Sharing its mix of American-style food and music memorabilia to millions of customers across the world, the Hard Rock Café has added a new branch in Lyon, France. As with all Hard Rock Cafés, it encomapsses dining, live performance, a shop, a private dining area and a meeting room. Systems integrator Eurosono was contracted to install the audio system, choosing a Dante zoned Yamaha CIS solution for audio quality and flexible control.
‘A main requirement was that each zone and a range of audio sources had to be managed from a centralised point,’ says Frédéric Borde of Yamaha Music Europe France. ‘A Dante audio network was installed throughout the venue, so control via Yamaha’s Provisionaire Touch iPad app was ideal, as it can be highly customised and used anywhere in the venue.’
The eight-zone system is managed by an MTX5-D matrix mixer/signal processor, with control via a bespoke Provisionaire Touch design. Six DCP1V4S surface-mount panels are located in the system rack for emergency manual control of each zone, with two more (linked via a DCH8 hub) in convenient locations. Six VXC6W ceiling speakers cover the shop, entrance and private dining area, with eight NS-IC600 ceiling speakers covering the meeting room, toilets, corridor and cellar. An XMV8140-D power amplifier drives the loudspeakers.
The live area hosts three performances each week, and here a Yamaha TF1 digital mixing console handles FOH and monitor mixes, with a Tio1608-D I/O rack patching the main mix into the venue’s Dante network. Four active DXR10 loudspeakers provide monitor mixes for the performers.
‘Eurosono chose the Yamaha solution because the system delivers high-quality sound, the Dante network makes for great flexibility and it has been very easy to program a bespoke control system in Provisionaire Touch,’ Borde says. ‘Live music is a key part of the Hard Rock Café experience, so the TF1 console’s ease and speed of use, and the simplicity of routing live mixes to the installed system, were further reasons for choosing the Yamaha solution.’
