New System At Nashville’s 3rd & Lindsey Features Yamaha, NEXO Components

3rd & Lindsley has long been known by Nashville locals and entertainment professionals as the place to be from a performance venue to a locals gathering spot perspective. It has hosted performances by international, national, and regional artists such as Train, William Topley, Wilco, d. c. Talk, Sister Hazel, Jars of Clay, Rodney Crowell, Radney Foster, KT Tunstall, Indigo Girls, Patty Griffin, and Lady Antebellum.

The venue continues to be one of the most intimate performance venues for live music, and the club recently installed a new sound system, holding its grand re-opening with a free concert during Summer NAMM featuring The Kentucky Headhunters.

The system was installed by J Sound Services of Nashville and includes two NEXO PS15 R2 loudspeakers per side with two RS18 subs configured in cardioid mode, a NEXO 4×4 NXAmp, and Yamaha LS9-32 digital audio console.

A NEXO PS10 that 3rd & Lindsley already owned was redeployed for fill in the VIP section, with PS15s already in use as floor monitors.

“When I first came to Nashville, 3rd & Lindsley was the first venue where friends from the Diamond Rio band brought me,” states Jason Spence, owner of J Sound Services. “So, it’s an amazing treat and honor for me to have my company provide the venue’s new sound system.”

3rd & Lindsley owner Ron Brice and production manager Kathy Mac began talking about a new system with J Sound Services two years ago, and determined that this was the year to move forward. “Both Ron and Kathy are huge Yamaha and NEXO fans, and they wanted to continue their reputation for great sound with Yamaha and NEXO, while at the same time stepping it up a notch with a new system,” Spence says.

Although the club had its last performance using their previous space and system on the Saturday before the start of Summer NAMM, the construction on the new venue had been going on for a couple of months on the other side of an existing wall between the old and new space.

Once the venue closed, the wall came down and work was performed around the clock for the next four days. The transition began by updating their Yamaha analog mixer with the Yamaha LS9-32 digital mixer, giving the sound crew time to get up to speed with the new board before installing the new PA system.

The loudspeakers were flown on the Sunday after closing the existing space followed by tuning, in time to kick off Summer NAMM.

Spence used NEXO NS-1 design software to build a 3D model of the new venue’s listening areas. Together with Mac and Chris Sullivan from J Sound Services performing the system tuning, the team came up with coverage of the listening area of no more than 1 dB of variance.

Owner Brice states, “We went from a bar that had music to a music venue that happens to have a bar.”

Yamaha/NEXO

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