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AXXIS AUDIO
"great products and superior service"
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The Department of Defense Installations Section
The first section of this page is dedicated to the installations at...
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Fort Carson Colorado |
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The Post Field House Fort Carson |
January 1998 - Proposal submitted and accepted with contract awarded for the installation of what would become the new Post Field House sound system. The system would include speakers flown over the main floor, a 70 volt distributed system, and a rolling control rack (capable of driving the system from several different locations). The control rack contains a 16 channel mixer, equalizers for house and monitor speakers, 2 wireless microphone receivers, CD deck, cassette deck, AM/FM tuner, rack storage vault, power amplifiers, and a power sequencing system. Included is a 150' audio snake that allows microphone inputs to be put out to a number of locations throughout the house.
Miscellaneous system upgrades would be put in place over the course of the next several years including more distributed 70 volt speakers, additional hardwired distributed microphone inputs, improved cable TV wiring with hanging television mounts, a spin class sound system addition, and more.
Axxis Audio would be called on to provide audio production support on the new sound system for a variety of events beginning just after the system was put into operation. Events have included - All Army Trials, All Army Wrestling, Taekwondo demonstrations, Boxing Smokers, All Army Boxing, The Dave Schulz International Competition, and more.
Equipment Lines Installed - Mackie, DOD, Audio Technica, Crest, Melhart, Marantz Professional, Raxxess, One Power, CSI, Speco, Rapco, and Liberty.
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McKibben PFC Fort Carson |
April 1998 - Improved existing sound system to accommodate a WrestleMania to be shown in the gym. This required adding audio/video send and return jacks in the main gymnasium to interface with the satellite receivers, creating custom cabling to interface an audio mixer with the house sound system, hanging a large projection screen in the gym, setting up the sound, and doing the audio/video production for the event. Over the course of the next 12 months there would be several minor improvement put in place at McKibben PFC.
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The Outdoor Pool Fort Carson |
May 1998 - Proposal submitted and accepted for the installation of what would become the new Outdoor Pool sound system. The system would include a mixer/amplifier with priority override to automatically lower the music levels during announcements, microphone, AM/FM tuner, CD deck, an existing cassette deck, 4 speakers to the main pool area, 1 speaker to a covered eating area, a speaker to the main office, a speaker to the lifeguard office, with zone controls for the speakers.
Equipment Lines Installed - Audio Technica, Phillips, DOD, CSI, and Speco.
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Forrest PFC Fort Carson |
January 1998 - Proposal submitted and accepted for the installation of equipment to upgrade and repair an existing house sound system. The upgrades were to include a new carousel CD deck, dual well cassette deck, and the repair or replacement of a speaker zone control system. In November of 1998 additional upgrades would be put into place to allow greater flexibility for muting certain zones during paging or announcements.
November 1998 - Proposal submitted and accepted for the installation of equipment to upgrade and repair an existing aerobics class sound system. The aerobics class needed more sound than the existing speakers were capable of delivering. A set of large speakers were hung in the front of the room with the smaller speakers moved to the rear of the room for rear fill. A compressor/limiter was put into service along with a new UHF wireless system.
Equipment Lines Installed - Niles, Sony, JVC, Audio Technica, and Behringer equipment was interfaced with existing equipment lines (Gemini, STS, Bose, BGW, Onkyo, and more).
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The Sports Complex Fort Carson |
August 1998 - Proposal submitted and accepted with contract awarded for the upgrade of 4 of the 8 Sports Field sound systems. The idea was to utilize the existing speakers but put a mixer and other components into service that would be capable of sending sound to each of the 4 fields as needed. The system consists of a 16 channel 4 group mixer, 4 channels of equalization, CD deck, cassette deck, 2 wireless microphone systems, power conditioner, rack vault storage, amplifiers, and locking equipment rack. The mixer can be configured to route each of the score keepers microphones to their respective fields, route playback of the CD or cassette deck to any or all of the fields, route the wireless microphones to any or all of the fields, and more. Routing is accomplished with mixer channel assignment using the 4 subgroup masters as outputs to the 4 fields.
Axxis audio was called on to repair the 8 intercom systems that allow score keepers to talk to umpires, and to effect repairs on the other 4 Sports Field sound systems. Axxis Audio would be called on to provide audio production and support on the new system for softball tournaments to begin just after installation of the new system.
Equipment Lines Installed - Behringer, DOD, Audio Technica, Raxxess, Juice Goose, Marantz Professional, and Rapco components were interfaced with existing equipment (SoundCrafstman, and Atlas/Soundolier).
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Garcia PFC Fort Carson |
October 1998 - Minor sound system repairs and modifications as necessary. Ongoing service provided on an as needed basis.
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The Indoor Pool Fort Carson |
November 1998 - Added a carousel CD changer to the existing indoor pool sound system and performed minor wiring clean up. Rewired a light sensor for automatic light on/off system in the men's locker room entrance.
January 2000 - Proposal submitted and accepted for a pool side aquatics class sound system featuring the Hydrophonics completely submersible wireless headset microphone system. System includes a 6 channel powered mixer, CD deck, cassette deck, waterproof wireless microphone system, equipment rack, and speakers.
Equipment Lines Installed - Samson, Marantz, Phillips, Telex, Hydrophonics, Speco, Genz Benz, and Rapco.
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McMahon Auditorium Fort Carson |
December 1998 - Proposal submitted and accepted with contract awarded for upgrades and repairs to existing house sound system. Upgrades were to include removing a section of seats and construction of a sound booth, large front of house mixer, and more. The desire was to put in a 32 channel front of house mixing console, stereo front of house equalization, 4 monitor channels with equalization, CD deck, cassette deck, compressor/limiter, effects processor, additional amplifiers, rear fill speakers on a time delay to increase coverage to the back of the auditorium, hanging stage microphones, hanging stage monitors, floor microphones, and a power sequencing/management system. All of this was to interface with the existing permanently installed system and a larger portable system if the need should exist for an "in your face sound production". Ideally there could have been some automation involved to handle some of the switching but the budget only allowed for a patch bay approach to reconfigure the system as needed. The portable system was also reconfigured under a separate contract to clean up wiring problems, install a new electronic crossover, design and install a custom amplifier rack input/output wiring system, and generally make the system easier to set up, operate, and interface with the house system.
Axxis Audio would be called on to provide audio production and support on the new sound system for a variety of events beginning just after the system was put into operation to include a Black History month production called "I Have A Dream", a children's dance recital, a concert featuring the Sweet Adelines, a production of Babes in Toyland, and others. Axxis Audio is currently contracted through NAF to provide audio production for shows on an as needed basis.
February 2000 - 5 more Audio Technica wireless lapel microphone systems are added to the McMahon Auditorium sound system.
Equipment Lines Installed - Spirit by Soundcraft, DOD, Marantz Professional, Raxxess, Juice Goose, One Power, Rapco, Crest, OAP Audio, Audio Technica, Sabine, SKB, Liberty, and Genz Benz.
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Waller PFC Fort Carson |
April 1999 - Minor system upgrades and reconfiguration. Ongoing service provided on an as needed basis.
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Peterson Field Installations, Air Force Academy Installations, and more
Axxis Audio - P.O. Box 75613 - Colorado Springs, CO 80970-5613
719-638-8777 office 719-638-1877 fax 719-930-8147 cell
