Turbosound installations

The Warehouse

Venue: The Warehouse
Location: Bristol, UK
Venue-type: Bar / restaurant
Loudspeaker system:
TXD series
Impact series

TXD loudspeaker systems have been installed throughout The Warehouse, a student-only club and bar/restaurant complex on Bristol's waterfront.

An increasingly common sight in clubs and bars around the world, Turbosound TXD systems have developed a strong reputation for sound quality and value, with system design company M32 Audio & Lighting, installing some twenty TXD loudspeakers at The Warehouse. M32's installation also includes Turbosound Impact 50 loudspeakers, deployed in the venue's bar and VIP areas.

The internal structure of The Warehouse is focused around a main ground-level dance floor and bar area, with multiple mezzanine levels above, and the venue also includes the El Puerto restaurant. Apart from the sub-bass enclosures, all the loudspeakers have been ceiling-flown, with the majority of the units hidden amongst the venue's wooden beams. M32 has deployed a combination of four TXD-151 systems and two TXD-215 low-frequency enclosures for the main ground-level dance floor, complemented by two TXD-121's in the adjoining bar area, and with a further TXD-121 for DJ monitoring. The various mezzanine levels include a second dance floor - equipped with TXD-121's and TXD-118 subs - and an additional bar, which features four Impact 50 units. A chill-out zone on the uppermost mezzanine is also equipped with Impact 50's. M32 equipped the El Puerto restaurant with four TXD-081 systems, plus two TSB-110 sub-bass units, with eight Impact 50 speakers - configured across two zones - used as fills throughout the restaurant. And to ensure no-one need feel deprived of quality music wherever they are in the venue, even the toilets feature Impact 50 systems, delayed to match the restaurant's main system!

Jerey Denning, of Bristol-based M32 Audio & Lighting, commented:
"Our brief for this project was to arrive at a system that could provide a high quality, impressive-sounding solution at a sensible price, and Turbosound's TXD products have proved perfectly suited to the task - they really do sound phenomenal for the budget. The Warehouse is an out and out student venue, and has to cater for a huge spread of music types and styles. With requirements ranging from different club nights to private parties in the restaurant area, and with each event needing its own sound, it was imperative that we came up with a flexible and capable, multi-purpose system.The acoustics of the multi-mezzanine format did present us with a few challenges, although these were solved by carefully time-aligning between the floors and adjusting the relative levels to suit."

The size of the TXD systems is a further advantage, making a visually unobtrusive install much easier, while the little Impact 50's simply disappear from sight mounted up in the beams. We also had to make sure that the user interface was kept as straightforward as possible, and we have utilised AudiaSOLO DSP units, particularly for the restaurant, with wall-panel access to pre-sets for different styles of music - you simply hit a button for dance, reggae, rock, etc. Overall, the project has proved to be very successful, and The Warehouse has attracted many compliments for its sound quality - even from other clubs!

	The Warehouse

	Venue: The Warehouse Location: Bristol, UK Venue-type: Bar / restaurant Loudspeaker system: TXD series Impact series

	TXD loudspeaker systems have been installed throughout The Warehouse, a student-only club and bar/restaurant complex on Bristol's waterfront. An increasingly common sight in clubs and bars around the world, Turbosound TXD systems have developed a strong reputation for sound quality and value, with system design company M32 Audio & Lighting, installing some twenty TXD loudspeakers at The Warehouse. M32's installation also includes Turbosound Impact 50 loudspeakers, deployed in the venue's bar and VIP areas. The internal structure of The Warehouse is focused around a main ground-level dance floor and bar area, with multiple mezzanine levels above, and the venue also includes the El Puerto restaurant. Apart from the sub-bass enclosures, all the loudspeakers have been ceiling-flown, with the majority of the units hidden amongst the venue's wooden beams. M32 has deployed a combination of four TXD-151 systems and two TXD-215 low-frequency enclosures for the main ground-level dance floor, complemented by two TXD-121's in the adjoining bar area, and with a further TXD-121 for DJ monitoring. The various mezzanine levels include a second dance floor - equipped with TXD-121's and TXD-118 subs - and an additional bar, which features four Impact 50 units. A chill-out zone on the uppermost mezzanine is also equipped with Impact 50's. M32 equipped the El Puerto restaurant with four TXD-081 systems, plus two TSB-110 sub-bass units, with eight Impact 50 speakers - configured across two zones - used as fills throughout the restaurant. And to ensure no-one need feel deprived of quality music wherever they are in the venue, even the toilets feature Impact 50 systems, delayed to match the restaurant's main system! Jerey Denning, of Bristol-based M32 Audio & Lighting, commented: "Our brief for this project was to arrive at a system that could provide a high quality, impressive-sounding solution at a sensible price, and Turbosound's TXD products have proved perfectly suited to the task - they really do sound phenomenal for the budget. The Warehouse is an out and out student venue, and has to cater for a huge spread of music types and styles. With requirements ranging from different club nights to private parties in the restaurant area, and with each event needing its own sound, it was imperative that we came up with a flexible and capable, multi-purpose system.The acoustics of the multi-mezzanine format did present us with a few challenges, although these were solved by carefully time-aligning between the floors and adjusting the relative levels to suit." The size of the TXD systems is a further advantage, making a visually unobtrusive install much easier, while the little Impact 50's simply disappear from sight mounted up in the beams. We also had to make sure that the user interface was kept as straightforward as possible, and we have utilised AudiaSOLO DSP units, particularly for the restaurant, with wall-panel access to pre-sets for different styles of music - you simply hit a button for dance, reggae, rock, etc. Overall, the project has proved to be very successful, and The Warehouse has attracted many compliments for its sound quality - even from other clubs!