Turbosound installations

Yebis Garden Palace, Tokyo, Japan

Venue: Yebis Garden Palace
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue-type: Concert Hall
Loudspeaker system:
12 x Flashlight TFS-780H
12 x Flashlight TFS-780L

One of the most de-luxe installations of a permanent Turbosound Flashlight system is at the Yebis Garden Place in Tokyo, which has just celebrated its first anniversary. The Garden Place is the result of a huge redevelopment of a former brewery owned by the Sapporo company. More of a town than an entertainment venue, it has luxury apartments, a hotel, department store and shopping mall, restaurants, cinemas and two large halls - it has become the new cultural centre of Tokyo. There are two distinct venues at the Garden Place.

The Garden Hall accommodates 1500 people and is commonly used for rock and pop concerts while the smaller Garden Room seats 300. A wide variety of productions take place at the centre, including fashion shows, exhibitions and corporate events, so the sound system had to be able to deal with all aspects of performance; the budget for the sound installation alone was more than 200 million yen (£1.2 million).

In the Garden Hall, 6 pairs of TFS-780H were flown and 6 pairs of TFS-780L stacked each side of the stage, controlled by Turbosound LMS-780 systems and powered by EPC-780 amplifiers. The Garden Room uses a much smaller system, made up of TMS-3s.

A spokesman for the Garden Place explained that, "in the early days, some customers brought their own sound equipment to the venue, but that practice has stopped completely because nobody has better equipment than we do! The halls are mainly used for concerts by European artists, and their sound engineers are always pleased, sometimes even relieved, when they discover we have Flashlight."

	Yebis Garden Palace, Tokyo, Japan

	Venue: Yebis Garden Palace Location: Tokyo, Japan Venue-type: Concert Hall Loudspeaker system: 12 x Flashlight TFS-780H 12 x Flashlight TFS-780L

	One of the most de-luxe installations of a permanent Turbosound Flashlight system is at the Yebis Garden Place in Tokyo, which has just celebrated its first anniversary. The Garden Place is the result of a huge redevelopment of a former brewery owned by the Sapporo company. More of a town than an entertainment venue, it has luxury apartments, a hotel, department store and shopping mall, restaurants, cinemas and two large halls - it has become the new cultural centre of Tokyo. There are two distinct venues at the Garden Place. The Garden Hall accommodates 1500 people and is commonly used for rock and pop concerts while the smaller Garden Room seats 300. A wide variety of productions take place at the centre, including fashion shows, exhibitions and corporate events, so the sound system had to be able to deal with all aspects of performance; the budget for the sound installation alone was more than 200 million yen (£1.2 million). In the Garden Hall, 6 pairs of TFS-780H were flown and 6 pairs of TFS-780L stacked each side of the stage, controlled by Turbosound LMS-780 systems and powered by EPC-780 amplifiers. The Garden Room uses a much smaller system, made up of TMS-3s. A spokesman for the Garden Place explained that, "in the early days, some customers brought their own sound equipment to the venue, but that practice has stopped completely because nobody has better equipment than we do! The halls are mainly used for concerts by European artists, and their sound engineers are always pleased, sometimes even relieved, when they discover we have Flashlight."