Sound Division's David Graham explained that the brief was to refurbish and upgrade the existing Bose installation and reconfigure it into a multi-zone system. "Stage one of the project was to replace and zone the upstairs level which comprises three sections; the main lounge bar; an intimate 'Cocoon' bar for 6-8 people which can be hired out on a private basis; and a walkway which connects the two." The system is based on the Bose Freestyle Cube range of loudspeakers, driven by Cloud amplification and controlled by a Cloud Z4 Mk2 6-in, 4-out zone venue mixer. The music source is a C Burn hard disk music management system. "In fact, we did such a good job on the upstairs section that Itsu's management team decided to release more budget so that we could do the downstairs restaurant areas as well!" said Graham. To this end, Sound Division replaced all of the existing ceiling speakers with JBL Control 24C micro ceiling speakers and created a further zone to be controlled via the Cloud processor."
Itsu's Dan Levine said of Sound Division: "They worked cleanly and efficiently causing minimum disruption for our customers, and I'm very pleased with the results. It looks and sounds so much better than it did, and it's extremely easy to operate and control. In fact, once the work upstairs was completed, the difference between the existing system downstairs and the new one upstairs was so flagrant that we had no choice but to ask Sound Division to replace the restaurant system as well!"
(Lee Baldock)
