In the style of many current venues, the Long Island Iced Tea shop is designed to cater for comfortable eating and drinking throughout the day before turning up the energy for the night time crowd with a DJ and a dance floor. The system therefore needs to be capable of providing high quality background music during the day, whilst still having the power and the poise to deliver the same high quality at levels required by club system at night. A Nexo PS system was specified both for the inherent quality of the product combined with the amount of built-in protection offered by the dedicated controllers. As TTL Music's Andy Hague points out, reliability in an installation like this is paramount. "For a start, there is a fair amount of equipment in this place, but the other factor to bear in mind is that TTL is based in Nottingham, and we don't want to be having to send engineers down to Sutton every week to replace blown drivers! Installing a quality product like Nexo and Crown ensures that our maintenance will be minimal."
The installation at the Long Island Iced Tea shop is zoned into three areas; the dance floor area is served by four Nexo PS-10 cabinets, and two LS-500 subs plus a PS-10TD controller. The raised seating area behind the dance floor has a background system comprising four Nexo PS-8s, an LS-400 sub and PS-8TD controller, while the front area of the bar with both soft seating and the bar itself has a total of 18 PS-8s distributed through the area plus a further eight LS-400 subs and three PS-8TD controllers. The whole system is driven by a total of 11 Crown MT 2400 power amplifiers. There are also two DJ booths, one situated next to the dance floor and the other downstairs in the main bar.
The system has been designed to be highly versatile with an Audace hub and wall plates providing simple user control of the A&H DR128 DSP controller. This gives the operator remote source selection and level control, essential when balancing the differing requirements of day-time/night-time trading. Any combination of zones is possible, as is the ability to cross-fade neatly between them. The audio system also interfaces with the emergency and evacuation systems. TTL's Andy Hague commented, "It was nice to have the budget to spend to do this job properly. The result is a sophisticated, high quality sound system that does everything the client requested with the minimum of hassle. The client is pleased, and so are we."
(Lee Baldock)
