Officially opened on September 15, Barfly Birmingham incorporates two rooms, both of which have been equipped with Noise Control's proprietary speakers. The company was also responsible for adjusting the venue's acoustics to improve overall sound quality and for specifying and supplying all other audio equipment used throughout the club.
Steve Stavrinides, director of sales for Noise Control, says: "For this particular venue we installed our new NFA concert system, which has gone through several revamps over the past few years and has now had its final jacket fitted. Barfly Birmingham is the first club to have the new NFA Series installed as a permanent installation."
The PA system in the main room includes 4 x VSB 218 subs; 4 x RGW 112 bass enclosures and 4 x TMT600 mid/hi enclosures and 1 x DF215 for a drum fill, plus 2 x VSB 215 / and 3 x BS 112's are awaiting manufacture for the back room. FFA amplifiers have been used for the bass and subs in the main room for maximum bass extension and clarity.
NCA's relationship with The Barfly Group dates back to the mid 1990s when Reay Grant, now NCA's head of R&D, worked there as a sound engineer. In recent years NCA has been advising Barfly on how to improve the quality of the sound in its London venue (The Monarch) and has also installed its speakers at Barfly Liverpool.
Jeremy Ledlin, managing director of the Barfly Group, says: "We have worked with the Noise Control team since the days when only one Barfly PA system existed - and that was in the back room of a Camden pub. We now have six venues operating in the UK - in London, Cardiff, Liverpool, Glasgow, York and Birmingham - plus Ibiza rocks @ Manumission in Ibiza. In total we have 12 PA systems with most of them running seven days a week."
(Jim Evans)
