Built over two floors, the Volt Club is owned by Volt Productions, a company which already runs a successful nightclub operation in Uganda. Taking over two former club venues, Volt has fully refurbished and soundproofed the space, addressing the problems of noise leakage that were causing complaints from residential neighbours. Walls, ceiling and floors have been acoustically treated; even the fire exits are now connected to the club's sound system, so that if anyone opens a door, the music immediately shuts off.
For the Volt Club's main dancefloor, a powerful Electro-Voice Rx system has been specified and installed by club sound engineer Muhamad Adam. "Considering the size of the room, and the height of the speaker positions, I picked the Rx 115/75 with its 15in LF woofer rather than the 12in version," explains Adam. He has configured the system with six 115/75 high-output full-range enclosures, wall-mounted. "There are two pairs facing each other across the dancefloor. People tend to dance where the music is at its loudest, so I positioned one pair of speakers in order to move them away from the DJ booth. The other pair addresses the areas around the bar where people tend to congregate. The remaining two Rx115/75s effectively act as in-fills."
Currently the system provides heavy bass to around 35-50Hz, but Muhamad Adam is intending to replace the Rx218S subs with EV Xds subs from the X-Array range to extend the low-end output even further.
(Jim Evans)
