Sanford's old rooms want a different kind of loud

Historic downtown Sanford is brick, timber and low ceiling height. Sound gets loud fast in rooms like that, and it gets muddy just as fast. The correct response is a smaller, better-placed system, not a bigger one.

Small rig, tight coverage

Low ceilings put the audience inside the speaker's vertical pattern rather than in front of it, so cabinets go lower and closer, aimed across the floor. The result is a floor that feels physical at a volume where the bar can still take an order.

An old room does not need to be overpowered. It needs to be aimed.

Lighting a room that already has character

• Warm uplighting on brick, never cool — cool light makes old masonry look grey and dead
• Dance floor lighting trained down on the floor so the ceiling stays where it belongs
• Nothing strobing in a low room; it reads as a club, and this is not a club
• One colour, chosen with the couple, held all night

The reason to hire someone who has worked older rooms is not equipment. It is restraint, applied in the right places.

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