Commercial sound system - thoughts and suggestions welcomed

[kme]

Scenario:

A rugby club wants sound throughout their club (three bars). Easy enough?

They may want sound / mic broadcast throughout, or just one room. Still not a problem, is it?

They want to be able to have karaoke, etc in either of two of the bars. Now its getting interesting.

They could want the broadcast mic to be upstairs in the large bar, or downstairs - a good radio mic would work, but not give them any control over level, IF they`re not in the bar where the amp is.

I suppose I could put XLR connectors on the wall in each of the two bars, and provide a portable unit with player, mixer and poweramp. But I`m going to have to fit some form of zone selection switching with each area - and they`d have to reconfigure to go from karaoke one room to mic broadcast all rooms!

Anyone think of any proprietary (or other) workarounds?

Ta.

KME

 

[brummydave]

I used to install stuff like this whereby there were mic/DJ/jukebox etc sources in different rooms of a venue, and each room had a controller to control which source was playing, and the volume. It was also possible to have announcement mics with priority over all zones. They were all passive systems, so there were central amp & control gear racks with speaker and line cables going to relevant locations. Great fun!

BSS used to do controllers like the 'Jellyfish' that worked with their Soundweb and made it fairly straight forward to have a number of sources and a number of output zones and select which you wanted where easily, and have local volume control. Just checked their website and it's discontinued now, but their current range of stuff is at BSS Audio Soundweb London. Whether it's what you need I'm not sure.

Cloud electronics also used to do multi zone/source stuff. And I've used a lot of TOA as well. All great gear!

These are the kind of companies who'll come up with a solution if you tell them the scenario above. Rather than you scratching your head anyway!

Finally though, if it fits with the zoning I'd recommend active gear - that way you don't need to worry where the amps are! And some new stuff is sooo light, and great sounding too. Keeps it simples.

HTH

Dave.

 

[kme]

Thanks Dave. The client has temporarily shelved the idea; but I`m sure it`ll re-emerge when I least want it to!