A new dance venue - called ‘The Locomotion’ - has opened its doors in the Dutch town of Zoetermeer. The new 2,000-capacity discotheque is equally suitable as a venue for live performance, and its sound system takes both applications into account. The owners and Electric Audio BV, the Dutch Electro-Voice distributor, decided in favour of an extensive Electro-Voice system. After a three-day installation period, the test run was a great success: "Our customers were enormously impressed with the combination of very high sound pressure levels and a complete absence of distortion," remembers Axel Nagtegaal. Then it was the turn of the disco people to test the power reserves of the system. "They, too, were highly enthusiastic - above all about the unbelievable bass kick. One sound engineer even commented that you could blow dry your hair with it!"The equipment installed in The Locomotion includes four EV Xi-1183, four EV X-sub, 10 EV Sx-100 and 20 EV EVID 4.2 enclosures, plus two EV SX-A250 DJ monitors. Power is provided via EV’s P-3000 and P-2000 amplifiers.
(Lee Baldock)
