Owner Gianluca Renna has just opened the restaurant and live music venue at the Harlock, which has been equipped with a JBL PA system, Crown amplifiers, and a Soundcraft GB8 for front-of-house audio control. The venue is hosting live music four nights a week, and plans are in place to double its capacity by utilising the upper floor, which has a gallery overlooking the stage.
Renna already operates a tour sound rental company, which carries JBL Vertec line array in its inventory. His businesses also include a promotion company, running its own festivals and gigs, a commercial graphic design and printing company, producing flyers and programmes for the festivals and gigs, a record label and recording studio. Having acquired and converted a 19th century mansion on the edge of a park in Brescia, he is now consolidating all his creative business interests there.
La Nave di Harlock (The Ship of Harlock) restaurant accommodates up to 60 diners, but, as a live performance venue, can admit 200. All sound reinforcement equipment for the club was provided by Audio Equipment srl, whose engineers also conceived the sound system design, which is a showcase of Harman professional audio products.
At the front of the system is a 40-channel GB8, one of Soundcraft's most popular analogue mixers, situated on a mezzanine floor just above the bar. This controls a powerful JBL sound reinforcement system comprising AM6215s, with ASB6218V subs, for on-stage PA. 16 x Control 29AV small trapezoidal enclosures are ceiling-mounted throughout the venue as audience fills, with Control SB210s for sub-bass support. The stage monitor system is JBL's SRX712M 12" wedges, mixed from the Soundcraft GB8 at front-of-house. All amplification is Crown I-Tech and XTi Series. The system uses a rackful of Lexicon and dbx processing, and all stage microphones are by AKG.
(Lee Baldock)
