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JBL Chosen for Aruba Installations
Harman Pro UK has supplied Derby-based sales and installation specialists Pro Technical with a wide range of JBL speakers for various Aruba late-night bar installations around the country.
One of the most recent is in Hanley, Stroke-On-Trent, which features a sound design utilising three different types of JBL Control Contractor enclosure. Pro Technical’s Richard Anderson enthuses: “One of the beauties of JBL is the fact they have a speaker for every application and location.”
The Aruba roll out for The Dukedom Group now contains 32 venues around the UK, each one of them different and individually designed.
The Stoke site is a single large room with a central bar, designed by Mason Wood Architects – who also do all the Revolution Vodka Bars. Each site’s audio design and installation is also unique and specific to that venue. At Stoke, the client wanted both a variable loudness foreground music system, and a more kicking DJ-led dancefloor area that’s operational five nights a week.
Aruba Stoke is divided into three sound zones: the dancefloor/DJ zone – the loudest area – uses JBL Control 30 speakers to kick the sound around; the bar area is designed to have a comfortable conversation whilst also getting into the groove, and this features JBL Control 29Avs; and the reception and chill-out area is the quietest zone in the building, and here Anderson specified the neat and compact JBL Control 25s to deliver the sound.
The venue is zoned using an Allen & Heath processor that also has a remote, switchable between sources, which includes settings for background music, TV or DJ. The challenge was minimising the reverb in each area, all of which feature plenty of hard surfaces and finishes. Pro Technical worked closely with Mason Wood on this aspect of the design to try and minimise reflections in the sound.
Anderson uses JBL for many reasons, including the fact that he gets great service from Harman Pro UK, and that the hardware is easy to install. The JBL Control series come complete with their own inbuilt InvisiBall mounting hardware, so the only tools needed to install them are a drill and a screwdriver.
“JBL enclosures are also aesthetically pleasing and designers like them, they’re very reliable and sound great,” Anderson sums up, adding that the rotatable horn in the Control 29AV is very helpful for horizontal mounting and space-saving situations.
Pro technical also used JBL recently in the downstairs bar area of the Redcar Aruba, which features eight Control 29 AVs, two MS 125 subs and two Control 25s.
30th July 2004
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