VIVACE Acoustics

Sara Cultural centre is one of the tallest timber buildings in the world. Including a new premium concert hall, this building involving a hotel and will become Skellefteås new hub for art, concerts, shows, meetings and congresses

SARA concert hall has a capacity of 1200 seats. In autumn 2021 Audico AB installed a

M-BBM VIVACE 64 room acoustic enhancement system. 83 loudspeakers and 38 microphones are mounted visually discrete and if possible hidden in architecture.

8 acoustic settings are tuned for several room types serving ideal acoustic for different types of performances. The system also offer a Voice lift system.

Measurements

On/Off

This preset (green) repair lack of mids and highs in the hall. Red lines = system is off

8 Presets

In addition to a Voice Lift setting it was tuned 8 different presets from 1,4s to 2,5s reverberation time

5. preset

More energy is generated into the room causing more livenes, reverberation and spaceioussnes. Notice the close corolation between EDT and RT30 values.

System Off

The halls acoustics without enhancement

Visually, discrete placements of loudspeakers and microphones are another important aspect of a successful VIVACE installation. When possible, speakers were hidden in the construction as shown in pictures.