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Meyer Files: Club Sound In Montreal and San Francisco
(Editor’s Note: This article contains a new PSW Install Section feature. By clicking on the product model name, you’ll automatically link to that product’s specific data page on the manufacturer’s web site.) Newtown, a new, four-story club in Montreal, offers three large house sound systems. Providing the pro-audio equipment for Newtown's multiple floors of entertainment was Solotech of Montreal, which specified roughly 30 self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers for these systems. All levels of the club, with the exception of the restaurant, includes its own DJ booth and sound system. The lower level club offers a deep-set illuminated dance floor and sub-bass provided by four Meyer 650-P subwoofers. This room's main system a combination of four Meyer self-powered CQ-2 full-range loudspeakers supplemented by Meyer UPM-1Ps or delay fill in the raised seating around the perimeter of the room. The main level includes a large central bar with a wide variety
of wines and liqueurs, with main loudspeakers distributed around
the bar, aimed outward toward the lounge area. Loudspeakers here
include 12 Meyer
UPM-1Ps and four UMS-1P
subwoofers.
"With this system, we tried to recreate a good hi-fi system with professional speakers," commented Pascal Castonguay, project manager for Solotech. "We achieved it with UPMs and UMS-1Ps." The second club level houses restaurant, while the roof level terrace offers guests an ever-changing mix of DJ performance reinforced by four Meyer UPA-1Ps and two USW-1P subwoofers. "The club sounds just great," concludes Castonguay. "The minute we put the system on, the customer was happy. We only had a few room adjustments and that was it. For once, the EQs are really used to EQ the room, not the system. The fact that the box is protected removes a lot of headaches; the DJ can play really loud and he is unlikely to blow a thing." San Francisco's new Snodrift club and restaurant has been designed to attract top artists and clientele, a factor in the selection of Meyer self-powered loudspeakers, according to John Russell, owner of the club. It took Russell and his business partners nearly six months to
get the space just the way they wanted it, which included installing
a completely new electrical system. Soon after they moved in, one
of the local promoters suggested a Meyer system for the large back
room of the club.
"I thought of the back room as a more refined space," Russell recalled, "so I was interested in getting equipment that was a cut above average." Russell consulted with John Monitto, Meyer Sound's technical sales support manager, who specified a system of four UPA-2P compact narrow coverage loudspeakers, two 650-P subwoofers and two Meyer CP-10S parametric equalizers. "The Meyer system has worked out very well," he continued. "You can bump up the system as high as you want and it doesn't distort; it doesn't even bend."
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