Clearwing Systems Integration

Owner:

ASU

Architect:

none

General Contractor:

none

Client:

Ron Klaus Audio Visual Resources

Scope Of Work

Clearwing Productions was contracted by Audio Video Resources (AVR) to assist 
them with the audio system overhaul at ASU’s Wells Fargo Arena. The six story 
tall arena is used for basketball games, concerts, assemblies and graduations. 
Over its nearly forty years of service, the Wells Fargo arena has had several sound 
reinforcement systems, all of which lacked power and were unintelligible to one 
degree or another. The new system needed to cover all of the 14,000 seats, 
providing impeccable intelligent reproduction of the audio source throughout.

After consulting with the ASU Athletics Department, a new system centered on 
Danley Sound Labs full-range loudspeakers and subwoofers, and powered by Lab 
Gruppen amplifiers, were chosen. The solution consisted of twelve arrays, along with 
a delay ring of ten individual speakers to cover the area around the stadium banners 
and three down-firing cabinets for the court. The engineers at Danley Sound Labs 
designed the system in consultation with Anthony James Partners’, Director of Audio 
Engineering, Larry Lucas.

Clearwing removed the existing amplifiers, speakers, rigging, processing and the 
abandoned front of house gear. Installation of the speakers then proceeded after 
all engineered mounting hardware was installed. In order to do this, three hundred 
sheets of plywood were laid out to protect the floor from two 80’ articulated boom 
lifts that were needed to access the low steel. The Clearwing team provided the 
structural engineering, coordinated all riggers, electricians and installers, placed 
speakers and ran new conduit for signal wire from the existing amplifier room to the 
new speaker locations.