The latest Yard House opened in April 2015, bringing its mix of dining and music to Kansas City. ‘The restaurant’s image has a focus on classic rock, so the owners want really high-quality foreground music that can get loud without sounding harsh,’ says No Static CEO Eugene Gordon. ‘This is our 59th Yard House installation, and we’ve standardised on Community loudspeakers to meet that challenge.’
Based in Burbank, California, No Static Pro Audio designed and installed the audio and video systems, with an HDMI-over-IP network to distribute eight Direct TV channels and a DVD player to multiple large-screen video displays. The audio system can carry any of these feeds.
The audio system includes an Ashly DSP and QSC amplifiers. The foreground music source is a Mac Mini computer with its play list sync’d to Yard House headquarters via Dropbox. Audio and video are both controlled by an AMX touchpanel system that includes an iPad walk-around controller.
For Yard House locations with outdoor patio dining, No Static installs Community W Series for both the indoor and outdoor seating. In Kansas City, which has a smaller, seasonal outdoor area, the company used 30 Community V Series V2-8 loudspeakers around the perimeter of the indoor restaurant spaces and above the video screens at the bar. W Series loudspeakers will be installed for the outdoor seating when that area is completed.
Gordon believes that Yard House has achieved an enviable position with the branding of its restaurants and high-energy classic rock music, with Community loudspeakers playing an important part in delivering on that image.
