Turbosound installations

Skye

Venue: Skye
Location: Belfast
Venue-type: Nightclub
Loudspeaker system:
QLight series
TCS series
Impact series

Making a major impact on Belfast's new nitespot, 49 Turbosound speakers were installed as part of a highly specified sound system.

The line-up at Skye includes 16 Impact 80 enclosures, as well as various QLight models. Designed and installed by RG Design Light & Sound (Omagh, County Tyrone), Skye's sound system joins the growing ranks of clubs around the world that have taken advantage of the QLight loudspeakers' attributes, which combine compactness and clarity with power-handling and installation versatility.

Colum O'Neill, RG Design's Technical Director, outlined the project: "Skye's Entertainment Manager, Eamon Beagon, came to see us with a requirement for a top-quality system, to tie in with the club's high-end image. He was interested in using a Turbosound-based system, as he had heard a number of our Turbosound installations in other clubs and had been impressed with the results. Due to space constraints, the design called for compact enclosures, and QLight systems can certainly produce the goods, achieving high SPLs from the small boxes. We have achieved an even sound coverage throughout the club, with the quieter areas providing good sound quality without inappropriately excessive levels, but with plenty of punch in the zones that need it. The results have pleased everyone, including the DJs, and over 500 people had to be turned away on the club's opening night!"

Accommodating up to 1200 people, Skye is conceived as a top-end club and bar facility, and is designed around three main zones - a combined VIP lounge and members' area; a downstairs club bar with pool tables, plus the dance floor and DJ areas. The dance floor zone features four QLight TQ-440 enclosures and four TQ-425 sub-woofers, with four TQ-310 units providing coverage off the dance floor itself. A further two TQ-310 units have been installed in the DJ booth, along with a TQ-115 sub-bass. An LMS-D6 loudspeaker management system controls the system in the dance floor zone, and the DJ booth has been equipped with an Allen & Heath Xone:62 mixer, three Technics SL-1200 turntables, and two Pioneer CDJ-1000 jog-dial CD players.

Installed in the VIP lounge are eight TCS-35 compact trapezoidal two-ways, two TQ-115 and eight TL-1500 sub-bass units, while the design for the downstairs area incorporates a distributed system of sixteen Impact 80 enclosures, backed up by eight TQ-115 sub-bass models. Crest Audio power amplifiers are used throughout Skye, operating with BSS Audio Soundweb systems and Jellyfish controllers.

RG Design Light & Sound has a 20-year history of providing sound, lighting and A/V systems across both Northern and Southern Ireland, including numerous club installations, and with many recent projects featuring Turbosound loudspeaker systems. The company's long-standing experience and success in the club market is also attracting interest in its services from mainland UK. RG Design received Turbosound's Best Newcomer Award earlier this year, in recognition of the number of Turbosound models that the company has installed in its relatively short history of using the brand.

	Skye

	Venue: Skye Location: Belfast Venue-type: Nightclub Loudspeaker system: QLight series TCS series Impact series

	Making a major impact on Belfast's new nitespot, 49 Turbosound speakers were installed as part of a highly specified sound system. The line-up at Skye includes 16 Impact 80 enclosures, as well as various QLight models. Designed and installed by RG Design Light & Sound (Omagh, County Tyrone), Skye's sound system joins the growing ranks of clubs around the world that have taken advantage of the QLight loudspeakers' attributes, which combine compactness and clarity with power-handling and installation versatility. Colum O'Neill, RG Design's Technical Director, outlined the project: "Skye's Entertainment Manager, Eamon Beagon, came to see us with a requirement for a top-quality system, to tie in with the club's high-end image. He was interested in using a Turbosound-based system, as he had heard a number of our Turbosound installations in other clubs and had been impressed with the results. Due to space constraints, the design called for compact enclosures, and QLight systems can certainly produce the goods, achieving high SPLs from the small boxes. We have achieved an even sound coverage throughout the club, with the quieter areas providing good sound quality without inappropriately excessive levels, but with plenty of punch in the zones that need it. The results have pleased everyone, including the DJs, and over 500 people had to be turned away on the club's opening night!" Accommodating up to 1200 people, Skye is conceived as a top-end club and bar facility, and is designed around three main zones - a combined VIP lounge and members' area; a downstairs club bar with pool tables, plus the dance floor and DJ areas. The dance floor zone features four QLight TQ-440 enclosures and four TQ-425 sub-woofers, with four TQ-310 units providing coverage off the dance floor itself. A further two TQ-310 units have been installed in the DJ booth, along with a TQ-115 sub-bass. An LMS-D6 loudspeaker management system controls the system in the dance floor zone, and the DJ booth has been equipped with an Allen & Heath Xone:62 mixer, three Technics SL-1200 turntables, and two Pioneer CDJ-1000 jog-dial CD players. Installed in the VIP lounge are eight TCS-35 compact trapezoidal two-ways, two TQ-115 and eight TL-1500 sub-bass units, while the design for the downstairs area incorporates a distributed system of sixteen Impact 80 enclosures, backed up by eight TQ-115 sub-bass models. Crest Audio power amplifiers are used throughout Skye, operating with BSS Audio Soundweb systems and Jellyfish controllers. RG Design Light & Sound has a 20-year history of providing sound, lighting and A/V systems across both Northern and Southern Ireland, including numerous club installations, and with many recent projects featuring Turbosound loudspeaker systems. The company's long-standing experience and success in the club market is also attracting interest in its services from mainland UK. RG Design received Turbosound's Best Newcomer Award earlier this year, in recognition of the number of Turbosound models that the company has installed in its relatively short history of using the brand.