Las Vegas (May 9, 2012)—While neither the BBQ nor the birds on the menu are free, the Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer restaurant at Las Vegas’s Excalibur Hotel & Casino has proven popular. Keeping the energy going there is constant music heard via Electro-Voice loudspeakers and processors.
Las Vegas sound, lighting, and video design integrator FBP Systems Inc. FBP created the system. “This is a multi-purpose room that hosts live bands, DJs and karaoke,” says Matthew Paupst, senior design engineer at FBP. “We needed a system that would be able to cover anything that might potentially be up on stage.”
“From the main PA to the on-stage monitors to the smaller-format boxes used for delay, EV had products to fit our needs. So, with the help of Quantum Sales and Technology in Anaheim, we were able to provide the quality and price point required to make this job a huge success.”
While the room has a polished concrete floor, Paupst says that reflections were a “non-issue” due to the full barn-board wooden interior. “The architect also used acoustic paneling that was inserted into and painted to match the barn board for added treatments. This meant that we could go big with the PA without having to worry about a large amount of reflection.”
The PA system is built around four Electro-Voice Xi-1153A/64F 15-inch three-way full-range loudspeakers, with four Xsub dual 18-inch subwoofers handling the low end. “We used the 1153s as the main PA, two left and two right,” Paupst says. “They are similar in characteristics to the single 15-inch top boxes that provide the right response for DJ playback systems, but they still have the warm sound of a traditional EV box for the live events.”
The main PA is supplemented with a distributed system of 20 Electro-Voice ZX1i-100 composite indoor/outdoor eight-inch two-way loudspeakers. “We use them for the main PA delay in the outcoves of the venue,” Paupst says. “We also use them for the patio system, which provides sound reinforcement for hotel guests that might be going by, to attract them to the event going on inside. And there are an additional six in the American Burger Works quick service burger restaurant located adjacent to the venue.”
Additional components of the PA system include six TX1122FM 12-inch two-way full-range loudspeakers used as stage monitors and two ELX112P 12-inch two-way full-range loudspeakers used as DJ monitors. The system is processed and controlled by an Electro-Voice Dx46 IRIS-Net sound system processor. “The Dx46 is a standalone DSP that allows us to take advantage of the FIR filters provided by Electro-Voice to obtain peak performance and protection for the Xi-1153As,” Paupst says. “It’s very easy to control, and the provided FIR-Drive lets you tune the room opposed to just tuning the speaker.î
Summing up the Electro-Voice system, Paupst says “I’ll never forget the first time that I fired up the system with the owners standing there, and the facial expressions they each had. You can tell that the system sounds good when the customer starts requesting songs just to hear them the way they’re supposed to sound.” Paupst didn’t say whether they called out a request for “Freebird.”
FBP Systems
www.fbpsystems.com
Quantum Sales and Technology
www.quantumst.com
Electro-Voice
www.electrovoice.com
