050 REPORT
MESA VERDE
Company: Quest Location: Melbourne, Australia
For those craving Mesoamerican in Melbourne Australia, Mesa Verde is the place to park your sombrero. Offering a slick menu of Mexican-inspired dishes alongside an impressive list of 240 tequilas, it isn’t hard to earn a hangover at this slick little venue. The interior fit out is inspired by the 1971 Sergio Leone western ‘Duck, You Sucker’ (aka A Fistful of Dynamite). The style is noticeably spaghetti western, complimented by a splash of Tasmanian Blackwood furnishings. With so much work going into achieving this particular look and feel, the audiovisual element had to be carefully considered. The last thing any venue architect would want when designing a custom venue like this, is to have a sound designer suddenly arrive with a selection of obtrusive loudspeakers. Enter the Quest HPI ultra compact speakers. For Mesa Verde, a combination using four of the more compact offerings were chosen, the HPI5, HPI25, HPI12S and HPI212S. The HPI5 is a high output 360W single five-inch plus one inch that comes in under 25cm in height. The HPI25 is a dual five-inch
plus one-inch model only 44cm in height. In the low frequency department, the HPI12S is an extremely compact 12-inch subwoofer, while the HPI212S offers a compact dual 12-inch subwoofer solution. These almost miniature high powered club systems have been purpose designed for applications that require full bodied, high output sound without the big visual footprint many loudspeakers possess by nature. Installed around the venue in multiple zones, the distribution of the HPI5’s throughout Mesa Verde essentially cocooned the patrons in sound. The sonic fidelity and power of the HPI5 system creates a warm atmosphere while the zone control allows for areas of the venue to be high SPL where required. Due to some particular restrictions on speaker placement to satisfy architectural considerations, three additional HPI25 speakers were positioned over the bar. By reflecting these off a parallel wall, the impression of a much larger system was achieved with vir- tually no speakers in sight. The HPI212S was built into the base of the DJ booth complementing the venue aesthetics while the HPI12S was hidden completely due to its extremely compact size. The growing popularity of the HPI Series, particularly the compact options have already found their way into impressive venues such as Mesa Verde delivering a club style PA without the aggressive space or visual challenges faced with these installs using more traditional products.
www.questaudio.com.au
WEST PARK
Company: Nexo Location: Ingoldstadt, Germany
German system integrator Show‘Em, which works exclusively with Nexo loud- speakers, has installed a GEO system into the Plaza area of the West Park shop- ping centre, Ingoldstadt. West Park is one of the biggest shopping malls in South Germany. At its centre is the multipurpose Plaza, a large, glass-ceilinged space which can accommodate around 700 people. Here, West Park regularly puts on community events such as live concerts, classical events, dances, gala bingo, boxing matches and chess tournaments, as well as showing sporting events on the Plaza’s large video wall. “The owner and the architect wanted to have a discreet sound system, which meant no bass cabinets on the floor or flown,” explained Show‘Em’s CEO Christian Eck. “While this clean look, and the size of the array, was important to the archi- tect, the owner’s priority was to have a powerful system.” Show’Em hit on an ingenious solution for this dilemma. Using NEXOSoft acoustic simulation software for system design, the company came up with a permanently installed L-R system of three Nexo S1210 and one Nexo S1230 compact two-way cabinets per side. The hangs are suspended five metres above the floor at an 11º horizontal angle, controlled with a Nexo NX242 digital TDcontroller and powered by a Camco Vortex 200 and a Vortex 6 amplifier. However when West Park puts on dance events or live bands, it can rent in Nexo bass cabinets from Show’Em to supplement the unobtrusive main system. According to Christian, this efficient design, using just four cabinets per side, pro- duces good coverage which can be heard into the corridors of the centre. “The angle was tricky, so we used Nexo’s simulation software to get it right,” he said. “Most other speakers wouldn’t have stood a chance. “After the first few events, the owner and architect were very pleased with how easy it has been to produce a clear sound for hundreds of people without a big array. In line with the client’s requirements, the system really does look small and discreet.”
www.nexo.fr
www.mondodr.com
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