EV installation for Volt club

Volt club

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ev installation for volt club london

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In North London a new nightclub has been created out of two old ones: the Volt Club has opened in Edmonton following a comprehensive refurbishment of premises and the installation of an all-new Electro-Voice dancefloor sound system.

Built over two floors, the Volt Club is owned by Volt Productions, a company which already runs a successful nightclub operation in Uganda. Taking over two former club venues, Volt has fully refurbished and soundproofed the space, addressing the problems of noise leakage that were causing complaints from residential neighbours. Walls, ceiling and floors have been acoustically treated; even the fire exits are now connected to the club’s sound system, so that if anyone opens a door, the music immediately shuts off.

For the Volt Club’s main dancefloor, a powerful Electro-Voice Rx system has been specified and installed by club sound engineer Muhamad Adam. A long-time user of Electro-Voice in Uganda, Adam declares that EV is his favourite brand of loudspeaker; for the Edmonton venue, he researched the technology on the EV website, ordered the hardware from A.C.Lighting, and installed everything with his in-house team.

“Considering the size of the room, and the height of the speaker positions, I picked the Rx 115/75 with its 15in LF woofer rather than the 12in version,” explains Adam. He has configured the system with six 115/75 high-output full-range enclosures, wall-mounted. “There are two pairs facing each other across the dancefloor. People tend to dance where the music is at its loudest, so I positioned one pair of speakers in order to move them away from the DJ booth. The other pair addresses the areas around the bar where people tend to congregate. The remaining two Rx115/75s effectively act as infills.”

Currently the system provides heavy bass to around 35-50Hz, but Muhamad Adam is intending to replace the Rx218S subs with EV Xds subs from the X-Array range to extend the low-end output even further.

The Volt Club is already attracting interest from London’s R&B and hip-hop stars; singer Keisha White has been in to enjoy the vibe, and the club has hosted PAs by Boyz II Men, and celebrated Ugandan musicians such as Bobi Wine and Butcherman. Meanwhile, the Electro-Voice installation is another coup for UK distributor Shuttlesound, whose EV kits has enjoyed several high profile installations around the UK. The recently completed Byblos in Glasgow has made use of the first ever stacked EV line array, finished in a neon pink (the official colour of the Glasgow based EV installer Flashlite). For Electro-Voice and Shuttlesound the equipment list at Byblos features some notable ‘firsts’ in terms of installation and along with the array makes use the majority of EV’s catalogue. Check out next month’s NIGHT magazine for the full Byblos review.

From: June 2007 Issue

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