Article source: WSDG

An entrepreneur with a wide range of music business interests, Irwin Kornfeld has sparked new awareness for the eighty-year-old Westchester County Center.  A major upgrade of the facility’s acoustics, coupled with a state of the art sound system, has landed the WCC and its new “Pepe Infiniti Concert Series” on the radar of booking agents and performing artists seeking viable venues for tri-state concert dates.  The series’ launch featured The Beach Boys in concert in mid-May, nearly fifty years after their first WCC gig. The Johnny Winter Band and Edgar Winter Group, Boston, Il Volo, Whoopie Goldberg, Aretha Franklin and others are booked through November.

Image Courtesy Andrew Stein Videography

• Project: Westchester County Center – Revitalized Acoustics
• Location: White Plains, New York
• Photos by: Andrew Stein Videography
• Software used: 

• Revit – for acoustic detailing package
• CATT-Acoustic – for acoustic modeling
• WinFlag – to find absorption coefficients for lapendary panels
• Proprietary WSDG RT60 Calculator – for internal room acoustic calculations
• B&K P48 mic with a type 4007 capsule – for initial site RT60 acoustic measurements
• Note: The tricky part in this project was to find the optimum amount of ceiling panels that fit within the budget range. CATT-Acoustic helped accomplish this.

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