BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND — The City Centre Leisure Group has just opened Club 2020 in Bournemouth — with sound reinforcement provided by Northampton-based Production Hire.
When it comes to providing a punchy sound to keep the local party people working out to R&B, House and Electro on the dance floor until 4 a.m., Production Hire and owner Mark Neal have gone for a combination of Martin Audio Blackline speakers and ground stacks of the original Wavefront 8’s in front of the DJ booths on each floor.
The 840-person capacity club has a ground floor dance room (and adjacent tented chill area) that leads down to a VIP mezzanine room and main room in the basement.
On the ground floor, two stacks of Wavefront W8 and W8S complement sets of AQ12 and AQ8’s — as well as the F10 DJ monitors. In the large tented area, guests chill out with music delivered at reduced volume through another pair of AQ8’s.
“I use Blackline for aggression and cut on the dance floor — and for DJ monitoring,” Neal says. “It has that bite anywhere you need it. The AQ’s produce a smooth, transparent sound and are perfect for the bar areas.”
For the mezzanine VIP lounge — where a permanent DJ booth has been set up — there are two more AQ8’s. The stairway then leads down to the deceptively large main club, with its resin-coated floor. Here two ground stacks, each with two W8 and two W8S, and a pair of F10’s immediately announces their intentions while two more F10’s serve as DJ monitors.
Multiples of AQ12 are used for infills with further bass extension coming from a pair of AQ215 floor-mounted subs, while a pair of AQ6’s service this floor’s dedicated chill-out bar.
Production Hire and Neal created the mood with Pulsar LED FX among the large monochromatic murals, and providing simple control from preset lighting states.
The company has done the same with the audio in this multi-zone venue, where the routing and gain structure are assigned to line-configured BSS Soundweb 9088iis (with two SW9008 expanders) and an SW9010 ‘Jellyfish’ wall remote for local source select and volume control. This provides a capacity of 24 outputs and eight inputs — with most channels in use.
“The whole system is correctly time aligned and EQ’d, and any DJ source can be sent anywhere in the building,” Neal says.
“We have already had acts like Babyshambles and Peaches Geldof playing here—and we have the pedigree of sound system that will appeal to the caliber of DJ’s like Erick Morillo and Trevor Nelson,” says City Centre Leisure’s Josh Simons. “In addition, the versatility of the system will enable the venue to stage the type of different events they have planned.”
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For information, please visit www.intasoundpa.co.uk/productionhire.htm or www.martin-audio.co.uk/.
