After two years of continuous use, Mumbai's premier nightspot, Poison has been renovated and re-opened in October. Club owner Aqueel, one of India's top DJs, loved his original Ohm TRS system but wanted to upgrade to something "out of this world" says the company.
Harness reworked the system completely and after carefully studying the venue suggested a Saturn system. Given seven days to reinstall the system, it was completed two days before the official opening. "Poison now has a three way active system, which not only rocks the venue but sounds sweet like honey. It is now truly an 'iron glove in a velvet hand.'" says Harness principal, Lalit Chopra.
The 6000sq.ft club has a 2000sq.ft foot dance floor, three VIP decks and three bars. The Ohm system was based on three-way Saturns installed on all four corners of the dance floor. Further reinforced was provided by four TRS 112s as a centre cluster. The BR-218B subs are all placed under the VIP deck; hence are completely invisible. BR-8 wide angle dispersion cabinets cover the VIP areas. CFU amplifiers and a CRED sound management system complete the installation.
Bottle and Chimney is one of the most successful lounge bars in Hyderabad. Owned by Sanjay Batla it is a five-year old venue. He had close to twenty-two cabinets with at least ten amplifiers driving the sound in his venue and still it did not have enough power so Harness was entrusted to re-design the audio and lighting system of the venue. Batla wanted a clean looking venue with the minimum number of good looking speakers that would be powerful enough for his DJ.
With a total of 5000sq.ft between the two floors Harness used a combination of Ohm's new horn loaded single 18" TRS 118H and the 12" + 1.5" composite horn TRS112H. "When Mr Batla and the DJ were told that only three CFU-A3 amplifiers were needed to drive six subs and four tops in a three-way active configuration they could not believe it" says Lalit. "It was only on that early afternoon when the system was fired up and aligned the whole Bottle and Chimney staff were impressed with at the energy range and clarity of the system."
(Claire Beeson)
