Paramount Centre for the Performing Arts in Peekskill, NY has installed Adamson SpekTrix speakers. Originally built as a 1500-seat movie palace a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, the Peekskill Paramount Theatre first opened its doors with great fanfare on June 27, 1930. The Inaugural program featured an overture by the Paramount Symphony Orchestra, an appearance by the village mayor, and “A Paramount All-Talking Picture”, The Big Pond.
The Paramount prospered for decades despite the Depression and World War II. However, it was the advent of shopping malls and television that brought on its demise as a movie theatre. Paramount sold the building in 1973.
The Paramount’s stage is a “modified thrust.” The original stage was just 13 feet deep. In the late 1970’s, a thrust stage was added in front of the original. A series of major renovations and a historic restoration project have been completed over the past three years. Presently the total seating sits at 1024 in 2 levels of orchestra seating and a balcony.
Today the non-profit Paramount Centre for the Arts operates as a year-round multidisciplinary centre for the arts, with live performances, arts-in-education programs, films, and visual art exhibitions.
Technical upgrades to the theatre include a brand new speaker system and a mixing console.
The speaker systems is a flexible 2 in 1 set-up. The L and R main arrays consist of 12 Adamson SpekTrix and 2 Adamson SpekTrix Sub enclosures per side. There are also 5 Adamson CB1 near fills present. The operating options are a Stereo 4-way with near fills, and a Stereo 3-way with subs being fed by their own signal with near fills, as a secondary option. The system is powered by Lab.gruppen amplifiers and XTA DP6-i processors, a 24-channel Allen & Heath GL2400 sits at front of house.
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