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CP Sound at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern
CP Sound has just finished installing a kicking new sound system into top London gay destination – The Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
Well known for being one of the best disco nights out on the town, the Vauxhall’s original JBL sound system – also designed, engineered and installed by CP – was still in good condition. However, to keep pace with the music, the beats and the technology of the times – as well as their desire to provide clientele with the very highest in audio quality – the Vauxhall’s owners decided it was time for a bigger and better sound upgrade.
It was vital that the venue had a very robust and reliable system to cope with the heavy usage and high SPLs demanded by its lively and discerning audiences. Once again, CP Sound’s Colin Pattenden again went for JBL.
The new top cabinets are JBL AM 6215s from the new AE installation series – providing plenty of power and kick, each powered by 750 Watts of amplification. Bass speaker are the JBL dual 18 inch ASB 6128s, with a meaty 2000 Watts going into each bottom end bin. CP also installed a new Allen & Heath Xone 464 combined DJ and PA mixer, enabling the venue to cater for live events as well as its regular DJ nights, and they also supplied & fitted (specified) a new Denon DCD4000 twin CD player.
Processing and system management control is all done via a dbx Drive Rack. This was the most powerful and feature packed system available for the price explains Pattenden. It was also a first for CP - the Drive Rack is the first digital device specified into one of their many installations.
“I was absolutely confident it was the appropriate piece of kit for the job,” states Pattenden. “dbx have done an massive amount of R ‘n’ D on both analogue and digital sound devices. They know exactly what they want their kit to achieve, it’s user-friendly and very good,” he confirms.
The Drive Rack is linked to a set of new RSE amplifiers, 2 cc1500 delivering 1600w into 4 ohms one for each pair of top cabs & two cc2000 delivering 2000w into 4 ohms one for each bass bin. The PFX 500 amp is bridged into the new DJ monitor – a JBL AM4215.
The new amplifier and processing rack is located in the building’s basement, which also happens to be very close in physical proximity to the bass bins. With a short cable run, the output impedance of the amplifiers is used to produce a dampening effect on the bass cones, acoustically tightening the bass end, ensuring full and efficient emphasis of its heaviness. CP Sound fully tuned and optimised the system once the all elements of the installation were complete.
All JBL and dbx equipment was supplied to CP Sound by Harman Pro UK.
Access proved the most challenging aspect of the installation, with the venue falling just 100 metres inside the central London congestion charge zone. Consequently, some long pushes between delivery truck and back door helped ensure CP Sound also embraced the government’s new exercise initiatives!
27th April 2004
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