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I can't say for certain, since it's been almost two months since I've been in the building...but the Gate City signs are on chain motors and are able to be raised up behind the previous scoreboards. Like during the offseason, they're usually tucked up out of sight
Just an FYI- I there has been a lot of verbiage saying that they will "replace" the corner video boards with HD boards, but the assumption was that they will either be the same size or smaller... The daktronics article tells us they will actually be BIGGER by quite a bit!
The new corner board dimensions will be 20x22ft. A quick look at the fargodome page on gobison.com, the existing boards are exactly, or very close to 16x16 ft.
For those of you doing math at home....
20x22= 440 sq ft
16x16= 256 sq ft
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Difference= 184 sq ft bigger PER VIDEO BOARD!
Get pumped- we're adding 736 sq ft of video board with the corners ALONE.
Another 5800 sq ft when including the ends one boards.
Damn Daniel
And the 4 ribbon boards are 33' x 3 each which is about 400 square feet
And the boards on the back of the huge boards are 11.5 feet high by 24 feet which is another 552 square feet.
So all in all we are adding 7,650 feet of LED Video boards, not including the new marquee or the portable board
The dome was nuts before. Now it's just sensory overload!
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Anybody else think the speakers should be replaced as well...to complement the new amazing video boards...
I just think when the drums start up after the intro riff to thunderstruck, I would love to hear the thump of the drums...you can hardly hear when the drums come in with the current setup but I think that is the part of the song that should stick out the most...
What a great time to upgrade the sound as well not? Just my two cents and no this probably won't be the last time I bring this up...
I think the sound quality depends on how the system is being fed. For example, when I just feed the FargoDome sound system with a simple 3.5 mm to RCA hook-up from my iPod, the backtracks of songs are noticeably gone or diminished, especially ones involving AC/DC. When I finally get my set-up completed and have all my devices running through my audio multi-mixer, both tracks can be heard and sounds like the system is playing in stereo despite mono being the only possibility.
Hail the BISON!!!
Can confirm - installed the motors myself. GCBF branding signs are on motors to be sucked up behind the scoreboards as the branding is for football only. They'll also lower to the floor for work.
As for size, based off some careful eyeball estimations I think the rendering is real close. The championship banners are right about 30' long.
I just don't know that a system designed to provide crowd PA is ever going to give a 'feel it in your pants' bass hit in a building full of 18,000 yelling people.... IMO.