The installation division of Sound Stage Lighting Live (SSL Live, Lancashire, UK) has been busy installing a combination of Martin Audio CDD, ADORN and BlacklineX series loudspeakers on a variety of projects, most recently at Lytham House, a multizone bar/restaurant owned by Red Fox & Peacock Ltd that’s located at the coastal resort of Lytham, on the Fylde coast.
Run by Ross Robinson, the company’s other venues—The Eagle at Weeton, The Ship at Freckleton and The Queen’s Hotel, Lytham—are already equipped with Martin Audio loudspeakers from SSL Live. The Lythan House site, a former Italian restaurant on a large plot, was left empty for two years and was eventually purchased by a local building contractor. It was promptly leased back to Robinson’s company and the interior designers set to work in creating a multi-zonal venue incorporating restaurants (private and public), bars and a dance floor area in the main restaurant.
SSL Live deployed four Martin Audio CDD8s, providing 360-degree dispersion, around the large steel tree that bores up through the center, with four CDD5 providing dance floor in fill,and a pair of SX212 subs situated left and right of the stage. The dining alcoves are serviced by three ADORN A55s. There are DJ plug-in points, and DJs have the extra bonus of hearing their reference sound through a pair of Blackline X10 loudspeakers.
Mounted in the top of the tree in the upstairs dining area are four ADORN A40 while four wall-mounted CDD6 maintain both consistency and coverage pattern. Meanwhile, sound reinforcement in the front bar area is provided by six ADORN A55s, with a SX110 sub discreetly sited under the seating, and the two private dining rooms are respectively catered for with another four ADORN A55s in each.
An ADORN A40 links the sound on the stairs, with the photo booth likewise equipped, and in the ancillary areas and toilets are a selection of C4.8T ceiling loudspeakers (with a pair of ADORN A55s allocated to the men’s toilets).
The sound is processed and routed through a BSS Soundweb digital environment, with local remote control at the bars, and to further ease operation of both sound and lighting (which SSL Live also provided) is a custom iPad lighting control and music playback system.
Two further Woolton-based licensed operations are now earmarked for development, one of them a high-caliber unit that will mirror Lytham House in terms of quality, and both will incorporate Martin Audio components for sound reinforcement.
