Fast-expanding installation contractors, Promedia Systems have just completed an audio fit-out of City Bars & Restaurants plc’s flagship venue, 10 Covent Garden - a transfiguration of the New Connaught Rooms banqueting facility. Promedia have deployed 10 C Audio Pulse 2x1100s and a single 2x650 amplifier to drive the sound systems installed throughout the five rooms, and director Ian Woodall says that the flexibility this affords has provided a winning combination. "We have an ISDN line in the amplifier room, with one of the channels hooked up to Soundweb and the other to the C Audio’s proprietary Connect network to allow remote amplifier diagnostic and reprogramming of the EQ and/or matrix parameters. This means that the network can be dialled up from home and any problems solved remotely." But he adds that since 95% of problems end to be user error, it makes a great diagnostic tool. At 10 Covent Garden it is the BSS Soundweb which forms the entire control backbone for all five rooms, including All About Eve and The 10 Room, matrixed via two 9088 devices, a 9010 Jellyfish and four 9012 Shrimps, offering a local input and output in each room. The Shrimps have been reconfigured, with a little help from some neat programming in the Jellyfish, to facilitate 11 separate sources. Thus from a single point in the venue the engineer can control any of the CD multiplay sound sources fed to any of the rooms.
