The carefully crafted sound of Zellerbach Hall

Nick Antipa, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, has played t
Nick Antipa, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, has played the trumpet in UC Berkeley’s orchestra since 2009. (UC Berkeley cinemagraph by Stephen McNally)
That's UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra trumpet player Nick Antipa playing Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 2 in Zellerbach Hall. The sound is rich, resonant, heroic. It's the sound of Zellerbach. But the acoustics that make this sound possible didn't just happen. The sound has been created with an acoustic system of more than 200 intricately placed microphones and speakers. It's called Constellation by Meyer Sound.
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