Blundell Street's owners were so pleased with the first sound system that they asked Kick Sales to provide audio, projection and lighting for the Supper Club room. The brief given to Kick's Peter Jeffrey was to make the system as unobtrusive and aesthetically pleasing as possible.
The Supper club is a restaurant with live music, so it needed to have plenty of power. Jeffrey decided that the logical audio route was a distributed sound system. It is a large room with bare walls and challenging acoustics. Jeffrey has worked on many projects with Adlib in the past, and the hire side of his company, has Adlib touring speakers in hire stock. After listening to the AA218s and 118s, he decided they had the right sonic and physical dimensions for the job. In addition a horn flare is used for high frequency dispersion, greatly increasing the intelligibility of the box in these regions.
Each enclosure has plenty of headroom in terms of sound output, but the philosophy was to provide distribution and equal dispersion of sound across the room, rather than it coming out of fewer and more specific point sources. Blundell Street's owners are impressed, and the venue is packed to capacity most nights, with a month's pre-booking required for the weekends. Kick Sales supplied further audio elements including dbx processing, and the rack units to house the amplifiers, processor units and lighting control, built by Adlib.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
