Gold Room is a chic, elegantly designed club with a reputation for high-class events and an unbeatable party atmosphere. Unlike any other nightspot in Atlanta, the team behind the venue sought to maintain its exclusive reputation with a light show that was not only visually stunning but low maintenance and energy efficient as well.
When Scott Waterbury at Atlanta Sound & Lighting was asked to design an elegant 4D environment for the 7,500sq.ft club, he opted for a mix of Elation and ADJ lighting gear to give the Gold Room a high-energy yet super-efficient lightshow. Replacing the previous high-maintenance lighting system are 28 Elation Rayzor Q7 and 24 Platinum Spot LED II moving heads with pixel-mapped effects displayed across over 1000' of Elation Flex Pixel Tape, as well as ADJ lighting effects.
The Gold Room rig was built entirely of LED fixtures - one of the first clubs of its size to do so. Fed up with wasting energy and funds powering lamps and changing bulbs, the efficiency and low maintenance offered by an all-LED setup meant that a key client demand was met.
Another concern was that the technicians and designers at Gold Room were spending too much time fixing problems and changing lamps instead of programing and getting creative with the lighting. With a virtually maintenance-free LED light show, the staff at Gold Room can now spend more time being imaginative and getting the most out of the system.
In order to fulfill the client's brief to create a 4D look, Scott combined the lighting effects with the room's various décor features, such as glass and mirrors, to make the lightshow as mesmeric and eye-catching as possible. Twenty-four ceiling-mounted Elation Platinum Spot LED II moving heads spray fast-moving beams across the dance floor while working with the other pixel-mappable fixtures, including a forest of ADJ Pixel Tubes.
On the walls of the two-level club, grids of pixel-mappable Elation Flex Pixel Tape create a variety of dynamic patterns.
Presiding over all of the pixel-mappable LED excitement, Scott installed 28 compact Elation Rayzor Q7 moving heads at mezzanine level, whose high-impact quad-colour LEDs and wash/beam effect are used to cut beams into the crowd and wash dancers in colour.
Scott was able to turn the Gold Room from a club with a high-maintenance, costly lighting display into a venue with an energy saving yet state-of-the-art dynamic lighting system.
(Jim Evans)
