With a bar on the ground floor and cafe bar on the first floor this busy arts centre required some sophisticated interconnections.
The two independent systems can be switched so a DJ connected to the downstairs system can be played upstairs and vice versa.
Using JBL Control28 speakers in the bar and Canon V100 speakers upstairs we get a crisp clean sound without annoying cinema goers nearby.
With the cinemas in the same building we have to be careful about sound leakage. If you look up above the bar on the first floor you will see a box with green, amber and red lights flickering away. As the sound levels increase more lights come on and if it goes above the limit we've set it turns on three reds and turns off the music. This means DJ's can see how near the limit they are and adjust the volume so cinema audiences are only listening to one soundtrack.
ODDER
Just as we managed to stop the DJ's blowing our speakers in Odd Bar (by installing a tightly controlled Nexo system) we were asked to fit a sound system in an even Odder Bar. This time we took no chances and went with old school Bose 802's which look well amid the amazing cornucopia of furniture, furnishings and phantasmagoria. Again they have had the wisdom to add a jukebox to the musical mix. This is true democracy - who are the people who choose the music? - We are the people who choose the music!
We have just upgraded the sound system in this gem of a bar. After extensive listening trials we went with compact Martin speakers, sub bass units and digital processing. The processor allows us to adjust the system to give a clean neutral sound using a spectrum anylizer (or our acoustic engineers earoles which had already got it bang on)
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