Responsible for the installation was Sound Control's Tudor, who specified four Nexo PS10s, suspended from a roof girder, with a pair of ground-stacked LS500 bass bins on Speakon extenders to enable them to be moved nearer to the audience if required. Tudor explained: "Simon was a customer of mine when I worked at the Sheffield branch of Sound Control. He told me he had taken over this derelict building and the speakers had to be both black and compact to fit in with the discrete nature of the venue and the décor. The Nexo PS10s were the obvious choice."
The owner requested the same standard when it came to floor monitors, which needed to have the ability to provide powerful reference sound from a small footprint, to fit the compact nature of the stage. For this, Tudor selected four Wharfedale co-axial two-way Twin 12s. These cost-effective loudspeakers are designed to perform in either FOH or monitor loudspeaker mode.
The main house system is powered by a pair of Crown MA 3600VZs and the floor monitors by a pair of Crown MA602s, which - like the Nexo speakers - were supplied by UK distributors Fuzion plc.
The venue also boasts a processing system based around a Soundcraft Spirit 24-channel LX7 mixing console. Tudor specified this because he says: "It provides more auxes and more flexibility with the monitor mixes, as well as superior EQ." He also praised the provision of the sub groups. The LX7 series provides 24, 32 or 40 inputs, depending on chassis size, with no less than seven separate bus outputs including mix, four groups and a dedicated mono bus for centre speaker clusters, side or rear fills.
The outboard rack at the One Eleven includes TC Electronic M1-X and Lexicon MPX 500 effects processors plus Behringer compressors and EQ. A Pulsar Rockdesk controls the generic Par 56 stage lighting and dimmer packs. With an interior design scheme conceived by Ian Cheetham of EC Design, the club will present live music five nights a week. First bands booked include Tito Puente with his Afro-Cuban All Stars.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
