Set in the Underground Atlanta district of Atlanta, Georgia, the new Future Nightclub is an established haunt of dance and entertainment for the city’s music lovers. Aiming to create a unique and contemporary experience within historic surroundings, the venue has installed video, lighting and audio in the venue with support from local A/V systems integrator, House of Music Productions selecting the Pioneer Pro Audio XY Series for the sound system.
Club owners Keith Young and Hoosh Mishu approached House of Music Productions in late 2019 to begin the system design for the large, oddly-shaped, two-storey retail space with a large staircase in the middle. However, as renovations began to take form, the space was almost completely gutted, giving the new nightclub a large, open, main downstairs dance floor and an upstairs stage and show area; both with bars, lighting, video and audio to immerse the audience all night long.
‘Once we understood the final space design, we started looking at different loudspeakers and sound systems to deliver the experience the club owners envisioned,’ say House of Music Productions’ Mario Auda and Jeremy Ladd. ‘The owners wanted a sound system that looks great and sounds even better, and that could cover both floors of the club with the fidelity and dynamics needed for today’s high-end, live DJ and EDM performances.’
Auda worked with engineers at Pioneer Pro Audio to specify an appropriate sound system and modelled the downstairs and upstairs spaces to craft a precise loudspeaker placement scheme. With the a concept design in place, Auda and the team brought in Pioneer Pro Audio’s latest XY Series system for a live demonstration.
‘The demonstration was perfect, and everyone loved the system,’ Auda reports. ‘The XY Series has a great look that fits the new club atmosphere, but more importantly, it delivers a great sound. The audio quality of XY is smooth, natural, and accurate, while punchy and impactful. Listeners can really feel the music, and that’s what the owners imagined with this space.’
The XY Series is a compact, versatile PA/monitor loudspeaker system for venues and applications of nearly any size. The system’s high/mid-range blended design produces tightly controlled sound dispersion, filling all corners of a room with bass, punch and clarity. Because of the cabinets’ design, fewer boxes are needed as compared to other systems making the XY Series easy to transport, set up, and install.
‘Best thing I like about the system other than how great it sounds, is that we have yet to fix anything after being open for almost a year,’ says club owner Young. ‘I like that we have not had to change anything since the install.’
Auda point out that each system can be used independently to support different events or be used together to deliver the same audio throughout the entire club. A Midas M32R console is set up in the main floor DJ booth for expanded mic and instrument control, with installed stage boxes available on the upstairs stage to accommodate bands or special events. The system is powered by networked Powersoft XL4 amplifiers using their onboard DSP for control.
The downstairs DJ booth is equipped with all Pioneer DJ equipment – including the newest Pioneer DJ CDJ-3000 Professional DJ Multiplayers.
‘Sean Delaine, House of Music’s main sound engineer and system tech got into the details of dialling in the sound and DSP for the space, and he’s been very impressed with what Pioneer Pro Audio can do,’ Auda says. ‘The club has had many good-sized events, and they’ve been cranking up the volume – all DSP/system-protected, of course – and they have not had any issues. The XY System perfectly fills the space, and you can absolutely feel the music anywhere in the building; the owners love the system.’
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