Philadelphia’s newest live music concert venue, SoundGarden Hall is a 2,100-capacity live event space that is bringing electronic, alternative, rock, pop and R&B to the city’s music community.
The design, sale and installation od the venue’s sound system was handled by Ian Hoffer of Aurora Sound & Light Design. Having worked on the Meyer Sound-equipped Rumor nightclub a year earlier, the UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers were an early favourite for SoundGarden Hall: ‘The people involved in SoundGarden Hall were so impressed with the UPJ-1Ps I at Rumor that when we were evaluating speakers for SoundGarden’s delay fills, they said, “Can’t we just use some more of those UPJs?’’
Hoffer selected six Meyer Sound 600-HP subwoofers, the exclusive subwoofer in use for the main hall. Five UPJ-1P loudspeakers are used for delay fill, with two others for the DJ booth monitor. A Meyer Sound UMS-1P subwoofer is installed for the DJ booth.
As SoundGarden Hall’s elaborate lighting design fills the entirety of the concert hall, issues with placement arose: ‘There was no convenient spot to put delay-fill speakers and there’s nowhere to have stands coming up from the floor,’ Hoffer says, ‘At the same time, because the ceiling is set up more like a nightclub, the customer is enveloped in the sound-light experience throughout the whole facility. We used UPJs with Meyer’s MUB-UPJ U-brackets, put two theatrical clamps on them, and mounted them to the light pipes, so the delay speakers actually disappear into the lighting grid. That worked well. And the output for the size is impressive.’
SoundGarden Hall also features an MA Lighting command wing and a Yamaha M7CL-32 digital mixing console.
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