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Starlite
Productions outfitted the new Boogie
Nights dance club in Atlantic City with JBL’s new Marquis Dance Club Series loudspeakers. |
NORTHRIDGE, California – Providing Atlantic City’s Tropicana Casino
and Resort with a complete audio solution for its retro ‘70s and ‘80s Boogie
Nights dance club, Moorestown, New Jersey-based Starlite Productions installed
HARMAN’s JBL Marquis Dance Club Series loudspeakers, making it a premier night
club that boasts high-fidelity sound quality.
The Tropicana needed a solution after management renovated a
section of its casino into the Boogie Nights club and approached Starlite to
design the venue’s entire audio, video, control, and lighting system. “The
biggest challenge was ensuring our clients’ needs were met to the fullest
degree, while keeping everyone involved on the same page throughout the
process,” stated Brandon Powell, Systems Project Manager at Starlite.
Boogie
Nights comprises a long space just off the casino floor with three sections
including a club area, a bar and lounge. There is also a VIP area and a balcony
area that performers and dancers can access.
The audio system in the club area is anchored by JBL’s new
Marquis Dance Club Series loudspeakers, specifically designed for the dance
club market with unprecedented fidelity, clarity and breathtaking purity. There
are four JBL MD49 loudspeakers and four MD7 dual 18-inch subwoofers suspended
from the building structure, hung to cover the dance floor from all sides while
providing stereo imaging from any dance area on the floor. They are positioned
around and inside the perimeter of a large circular truss roughly 30 feet in
diameter that is suspended 20 feet above the dance floor. This allows people to
step just beyond the dance area to converse without interference from the
high-output levels of the loudspeakers. Other overhead features include
intelligent lighting, fog machines, bubble machines, video projectors, and the
biggest disco ball on the Atlantic City strip. There are also 10 MD55 loudspeakers
throughout the bar and lounge, with two of them flown over the stage for the DJ
or talent monitors.
All the
speakers are powered by Crown amplifiers, which are located in the equipment racks
next to the bar. There are two Crown Macro-Tech 12000i amplifiers, six
Macro-Tech 5000i amplifiers, one CTS2000 amplifier and one CTS8200 amplifier.
The system
also boasts two BSS audio processors: a BLU160 and a BLU320 handle audio
routing, signal processing and speaker management throughout the space.
Starlite utilized an additional output to feed the casino floor area
immediately outside Boogie Nights, so during open hours, what is being played
inside will overflow into the gaming space, excluding microphone feeds.
When deciding on the best equipment for the job, Lenny
DiGangi, AV Sales & Design for Starlite, mentioned, “We have a great
relationship with HARMAN and knew the Marquis Dance Club Series would be
perfect for this application. Everyone has their preferences and we chose the
products and components that make us the most efficient installers and programmers,
while keeping the project in the scope of what our client wants.”
“I was
impressed with the MD49 loudspeakers as they are smooth right out of the box,” Powell
said. “The Marquis Dance Club Series is set up for clubs. The super tweeters
and the 4-way, quad-amplified configuration add great value and sound quality
to these boxes, giving them exceptional clarity with loads of headroom.”
“The
Macro-Tech amplifiers are workhorses,” Powell added. “The CTS amplifiers get
the job done well—this is known industry-wide and is the reason we continue to use
them.”
“Starlite did
a fantastic job with the entire project, especially since the installation
experience was very challenging,” said David Peña, Owner, Boogie Nights. “Since
the club is a transformation of a huge open space, it was a difficult room to
fill evenly with audio. The sound system is incredible! Customers constantly
comment on how impressed they are and how clean it sounds. The lounge area has
great energy while allowing patrons to still have a conversation due to the
ability to direct sound. The loudspeakers definitely complete the Boogie Nights
experience. Some of our other clubs have JBL and we’ve always had great
experiences with their products. JBL is a name I feel comfortable with and I know
their speakers are dance quality.”
Other
members of Starlite Productions who helped with the design and implementation
of the project include; David King, Senior Systems Manager who wrote the HARMAN
HiQnet London Architect™ file and tuned the space using Smaart real-time sound
analysis; Mark Pacitti, AV Integrator who wrote the program that manages system
control and video routing; James Suit, Lighting Sales, who was in charge of
lighting design; and Brandon Creel, Systems Project Manager who programmed the
intelligent lighting and dance floor.
For more
information on Starlite Productions, please visit: http://www.starlite.com
HARMAN
(www.harman.com) designs, manufactures and
markets a wide range of audio and infotainment solutions for the automotive,
consumer and professional markets – supported by 15 leading brands, including
AKG, Harman Kardon, Infinity, JBL, Lexicon and Mark Levinson. The company is
admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading
professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 20
million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and
infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of about 13,400 people across the
Americas, Europe and Asia, and reported sales of $4.4 billion for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 2012.
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