In full swing the precinct still sounds like a race park, with the familiar sonic signature of late reflections from the acres of coverage. “Audio coverage is within ☒dB across the whole site,” according to Adrian Davis. For the wide-open outdoor spaces the evergreen public address horn (from Australian Monitor) reigns supreme. The new system is a sophisticated networked audio setup relying on Dante for signal transport to distributed Australian Monitor (low impedance) and QSC (100V line) power amps, then onto One Systems surfacemount loudspeakers - predominantly ONE.SP8 eight+one-inch coax enclosures, including weatherproof models for the grandstands and other outdoor areas. ![]() V8s are loud and the Park was driving their amps into distortion in an attempt to be heard over the engine noise, which only made things worse. “It was just noise rather than spoken word. “The audio prior to the upgrade was terrible,” explain Adrian Davis. The Nions direct traffic and provide processing for an extensive multi-zone, multi-prioritised (six levels, in fact) public address, EVAC and commentary system that covers every possible patch in the park that might have people watching or working. I think we were the only crew willing to do the Media Matrix programming.” Adrian Davis: “The Sydney Motorsport Park staff are familiar with the operation of Nion and that was a non-negotiable part of the hard-scope tender. Brad and Adrian put the success of their bid largely down to a willingness to repurpose the two ageing Peavey Media Matrix Nion DSPs. The Avit Group was invited to submit a tender and won the job. Speaking of the ‘Silent BDM’, Cameron Crick wasn’t quite so silent when he heard that the ARDC (Australian Racing Drivers’ Club) was planning on upgrading its public address and audiovisual facilities at Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek, Sydney. It’s almost like: ‘if you’re big enough to have your own race car, then you’re big enough to take on this project!” “It’s got us over the line with people who know we’re competent and skilled enough but weren’t convinced our business had enough runs on the board to be a totally safe pair of hands.” “And then: ‘by the way, we’ve got this project we want to talk to you about’.” “We had people in the industry ringing me during a televised race in disbelief: ‘I had no idea you were sponsoring V8s!’ “But our sponsorship of Cameron Crick has been a great strategic move.” ![]() I’ve never paid attention to motorsport,” confirms Avit Group’s Senior BDM Adrian Davis. “No, I wasn’t a fan of motorsport,” Brad confesses. ‘The vicarious fantasy of a frustrated revhead fulfilled’, you might say. The Avit Group’s sponsorship isn’t some kind of postage stamp on his helmet, it’s a principal sponsorship - Avit has the biggest sticker on the side of car… if you saw this car for the first time, you’d say it’s the Avit car. So we worked out a sponsorship deal.”Ĭameron Crick races in the V8 Super 2 circuit, in the Eggleston Motorsport team. He shared our values and we just wanted to find a way of helping him. “One of our guys introduced us to Cameron, who was trying to make his way in V8 motorsports, and I was really impressed with this young man. Or, to be even more precise, it started with the friend of a race car driver who introduced the race car driver to a director of the The Avit Group, Brad Magri. ![]() Or more precisely, it started with a race car driver - Cameron Crick.
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