Level 3, which occupies over 2000sq.m in a former Planet Hollywood on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, sprawls across three floors and features a large dance floor, a VIP area and balcony seating. The club offers patrons five bars, two downstairs, two upstairs and one on an exclusive third level, the source of the club's name.
For the main level, Walters specified four custom-built Turbosound TFL-768 Floodlight-Series speakers, comprising a TFL-760 with a TSW-718 built onto the bottom. "They're Floodlights with an 18" subwoofer folded in, and they sit on top of four TSW-721 speakers," he explains. The TSW-721 is a concert touring-quality bass enclosure containing a single 21" low frequency driver on a TurboBass device. On the club's mezzanine area overlooking the main dance floor, four TCS-40 passive two-way speakers fitted with two 8" LF drivers and a 1" HF compression driver entice the crowd to party-on. Walters positioned the speakers at the rear of the mezzanine, where champagne-guzzling VIP guests can "feel the music".
In the VIP champagne room, Walters installed two TCS-59 passive full-range, two-way enclosures consisting of a 12" LF driver and a 1" HF compression driver. Complementing these units is a single TCS-215 front-loaded subwoofer using two high-efficiency, three-inch voice coil, 15" low frequency drivers. Rounding out the system are two Turbosound QLight TQ-315 monitors for the DJ area. The TQ-315 enclosures are trapezoidal, switchable bi-amped/passive two-way speakers, with a 15" LF driver and a three-inch diaphragm HF driver on a rotatable 80° by 50° Converging Elliptical Waveguide.
Crest CA amplifiers power the system, while four Turbosound LMS-D6 digital controllers handle the crossover, delay, parametric EQ and limiter functions. In Walters' configuration, two controllers serve the speakers on the main level, while one handles the DJ monitors and the remainder controls speakers in the dance floor/bar area.
(Ruth Rossington)
