Morgan Wallen's This Bar chooses RCF for spectacular sound

The teams of RCF have become the axis of the sound system of this restaurant and leisure club. This solution has been able to optimize audio quality within a highly reflective environment without changing the appearance of the building.

He TC Restaurant Group manages several artist-themed establishments in Nashville and to equip the premises This Bar and Tennessee Kitche with an optimal sound system he contacted directly RCF. Nashville-based integrator JAG Warner Productions has handled the design.

The country-pop star Morgan Wallen He is the last artist to have lent his name, and the title of a song, to a leisure venue, el This Bar and Tennessee Kitchen, which is located in the Lower Broadway district of Nashville.

A six-story, four-story restaurant and entertainment center that has been built in collaboration with TC Restaurant Group, just a few steps from Ryman Auditorium. It has a surface area of approximately 9.144 square meters and includes three live music stages, six bars and an open-air roof terrace.

When sourcing and installing the audio system, the biggest challenge was optimizing sound quality within a highly reflective environment without changing the look and feel of the building.. JAG Warner had just over two months to assemble the team and complete the installation.

This Bar's first-floor display system features two suspended RCF HDL 28-A active linear layout modules. Three SUB 9006-AS dual active subwoofers 18 inches are mounted below the stage in a side arrangement. TT 515-A active two-way speakers from RCF's flagship TT+ Audio line provide front and underfloor fill.

The management of this bar “wants the music to hit you with the same force in the back of the room as when you enter”, Warner explains.. “They gave us an error tolerance for the front-to-back level of plus or minus 1 dB in almost 20 metros, and we did it. “The RCF system offers a full spectrum and very musical solution.”.

Veteran live sound specialist Michael Lawrence “purposely voiced” the system to achieve transparency on behalf of RCF. “You're not going to get a better lineup than Michael did in that building.”, Warner enthuses. “It takes a hundredth of a millisecond to perfect it.”. If you put a good mix, "You're going to get a good mix.". Due to its proximity to the Ryman auditorium, duck, “the system needed to be very controlled. "You can't even know that that system is on outside the building.".

Uniform volume

The concept for This Bar's second floor restaurant was to achieve uniform volume coverage of high-quality background music at all times, with RCF WMR 60-T two-way wall mount speakers.

As with all upper floors of This Bar, if the focus shifts from a theater stage to a live performance, Systems can change through Q-SYS to a fully delayed stage approach with the main sound in the restaurant from the RCF Compact M cabinets 12 y los subwoofers S 12.

This Bar's third-floor nightclub has a much larger mezzanine, hence the smaller arrangement.

Four HDL 28-A per side cover a space of 7,7 meters deep in what Warner calls “a super high impact system”. Besides, says there is 13 515-A units between the under-balcony and over-balcony fills around that room to maintain the same sound level error tolerance as on the first floor.

TT 25-A II cabinets complete the system as the stage fills, with massive bass boost from four dual TT+ Audio GTS subwoofers 29 of 19 inches. “That's the fun part”, Warner adds.. “They have live bands during the day, then, at night, DJs come on stage and turn the stage into a dance platform”.

“The subwoofers cover the entire room”, explains. “Two on the ground cover most of the tombs for the attendees and the stage. The two in the air fill the entire room. You will get the same impact of tombs anywhere in the room”. The subwoofers are powered by a four-channel XPS 16KD DSP amplifier and 16.000 W. “That power”, adds Warner, “getting out of a two rack unit device with everything else you can do with it (Native Dante, DSP , GPIO ports), It's a fantastic amplifier.".