Billed as Hoboken’s premiere ultra venue, the Hudson Ultra Bar is a music, dance, and entertainment venue with VIP booths surround its dancefloor for table guests wanting a ringside seat to the action. For music reproduction, the club chose Sound Force Series loudspeakers from DAS Audio.
Global Audio Systems was contracted to handle the system design and implementation: ‘The Hudson Ultra Bar is an open-format, multi-level dance club with elaborate VIP accommodations and a large, raised catwalk-style DJ booth,’ says company owner, Jason Ojeda. ‘With two levels, there is approximately 6,000-sq-ft of space. Music is a driving factor of the activity in this club, so having the ability to produce the necessary sound pressure levels while keeping the music’s sound true to form was crucial to this installation.’
To provide coverage throughout the venue, Ojeda and his crew flew two DAS Audio Sound Force SF-20A powered enclosures – one each for the left and right sides of the main dancefloor and bar area. Low frequency support is provided by two SF-30A powered subwoofers, which incorporate Powersoft’s 30-inch M-Force Moving Magnet Transducer, with one enclosure each ground stacked for the left and right sides and positioned under the VIP and stairwell areas.
The Hudson Ultra Bar has both first and second floor delay systems. The ground floor incorporates seven DAS Audio SF-10A powered enclosures plus four SF-26 two-way passive enclosures, along with two DAS Artec 322 bass reflex sub bass enclosures. On the second level, this set-up is repeated, but with ten DAS SF-10A powered enclosures instead of seven, as on the lower level.
Rounding out the SR system are two weatherised DAS Audio WR-8826 enclosures. For the DJ booth Ojeda used two Sound Force S-10A enclosures and a single Artec 322S bass reflex subwoofer. For the passive loudspeaker systems, power is provided by a combination of four DAS Audio D-100 power amplifiers, two PA-1500 stereo, and two PA-900 stereo power amplifiers.
‘We chose the SF-20 as the mains because of its amazing intelligibility in the vocal range,’ Ojeda says. ‘The Hudson Ultra Bar is now the second install with the SF-20 and it truly sounds like a pair of B&W 802¹s and you are sitting in your living room.’
Installation at the Hudson Ultra Bar took place during May 2017 prior to opening on 1 April. Since that time, Ojeda says he’s received numerous compliments from his client: ‘I couldn’t be happier with this install, it went flawlessly. The design of the rig enables the customer to walk to any area of the venue and have the same experience sonically. Time alignment was a key aspect to the success of this install and the system sounding the way it does. The DAS Audio loudspeakers sound amazing and do so with very little EQ. They produce a very natural and smooth sound.’
Hudson Ultra Bar owner Mike Citarella concurs: ‘This DAS sound system is amazing. The sound is crystal clear, our customers love it, and best of all, the delivery of the sound fills the club without being so loud that you have to scream at one another – people can carry on conversations without yelling. DAS has delivered big-time for us.’
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