For the past three years, they have been working with owner / operator Franco Lumbar, whose portfolio includes Club Essence in Kingston and the Pink gentleman's club in Windsor; however the most significant has been the recent renovation of Club Vanilla, situated at Windsor's Royal Arcade.
MSL project manager Bradley Watson says that wherever possible the audio distribution will be placed in a digital BSS Soundweb London environment to preserve signal fidelity and increase flexibility and processing power; Club Vanilla is no exception.
Club Vanilla had been operating from its subterranean site for a number of years before MSL were called in to overhaul the venue's lighting and audio system.
Following a busy Christmas and New Year trading period, the venue closed its doors for a complete building transformation, which saw the interior opened up to create more space and provide new VIP booth seating areas, along with a new live sound stage and members bar area.
Bradley Watson set out to re-design the existing audio infrastructure and extend the network to cover the three zones, which include the expanded dancefloor space.
Elsewhere, a new BSS Soundweb London audio management system has been selected for the front end user interface, allowing the operators to seamlessly switch between the DJ and Live Sound inputs. Having EQ'd the venue using the Smaart Live audio analyzer, MSL head engineer Toby Jones has again designed a comprehensive sound file to allow for the varying applications within the Windsor club, offering a one touch solution for the venue staff.
To create a variable gain structure and allow routing of the signal source to the different zones he used a Harman Pro HiQnet-compatible Soundweb 12-in/8-out London BLU-100, with a pair of BLU-BOB2 breakout boxes, increasing the output possibilities to 24.
A London BLU-8 programmable wall controller and BLU-10 programmable touch interface provide local source select and volume control options, powered over Ethernet.
(Jim Evans)
