d b audiotechnik Venue Database Helps System Instructions
- June 1, 2024
- d b audiotechnik
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d b audiotechnik Venue Database Helps System
Specifications
- Transparency/Lock setting: Default transparency setting is ON. Venue elements must be locked to prevent accidental movement.
- Colour palette: Follow fixed colour code for different height levels.
- Naming convention: Audience planes should be named by floor level front to back and left to right.
Product Usage Instructions
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Requirements for Venue Files
Users must adjust transparency and lock settings as needed. All venue elements should be locked to prevent accidental movement. -
Colour Palette
The venue file must adhere to a fixed colour code for different height levels. Different shades of respective colours can be used for subdivisions. -
Naming Convention
Audience planes must be named by floor level front to back and left to right. Structural elements should be named meaningfully. -
Venue Information
All mandatory information marked with an asterisk (*) must be provided on the form on My d&b. -
Location
Provide complex name, venue/room name, street address, ZIP code, city, state, and country. -
Loading Dock
Include image with specified dimensions, loading dock street address, and photographs of the loading dock access from outside and inside. Provide any relevant comments about the loading situation. -
Interior Photographs
Include wide-angle images looking at the stage, auditorium, Stage Left, and Stage Right. Isometric view/overview picture from Stage Right wing taken from Stage Left.
FAQ
Q: Can I deviate from the specified colour palette for the venue file?
A: It is recommended to follow the fixed colour code for different height
levels. If necessary, different shades of the respective colours can be used
for subdivisions.
d &b Venue database
Requirements for venue files
Preamble
Thank you for your interest in contributing to the d&b Venue database!
The following pages outline the requirements necessary to achieve a minimum
useful level of quality of all database entries, as well as explanations for
the form fields in My d&b. Please read them carefully and try to compile
accurate information, even for entries that are not mandatory. This will help
your fellow engineers who have not been to a particular venue yet. Put
yourself in their shoes – you would appreciate good info about an unfamiliar
venue, too.
Which venues are relevant?
There are two criteria in particular which make a venue relevant for the
database:
- The venue frequently hosts touring productions for which a temporary audio system needs to be pre-planned and deployed.
- The venue is sufficiently complex that an appropriate ArrayCalc model cannot be created in very few minutes.
These conditions are typically met in venues of a capacity of 1000 2000 and above, but exceptions of do of course apply.
Accuracy
- The venue model should be accurate to within better than 20 cm and use symmetry where possible to enable the use of ArrayProcessing.
- Reasonable simplification of geometry should be used. I.e., blocks of seating with a continuous slope should be represented as one continuous plane.
- Obvious primary obstacles such as video cubes in arenas should also be approximated as the respective element type.
Origin
- The origin must be set so that it can be clearly and easily identified in the actual venue.
- E.g., at the kick-off point or center of room in arenas and stadia, at the front edge of a permanent stage or the center of the proscenium arch in theaters.
- It should be clearly indicated in the Comments field in the venue editor which actual point in the venue the origin refers to (e.g. whether the DSC refers to the permanent part of the stage or possibly the raised orchestra pit) and how it can be identified/found at the actual venue.
Rigging information
- If no additional comments are given, it is assumed that audio rigging points can be created anywhere around a typical stage position within reason.
- If there is are mandatory-use house trusses, please include as a structure elements.
- Similarly, if there are mandatory rigging points for audio (often the case in smaller houses where bridles or pre-rigs are not possible) please identify as small, labelled structure elements, if possible.
Transparency/Lock setting
The default setting for transparency is “ON”. Users of the venue file shall
adjust as necessary at their discretion.
All venue elements shall be locked to prevent accidental movement.
Colour palette
The venue file must follow a fixed colour code for different height levels as
given below.
If it is meaningful to subdivide e.g. the ground or main floor, different shades of the respective colour shall be used. If the colour palette does not suffice, the colours are repeated in the same order.
Naming convention
Audience planes must be named by floor level front to back and left to right
as seen from FoH.
Example:
100 front C, 100 front R, 100 front RR, etc., with 100 being the ground level
if no other specifications by the venue’s naming logic are given.
Audience planes may also be named by seating block or floor names as indicated
on official venue floor plans if their subdivision follows the floor plan.
Structural elements should be named meaningfully, e.g. grid, beam, load
bearing grid etc.
Venue geometry considerations with regard to architectural features
- Significant architectural features that enable an easier correlation between ArrayCalc and the actual venue shall be represented as “Structure” elements, e.g. a permanent stage, straight ceiling beams or video cubes.
- Arched beams with their max clearance typically at the center of the venue may be represented as projected flat elements at max clearance.
- Very complex ceiling grids with otherwise high load capacity should be simplified into one quadrangle at the respective minimum clearance height.
- Angled structural elements may be represented by quadrangles at minimum clearance.
This is the information you will be asked to provide in the form on My d&b.
You will not be able to temporarily store and later revisit the form before
submitting, so you will have to have at least all mandatory information ready
from the start.
All respective entries are marked with an asterix (*) in the list below.
Location
- Complex name Name of overall multi-venue building or campus.
- Include known former names.
- Leave empty if there is only one event venue in the building/on the campus.
- Venue/Room name
- Name of the specific venue/room within the multi-venue building/campus.
- Include known former names.
General data
Street address, ZIP Code, City, State, Country
Location comment Anything that is important to know when accessing the venue,
such as “try to arrive before 9 am to avoid terrible traffic”.
Loading dock Image WIDTH or HEIGHT at least 3000 px
- Please provide photographs from the requested angles if possible, they often reveal important details.
- Please only use photographs that you have taken yourself and for which you own the respective intellectual property and copyrights.
- Please only provide one photograph per angle.
- If there are several loading docks, please provide images of the main loading dock only.
- All faces or license plates must be blackened for data privacy reasons.
Loading dock street address Leave empty if identical to official venue address.
Photograph of Loading dock access from the outside
Photograph of Loading dock access from the inside
Loading dock comments Any peculiarities about the dock or loading situation
(e.g. “how many trucks at a time”, “difficult to reverse into”, or “freight
elevator only”, “very long, narrow push”)
Interior photographs Image WIDTH or HEIGHT at least 3000 px
- Please provide photographs from the requested angles if possible, they often reveal important details.
- Please only use photographs that you have taken yourself and for which you own the respective intellectual property and copyrights.
- Please only provide one photograph per angle.
- If photographs cannot be provided, at least an isometric view of the empty venue taken from the 3D Plot must be provided.
- All faces or license plates must be blackened for data privacy reasons.
Rigging details
Submitting a venue
To submit a venue, you require a myd&b account. The contribution form can be
reached via the ArrayCalc product page on our website.
Do you have questions about the d &b Venue Database?
Please send any questions (not venues) that you may have to
[email protected]
We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Legal notice
By signing this document you grant d&b audio technik GmbH & Co. KG, Eugen-
Adolff-Str. 134, 71522 Backnang (“d&b”), irrevocable, sub-licensable, royalty-
free, worldwide rights of use and exploitation of the submitted photos and
venue files. You agree that these rights of use and exploitation shall allow
d&b to use the submitted photos and venue files in connection with d&b‘s Venue
Database without any restriction. In particular, you grant d&b the right to
edit, redesign and adjust the photos and venue files and to use and exploit
the results to the same extent as the original files.
Please make sure that you do not infringe any third party intellectual
property rights. In particular:
- You may only submit venue files that you have created yourself.
- You may only submit photographs that you have taken yourself. For privacy reasons, please blacken all faces and license plates (we will do that for you, should you forget).
Privacy Notice
You may revoke your consent to show your name in the Venue Database at any
time with effect for the future. Revocation shall be sent to
[email protected]. Please be aware of d&b’s
Privacy Policy: https://www.dbaudio.com/global/en/privacy-policy/
References
- Professional audio solutions from Germany | d&b audiotechnik
- Privacy policy website | d&b audiotechnik