DAS Audio brings audio artistry to Club Dbl O
Published: ASIA
SINGAPORE: DAS Audio has recently worked alongside a new club in Singapore aimed at bring audio and artistry together in a single venue.
Club Dbl O recently reopened its doors in Singapore’s Unity Street on Robertson Walk, with a popular main attraction of DJs playing a mixture of music that’s considered to be amongst the best on the island. Having worked together previously for the venue’s Pool Room bar, the Emerald Hill Group approached DAS Audio with a new concept of ‘Audio and Street Art’, in order to promote an art platform for all local artists. Eleven Singaporean artists including graphic designers, street artists, a graffiti writer, illustrators and a renowned local tattoo artist were invited to pour their artistic interpretations onto the blank canvas interior of the club with impressive results.
DAS Audio Asia was then invited to provide its own audio artistry within Dbl O. ‘The club was designed as a multi-purpose venue, so we needed the ability to easily de-rig and move a sound system around should it arise,’ Emerald Hill group director, Arden Peddell explained. ‘The issue of noise pollution was also present, due to the other establishments in the area, which includes a hotel. As such, we appointed DAS Audio to design a venue that would provide pristine audio quality without disturbing the other businesses around the premises.’
Having conducted EASE 4.2 simulations, DAS suggested that a Variant Installation Array be adopted as the main PA system, and now with hanging points installed throughout Dbl O, the Variant arrays can be speedily reconfigured by the club’s technical crew. A total of nine powered Variant 112A arrays were flown in three clusters, while low frequency reproduction is handled by a pair of two-unit clusters of Variant 18A subs. A DAS DSP-2060 signal processor ties the install together.
‘We were able to achieve very even coverage with a decreasing SPL from the centre of the venue towards the spots we wanted to be quieter,’ explained DAS audio technical support engineer Ron Koh. ‘Having the speakers emit audio from one designated spot also decreases the chances of cancellations, improving the sound in general.’