The man responsible for the installation of Tannoy products was Bryce Keachie, audio consultant with Keachie Electronics, who has been involved in a number of projects with the restaurant chain.
"We do all of DiMaggios Group's audio, and have done for the past eight or nine years," said Keachie. "The group own a chain of restaurants under different brands, and we have worked across a number of their establishments. When the project came up for Amarone in Edinburgh and Barolo Grill in Glasgow, we knew that we needed the most up to do date audio solutions available."
Both restaurants are situated in very different surroundings, and the architecture and interior design of each meant that Keachie had to deploy some different solutions across the two establishments.
"In all restaurants, it's always light background to medium foreground music, depending on what sort of events they might be having," he said. "In Barolo Grill, there is a private room, which should the client want they can provide their own music, and that is restricted to their own room. However, the architecture of both places meant we couldn't specify the same solution."
For Aramone in Edinburgh, this meant that hehad to specify a speaker that could be surface mounted, and that was economically viable. For this, he chose Tannoy's new DVS Series, which were specifically designed for a wide variety of discrete small-to-medium scale sound reinforcement applications.
Over in Barolo Grill in Glasgow, the refurbishment meant that Keachie could look at an in-ceiling solution, and again specified Tannoy, this time going for the CVS Series.
"Tannoy's best-selling dedicated in-ceiling range, CVS Series, were an ideal choice as they were very aesthetically pleasing and also offered superior sonic ability within the space," he said. "In the end we used 16 CVS 6s and three CVS 4s, which gave us an ideal spread of coverage and flexibility."
Again, the new loudspeakers were easily integrated with the existing Cloud z4 mixer and Cloud amplification set up that was in place.
(Jim Evans)
