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roof - this treatment proved to be very successful. “The second stage was to treat all relevant internal surfaces with sound absorbing material. When I visited the club in late January to commission the system I could hear that the acoustic treatment was of the highest standard as soon as I walked into the room. There were no refl ections from my footsteps or voice - this was a good place to start the audio from. “Nicolas completely understands the importance of audio quality so it had to be pristine and balanced but also a step beyond Cielo,” continued Tony. “The audio equipment brief was for a maxed out, no compromise, statement system. Whatever I suggested as being suffi cient, Nicolas doubled it - he was very serious about this project.” The only way to realise Nicolas’ intent was to give him specifi cally tailored iterations of some of Funktion One’s new technology, which fortunately Tony was in the process of fi nalising. Nevertheless, in many respects Nicolas was not only the fi rst to experience the benefi ts of his progress but he was also the guinea pig. As the saying goes, nothing ventured, nothing gained. “The main dancefl oor area has to accommodate DJ club nights at
one end and a live stage at the other,” said Tony. “We achieved this with a four point system; this was one of the main challenges with the installation, but with such a well treated room, there really weren’t
that many to contend with.” The main room at Output features a hybrid array of two Funktion One R63EH loudspeakers with 90º dispersion and two Funktion One R62EH loudspeakers with 60º dispersion for the mid/high frequencies - along with Funktion One F315 15-inch loudspeakers, which provide the mid-bass frequencies. A further two Funktion One F315 15-inch loudspeakers, two Funktion One F221 subwoofers and four Funktion One BR221 subwoofers are also used in the main room, with power coming from two MC² Audio T2000 amplifi ers, two MC² Audio T3500 amplifi ers and four MC² Audio E90 amplifi ers. With a strong focus on DJs and electronic dance music, Output is also one of the fi rst nightclubs to feature Funktion One’s new PSM318 DJ monitoring system, as Tony explained: “We had originally been working on a specialised monitoring system with DJ Carl Cox, but it later turned out that DJ Richie Hawtin had very similar requirements. They wanted an awful lot of level - some DJs want incredible amounts of volume on stage. They were concerned about the horn-loaded stuff, which is good for projecting sound down the room – horns don’t take any prisoners when you’re only a metre or so from them and the bass waves don’t necessarily develop immediately, they emerge from a horn, so we used direct radiators. We wanted a point source for the mid-bass, the mid and the top, which means
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