For La Cova's owners, David Pecharroman and Coral MartÃnez, the move is the latest chapter in a long relationship with QSC Spain, and specifically their sales manager for Catalonia and the Balearics, Ezequiel Mayoral.
Inside the all-white interior, with its long rectilinear shape, Tony Espin masterminded the installation for DJ Factory to ensure not only even distribution, but via a series of system presets optimised the sound depending on whether the venue would be presenting live music, comedic speech or hard dance playback from the highly-specified DJ station.
"The whole idea was to provide LaCova with maximum versatility for minimum investment," says Mayoral.
Thus the venue has been equipped with six flown AcousticDesign AD-S282H dual 8" enclosures and six ground-stacked HPR-151s as its main surround system, with two HPR-122's on chains angled over the small performance podium to provide conventional PA. At the rear of the room are a pair of AD-S82Hs, which incorporate QSC's IntelliDock intelligent mounting system, providing rear in-fill on delays. The passive speakers are powered by QSC RMX-1450 amplifiers.
Different speaker settings and gain structures are programmed into QSC's DSP 322ua operating on the QSControl.net platform, and these are accessed according to mode.
"The AD-S282H strikes the right balance between size and stylish looks, and blends in perfectly with the white décor," continues QSC Spain's sales manager. This place gets really crowded and when you are doing comedy you need high SPL and a lot of vocal intelligibility. "
(Jim Evans)
