Club Indigo/The Beach has been a popular venue on the Folkestone coastline since its original incarnation as La Parisienne. When the sound system began to repeatedly break down the Gravesend company recommended a system comprising eight Martin Blackline F15s, flown in pairs and angled around the dancefloor.
The foundations of the sound are a block stack of S218 subs, forming a single point source. 10 further Blackline F10s have then been optimized for infilling around the periphery of the venue, processed through an Allen & Heath DR66 DSP and powered by Ecler. Gravesend Sound & Light have also added an Allen & Heath Xone 464 mixer to the roster of DJ equipment already in the console.
At the same time, the Kent sound and light contractors have carried out a second Luminar upgrade in the Medway area - at the Zone in Gillingham. In addition to a new lighting rig, the two-roomed venue now has superior audio coverage thanks to six Blackline F8s, which augment the distribution downstairs, with a further two enclosures in the second room.
The compact, versatile two-way Blackline boxes both feature rotatable horns and give the installer flexible mounting options. The F8 features a long-excursion 8" LF driver and 1" HF compression driver mounted on a CD rotatable 90° x 50° horn - which allows the multi-angle enclosure to be used in either its vertical or horizontal orientation - while the F15 delivers maximum full-frequency slam via a powerful 15"/3" voice coil bass driver and large format 1.4" exit compression driver, with the same rotatable characteristics.
(Lee Baldock)
