MadisonAV Audio Kits

Integrators who fit out school, church and community halls can now order a complete, acoustically modelled PA system under a single order code. MadisonAV today announced its Multipurpose Hall Audio Kits, a range of seven JBL and Crown loudspeaker-and-amplifier packages sized to half-court, one-court and twin-court halls, with an optional DSP and control kit that arrives programmed and bench-tested. The range is available now from madisonav.com.au/multipurpose-hall-kits.

It’s common for a multipurpose hall to a basketball court at nine, an assembly at ten and a concert on Friday night. Hard floors, long reverb and a stage at one end make it one of the most demanding rooms an integrator meets, and one of the most common. Most halls end up with a system that was quoted rather than designed, and a DSP that somebody still has to program on site.

The Multipurpose Hall Audio Kits are MadisonAV’s answer to three recurring problems: design time that can’t be billed, DSP programming that nobody has hours for, and rooms that are loud but still hard to understand. Each kit has been engineered once, so the fourth hall sounds like the first.

Every kit includes JBL loudspeakers selected for the room’s coverage, projection and speech intelligibility, matched Crown amplification with real headroom, and all suspension hardware and brackets, so nothing is missed on the quote. Fitness-for-purpose modelling and coverage maps are supplied with every kit, designed to AETM recommendations for educational spaces, so an integrator can show a client or consultant how the room will perform before a single loudspeaker is hung. Loudspeaker cable is specified for each kit and ordered separately.

The range

Integrators start with the room size, then choose the job the system has to do: assembly for speech-first rooms, performance where live music and playback matter, and premium where a VRX line array is called for.

Because every kit was modelled on basketball-court dimensions, the same hardware and programming carry across school and community halls, churches, civic halls, regional theatres and small performance venues. Where a floor isn’t roughly a court, MadisonAV’s Technical Sales Support Team reviews the room and advises which kit to use and what to add. Subwoofer, front fill and DSP kits bolt onto the same design, so an integrator can upsell without a redesign.

DSP01: commissioning in hours, not days

The optional DSP01 kit addresses the step that most often blows out a hall project. Its BSS BLU100 12×8 processor ships programmed to MadisonAV’s standard hall template and bench-tested, with EC8BV and EC4BV wall controllers already mapped, and a Netgear PoE switch included. On site, the MadisonAV BSS Commission App finds the processor on the network and presents only the basic settings an installer needs: input levels, house, delay and sub outputs, and basic EQ, on one screen. A handover document is generated once commissioning is complete.

MadisonAV estimates this removes six to eight hours of labour per room compared with programming a BSS processor from scratch in Audio Architect, with no proprietary software training required. For deeper changes, advanced settings can be revealed in the app, and the BLU100 remains fully editable in Audio Architect. DSP01 suits every kit from PA01 to PA09 and is recommended wherever delay positions are in play.

“Halls can be challenging, and many integrators deploy one at least every few months,” said Benjamin Page, National Audio Business Development Manager, MadisonAV. “We’ve done the modelling, matched the amplification, included the brackets and pre-programmed the DSP, so the integrator’s time goes into hanging and handing over – rather than redrawing the same room. One order code quotes the whole system in minutes, and the kit commissions in a day.”

Availability

Multipurpose Hall Audio Kits PA01 to PA09 and DSP01 are available now and held in stock at MadisonAV distribution centres across Australia, with every DSP01 kit pre-loaded before it ships. Kit contents, coverage modelling, technical documents and the MadisonAV BSS Commission App are published at madisonav.com.au/multipurpose-hall-kits. Integrators and consultants can request a quote on the page or speak with the MadisonAV team on 1800 00 77 80.