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BASS Installs New AQ’s into Leading Bristol Venues
Installer Mike Brice from Bristol Architectural Sound Services (BASS) has favoured Martin Audio enclosures as his lead loudspeaker brand since setting up the company, and now has many prime sites in the city — with all Martin loudspeakers supplied by Stroud-based dealers, CAV.
The latest of a series of high-profile Martin fit-outs is the new Brownstone — situated off the city’s Baldwin Street drinking circuit — and the chic Bar Pam Pam’s (formerly Jasper’s) on the Clifton Triangle.
Developed by leaseholder Rich Donaldson, Brownstone has replaced the former student haunt the Steamrock, and operates as a coffee house by day and a sophisticated dance venue on the weekend nights (featuring a Hed Kandi residency on Thursday nights).
With product support from Howard Williams at CAV, Mike Brice cleverly designed the venue to enable a pair of the new Martin Audio AQ12’s to replace the temporary front-facing Wavefront W2’s. Elsewhere, a pair of low-profile WTUB’s, designed for front fill, handle the vocal range, a Blackline S218, recessed into the concrete DJ booth, looks after the low frequencies and a series of tiny 5in ICT-principle EM15’s cover the peripheral areas in the hard-surfaced rectangular room — stripped back to its original brickwork as part of an interior design makeover by Interaction.
Also owned by A3 Leisure Bar Pam Pam — designed by Alison Weaver to include a champagne bar and private snug in the basement — follows a similar Martin Audio formula, with a further pair of AQ12’s added to the configuration. Again Mike Brice has built the rest of his design around a pair of WTUB’s for front fill in the main bar, this time using a combination of EM26’s and EM15’s to provide coverage throughout the
multi-zone venue, which includes the stairwell and main bars/dancefloor. A pair of twin 10in EM150 ultra-compact subs provide the LF rumble, and the playback is routed and EQ’d by an Allen & Heath DR128.
“We can find every loudspeaker we need in the Martin Audio catalogue,” says Mike. “Their systems are sufficiently versatile for transparent reproduction of speech, background music and full-on dance music. We are particularly excited by the arrival of the new AQ series and had been looking forward to getting them into these two flagship venues.”
Now shipping, the AQ series has been styled to be architecturally unobtrusive and at the same time meet the evolving needs of high performance sound contracting across the gamut of professional
applications.
Six full-range enclosures are available — including the (12in+1in) AQ12 — complemented by four dedicated, high power sub-bass enclosures. A high performance AQX controller has been specially designed to manage AQ Series loudspeakers.
In picture: Brownstone (looking out from the DJ booth) and the plush interior at Bar Pam Pam.
7th January 2005
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