With a key location on Bangkok’s popular Khaosan Road, Superflow is the latest addition to the city’s manic nightlife. Setting it apart from many, is its focus on sound.

The audio brief contained several primary requirements, as Fuzion Far East Product Specialist Benjamin Walters recalls: ‘There needed to be separate control for the main (outdoor) dancefloor area, the terrace, swing seating area and beach zone, but also the ability to combine the main dancefloor and terrace; the latter is sometimes used as an overflow when the main area is busy. There also needed to be a capability for easy adjustment and control.’

Handling the sound install, Fuzion Far East has frequently specified the Symetrix SymNet Solus line of open-architecture standalone processors for bar/club projects, but in this instance determined that a single SymNet Radius 12x8 EX Dante-scalable DSP would provide the desired expansion capacity to accommodate future requirements.

The SymNet Radius unit is equipped with a single SymNet xOut 4 expander, with system control provided by four ARC-2e Adaptive Remote Control wall-panels. One of these controllers, located in the DJ booth, has been configured to enable an instantaneous ‘bass cut’ to the main subs of 6dB. ‘Superflow is very much regarded as a growing project, so it was important that we had the ability to add additional outputs,’ Walters explains. ‘The SymNet Radius 12x8 EX provided that, along with the reliability that we have come to expect from the Symetrix processors. We’ve used the DSPs successfully including, at present, a series of installations at Hooters and Hard Rock Café venues in the region.’

At Superflow, Walters focused configures the loudspeakers and amplifiers around a sizeable contingent of Quest Audio technology – owner Ceto Mind having been impressed by Fuzion’s use of a Quest-based design at another local venue. Quest QM 700 loudspeakers, HPI18LP compact speakers and QA 4004 amplifiers were among the specific models chosen for the Superflow fit-out. The elaborate configuration has been adjusted since initial installation in order to address noise concerns.