The leisure company - run by Josh Simons, Alan Simons and John Tyror - also run the Landmark restaurant in the town. They enlisted Mark Neal's Production Hire to carry out the installation.
The conversion of the 840-capacity, former K-Bar has been inspired. The ground floor dance room (and adjacent tented chill area) lead down to a VIP mezzanine room and further down still to the main room in the basement.
Wherever you look there are snugs and annexe rooms to chill out in - and they are invariably served by one of Martin Audio's architectural AQ series speakers, and illuminated by the Pulsar Chroma range, operated from Dynalite wall panels, with various presets programmed into Pharos boxes.
The main house system features a combination of Martin Audio Blacklines and ground stacks of Wavefront 8s in front of the DJ booths on each floor. "I use Blackline for aggression and cut on the dancefloor - and for DJ monitoring," says Neal. "It has that bite anywhere you need it. The AQs produce a smooth, transparent sound and are perfect for the bar areas."
Production Hire have presented two highly-specified control booths in the different dance rooms - and all the speakers throughout are finished in white, to match the interior décor. Production Hire runs 24 Wavefront 8's in their hire stock, and while half of these have been reconditioned for deployment on long-term lease to 2020, all the AQs and Blacklines are owned by the venue.
On the ground floor, two stacks of Wavefront W8 and W8S complement sets of AQ12 and AQ8s - as well as the F10 DJ monitors. In the large tented area, guests chill out in the former conservatory, with music delivered at reduced volume through another pair of AQ8s.
For the mezzanine VIP lounge - where a permanent DJ booth has been set up - there are two further AQ8's. The stairway then leads down to the deceptively large main club, with its resin-coated floor. Here are two ground stacks, each comprising of two W8 and two W8S, and a pair of F10s, while a further pair of F10s serve as DJ monitors.
Multiples of AQ12 provide the in-fills with further bass extension coming from a pair of AQ215 floor-mounted subs, while a pair of AQ6s service this floor's dedicated chill-out bar.
(Jim Evans)
