“When we bid on the project, the owner of SRB Brooklyn told us he wanted to cater to all types of music and bring in national acts, and that he wanted a top-quality sound system,” said Jeff Kwan, Vice President of New York sound contractor Canal Sound and Light. “He specifically said, ‘I want the best speakers in tour sound for my club,’ so we immediately thought of JBL VERTEC® and recommended a HARMAN Professional system as the way to go for the 500-person room.”
“The building is a converted warehouse, so we had some architectural constraints,” Kwan continued. “It’s a long room but has a low ceiling so flying the main speakers was challenging. We went with two ground stacks of four VERTEC VT4888 midsize line array elements per side. However, the VT4888’s aren’t just plopped on the ground—they’re placed in a ‘notch’ in each wall on either side of the stage that’s about 10 feet high, so we get the sonic and coverage advantages of raising them off the ground. We also installed three JBL ASB7128 subwoofers under the stage—the ASB7128 is specifically designed to work well either ground-stacked or flown.”
A variety of additional JBL loudspeakers round out the system. Eight VRX915M and two PRX612M floor monitors are deployed onstage and two ASB7118 subwoofers are used for drum fill. Four STX835 loudspeakers and two ASB7128 subs are located at the rear of the club while four AC28/26 compact loudspeakers and one AM7212/00 provide additional fill throughout the venue.
“We installed Crown I-Tech HD Series amplifiers to drive the VT4888’s, ASB7128 subs and STX835 rear loudspeakers, and Crown XTi Series amps for the stage monitors and other fill loudspeakers. The I-Tech HD amps’ preset tunings and adjustable built-in DSP make them the perfect match for the bigger JBL loudspeakers, while the XTi amps offer a good combination of price and performance.” A dbx DriveRack 4800 Loudspeaker Management System provides speaker processing and control.
A variety of AKG mics fill out the HARMAN system, including D7 vocal mics, C3000, C451B and C535EB vocal and instrument condenser mics, C518M and D112 drum and bass drum mics, D40 instrument mics and a P2 low-pitched instrument/bass drum mic. In addition the stage is equipped with 20 BSS AR-133 active direct boxes.
There were challenges during the installation. “As it turned out the original design of the stage did not provide enough acoustical treatment for the subwoofers,” Kwan noted. “When we first put the system through its paces the subs really shook the stage. We had to add sand and concrete to the stage to eliminate the shaking and noise and direct the low-frequency energy forward towards the audience.”
The result was worth it: “The venue’s management wanted SRB Brooklyn to be a music venue that rivals any place in Manhattan. He definitely accomplished that. It’s an unpretentious place where people can really enjoy themselves and appreciate the best audio system in Brooklyn.”
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 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of 14,600 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $4.5 billion for the last twelve months ended September 30, 2013.
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