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Barfly Birmingham Opens with a Noise Control Audio PA System
Noise Control Audio (NCA) has consolidated its position as preferred supplier to the Barfly Group by installing a complete sound system at the Group’s newest live music venue in Birmingham.
Officially opened on 15th September, 2005, Barfly Birmingham incorporates two rooms, both of which have been equipped with Noise Control’s proprietary speakers. The company was also responsible for adjusting the venue’s acoustics to improve overall sound quality and for specifying and supplying all other audio equipment used throughout the club.
Steve Stavrinides, director of sales for Noise Control, says: “For this particular venue we installed our new NFA concert system, which has gone through several revamps over the past few years and has now had its final jacket fitted. Barfly Birmingham is the first club to have the new NFA Series installed as a permanent installation.”
The PA system in the main room includes four VSB 218 subs, four RGW 112 bass enclosures and four TMT600 mid/hi enclosures and one DF215 for a drum fill, plus two VSB 215’s and three BS 112’s are awaiting manufacture for the back room. FFA amplifiers have been used for the bass and subs in the main room for maximum bass extension and clarity.
NCA, headed by Steve Stavrinides, Reay Grant and Tim Giddings, has been designing and building speaker systems for installations and touring bands since 1997. As well as the proven touring system (the NFA Series), the company also offers a larger range of installation and touring products, which are soon to be announced.
The company’s relationship with The Barfly Group dates back to the mid 1990s when Reay Grant, now NCA’s head of R&D, worked there as a sound engineer. In recent years NCA has been advising Barfly on how to improve the quality of the sound in its London venue (The Monarch) and has also installed its speakers at Barfly Liverpool, to great critical acclaim.
Jeremy Ledlin, managing director of the Barfly Group, says: “We have worked with the Noise Control team since the days when only one Barfly PA system existed – and that was in the back room of a Camden pub. We now have six venues operating in the UK - in London, Cardiff, Liverpool, Glasgow, York and Birmingham – plus Ibiza rocks @ Manumission in Ibiza. In total we have 12 PA systems with most of them running seven days a week.
“NCA was chosen as our preferred supplied because it is an organisation with the experience to provide the best 24/7 advice, equipment, servicing and maintenance capability, yet it is also adaptable enough to cater to unique audio requirements. We’re expecting 500,000 patrons through the doors of our six venues this year, and we’ll be promoting 2,700 events and 6,500 bands, so we need to be working with the best quality and most reliable sound equipment supported by the most reliable back-up. We also need sound equipment that caters for a range of musical genres from rock, pop, acoustic, dance, hip hop, reggae and urban. For our needs, NCA has always delivered.”
Barfly’s long involvement with NCA made the company an obvious choice for the new Birmingham venue. However, it took some time for the project to come to fruition, mainly because the first venue Barfly chose, and NCA quoted on, fell though for a variety of reasons.
Steve Stavrinides says: “While Barfly was sourcing a new venue, we continued to work with the Group to improve the sound in its other venues. We were delighted that, when the Birmingham project came up again, Barfly chose our speaker system for the new club.”
NCA products, along with the equipment it recommends from other manufacturers, are designed to perform flawlessly, even in the most demanding live environments where variables such as temperature, artist and audience demands can be extreme.
“Barfly needs workhorse equipment that creates consistent quality sound and NCA strives to deliver this for us in all situations,” Jeremy Ledlin adds. “I’m particularly delighted to have the new NFA system installed in our Birmingham venue. The response from audiences and touring engineers to date has been nothing short of brilliant and we look forward to working with NCA equipment in our new venues in the future.”
17th October 2005
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