The Barbazul Disco in Cuernavaca, Mexico, has a new sound system. Located about a 90-minute drive north of Mexico City, it’s been a popular nightspot for more than two decades.

“We wanted to re-invent ourselves,” explains Cuauhtémoc Rubio, Barbazul’s managing director. “The idea was to woo back our customers from ten years ago and offer them a different entertainment option. We wanted to move away from the image of a discotheque crowded only with very young people.”

The club’s management asked independent contractor Salvador Mata to supply and install a sound system able to produce quality sound and high sound pressure levels for the main dance floor and even coverage for the surrounding bar, VIP areas, and the outdoor terrace.

Mata worked with Meyer Sound Mexico’s Ricardo Marquina and Federico Peña to draft a final design for the main system, which includes four MeyerUPA-2P compact loudspeakers and two 650-P subwoofer, configured as a left-right system. In addition, two UPA-2Ps are splayed 30 degrees apart and one 650-P is ground stacked on both sides of the main dance floor. The bar area is covered by two Meyer UPA-1P compact loudspeakers and two UPM-1P ultra-compact loudspeakers for delayed fill. Two more UPM-1Ps cover the VIP section, while eight MM-4 miniature loudspeakers controlled by an MM-4 CEU unit cover the terrace.

The system installation also included two CP-10S tamper resistant complementary phase parametric equalizers, one VX-1 Program equalizer and one LD-1A Line Driver for system EQ and zone level control. Meyer Sound México’s Peña and Cobos performed final tuning of the system using the SIM System II FFT Analyzer, ensuring that patrons in every zone of the club enjoyed the highest quality sound with seamless coverage.

The club also met its goal of broadening its base of older clientele. As Rubio points out, “With all these new changes, and especially our new sound system, we have succeeded not only in satisfying our customers but also in raising their average age from 20 to 30 years.”

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