Located in the old centre of the Netherlands’ city of Goes, Slot Oostende opened to the public recently as a multipurpose venue. With some original parts of the former castle surviving, a mixture of ancient and modern architecture provides an ideal setting for its restaurant, meeting venue and brewery producing the venue’s own beer. The installation of a Yamaha Commercial Installation Solutions (CIS) audio system meaning its spaces can be used for many different purposes.
Slot Oostende officially opened in April 2017, with a planned programme of varied entertainment, meetings, presentations and speech events. To ensure high-quality sound for all, Peter de Graaf of A/V installation specialist Geluid & Beeld NU! sat down with Leo de Klerk of professional audio dealer Bloomline to design a truly multi-purpose audio installation.
They chose a system built around a Dante network, controlled and managed by a Yamaha MTX5 matrix mixer/signal processor and a pair of XMV8280-D multichannel power amplifiers. The advantages of a Dante solution were immediately obvious, as it allows one of the amplifiers to be located 80m from the system rack, on the other side of the building, with no issues.
Throughout the building there are six locations, each with Omniwave loudspeakers and a Yamaha DCP1V4S surface-mounted control panel. At each location the user can select: Background music A, Background music B, two wireless microphones (with an advanced active antenna system that means they can work throughout the building) or a local audio input connection. The system can also be controlled using Yamaha’s ProVisionaire Touch iPad app.
Slot Oostende co-owner Anita Maas is happy with its flexibility and ease of control: ‘The main purpose of the system is for background music, but it can be used for any kind of occasion. Thanks to the local inputs, we can host several different events at the same time,’ she says. ‘We hope the versatility and quality of the system will mean Slot Oostende becomes a real go-to venue for the people of Goes.’
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