The Eden Project in Cornwall has been wowing families during their summer holidays by hosting a mission to Mars, mini-golf on Mercury and a daring slide down the surface of a moon.<\/strong> The Eden Project in Cornwall has been wowing families during their summer holidays by hosting a mission to Mars, mini-golf on Mercury and a daring slide down the surface of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nRunning for six weeks, Expedition Space<\/strong><\/a> is an all-new programme of intergalactic activities that has been taking place across Eden,<\/strong> giving visitors an \u201cextra-terrestrial holiday\u201d including planet-hopping, meeting alien friends and enjoying out-of-this-world fun such as moon buggy driving and virtual reality experiences.
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\nEnhancing the sonic realism of this trip around the Solar System has been a series of Martin Audio<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s hugely popular CDD-WR<\/strong><\/a> (Coaxial Differential Dispersion) weatherproof loudspeakers, including 15 pairs<\/strong> of CDD6-WR<\/strong><\/a> and a pair of CDD5-WR<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 all driven by just a pair of Martin Audio<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s multi-channel iKON iK81<\/a> 8-channel Class D amplifiers<\/strong>.
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\nSaid Eden Project Facilities Technician Jonathan Stamp<\/strong>, who was also technical designer on the Expedition Space<\/strong><\/a> project: \u201cThe CDD Series<\/strong><\/a> was selected as it covered everything we needed from the system. The key point was to have a high quality, compact, full-range box that produced even dispersion to our audience \u2014
\nand the CDD Series<\/strong><\/a> does that extremely well.\u201d
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\nThe spaces include: Departure Lounge (4 x CDD6-WR<\/a><\/strong>); Spaceship Take-off Pod (4 x CDD6-WR<\/a><\/strong>); Moon Deck (8 x CDD6-WR<\/a><\/strong>); Universe Tour (6 x CDD6-WR<\/a><\/strong>); Spaceship Landing (4 x CDD6-WR<\/a><\/strong>); Mars Tunnel (2 x CDD5-WR<\/a><\/strong>) and Mars Viewing Pod (4 x CDD6-WR<\/a><\/strong>). Each zone has its own sound track, triggered in real time by actors through BrightSign<\/a> players<\/strong> and QLab software.<\/strong> These are used to reproduce sound effects (such as space ship engines, warp speed), voice-overs (live actors and pre-recorded messages) and audio tracks to contribute to an immersive theatre piece.
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\nJonathan Stamp<\/strong> says that the immersive experience has been greatly enhanced by the sound effects, and adds that once Expedition Space<\/strong><\/a> terminates at the beginning of September, the CDD-WR<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s will be redeployed on future Eden Project<\/strong> productions.
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