EV do the Locomotion

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)

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