for Clegg Sound Associates. We can't wait to work more with Haunted Overload and other themed attractions in the future to develop custom solutions that are reliable, scalable, integrated, and automated.

“The Whit” as UNH students refer to it, is the 7,500-seat ice rink home to the legendary UNH men’s and women’s hockey teams. In the past, arrays were outsourced and sub-rented by Clegg Sound for this event. However, this year Clegg Sound deployed their own NEXO GEO M6 tangent arrays as mains for the event. The hangs consisted of eight 120º modules over four 80º modules per side, totalling 24 M6 array modules. Four NEXO LS-18 subwoofers were ground stacked (two per side) to fill out the bottom end, and four NEXO PS-10 speakers were deployed on the ground as side fill speakers. Six NEXO ID-24 speakers in a 40º x 120º orientation were deployed evenly across the front of the stage as front fills.


Clegg Sound owner/founder, Dean Clegg, designed the system using CAD modeling and NEXO NS-1 modeling software. “NS-1 has proven to be extremely accurate time and time again,” states Clegg. “Whatever it shows, is what you get upon actually deploying the rig.”
Perhaps the most impressive thing about this system was the size and weight according to Clegg Sound’s Production Manager/Systems Technician, George Farrow III. “We were able to hang each array with just a single point and a ¼ ton motor; something you can’t find anywhere else. Not to mention, we did not even come close to the ¼ weight limit, with 12 boxes, that’s just amazing! It made the riggers quite happy as well. In addition to being very light, the arrays are very small. They blended into the background very nicely, and were by no means obtrusive to any sight lines.”


As for the sound itself, Farrow said, “it was great, with excellent sound pressure levels throughout the room, and fantastic clarity. The subwoofers did a nice job of filling out the bottom end of some deeper voices, and helped the brass quintet get a little more effectiveness out of their low brass instruments.”

Clegg Sound, a long-time NEXO dealer, recommended a 12-speaker NEXO GEO M620 line array system, three 4x1 NXAmps : one was used for the line array, one for two LS-18 subs, and one for four PS10 stage monitors. Three NEXO ID24 speakers were used for rear ballroom fill, powered by a single amp channel, and processed with a NEXO DTD controller.
"We chose the GEO M620 for the Radisson event because of its high quality sound and control. Nothing sounds as natural to my ear as NEXO, states Dean Clegg, owner of Clegg Sound. We are in the event business, and so many of our clients need powerful, coherent quality audio and appreciate great sounding mixes. We don't necessarily need to be super loud, just good at around the SPL levels that M6 speakers are ideally suited."
A team from Malloy Events visited Clegg Sound for a demo prior to the event, in which a six-speaker M6 system over two LS18s was set up for listening. "They loved it, and loved the small, discreet size even more," says Clegg.
"I'm very familiar with the sound of NEXO GEO products and LOVE it, Clegg adds. I've done many concerts with GEO S8s and CD12s, installed an S8 system at New Life Church in Biddeford, Maine, and a GEO S12 system with NX4X4 amps at the Prescott Park Arts Festival in nearby Portsmouth, NH."
Clegg said his company uses NS-1 software and finds it very helpful when designing systems. "The M620s are 20 degrees vertical, so they are a little more forgiving than what we are used to with GEO S8s (5 degrees vertical) and, where the S8 could get louder, the M6 does not lose any quality whatsoever.