Formerly owned by Springwood Leisure (and later Nexum) the newly-named Club Couture can trace its roots back to the nascent era of disco as Cinderellas Rockerfellas, and also Northern Soul haunt, Top of the World. Along the way it has also been a Coliseum and Fatty Arbuckles — further names redolent of the golden age of disco — until it finally closed its doors in October 2008.
Couture Leisure’s general manager, Scott Miles was determined to reintroduce classic club sound and lighting (and a twin-scene concept). Craving a sound that resembled the Ministry of Sound, he couldn’t believe his luck when it was the legendary London venue’s former head of technology Dave Bradshaw — now part of Sound Technology’s project support team — who advised on a matched system, based on JBL components, that would deliver the dance sound he was looking for in the main ‘Couture’ room.
Four JBL AM6340/95s are flown over each corner of the dancefloor, with four ASB6128’s, coupled in pairs, in front of the DJ podium at floor level. Further JBL SRX712M’s and an SRX718S sub were provided for high-class DJ reference sound, and at the far end a pair of JBL AC2212/95s are recessed into the newly-extended stage apron.
Finally 12 JBL Control 25’s provide infill around the main club periphery and in the Games Arcade.
Five XTi 6000, two XTi 2000 a, five XTi 1000 and two XLS-802s drive the system throughout the club with a BSS Soundweb London system taking care of the routing and processing.
Full story:
http://www.soundtech.co.uk/harman-international/news/jbl-crown-bss-club-couture
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