DAS Audio chosen for Dr Oscar club in Ningbo

The Dr Oscar nightclub chain has installed a DAS Audio system into its latest club in the Beilun District of Ningbo City, which has a population of 900,000. The Dr Oscar brand has opened more than a dozen clubs across the country over the past three years, featuring its trademark theatre-style concept, cutting-edge sound and light systems and advanced stage design.

Dr Oscar invited DAS Audio’s technical director in Asia, German Rodriguez, to design a sound system for the new venue, a rectangular space 13m high with no supporting columns in the central area. “The hall is prone to bad acoustical problems,” said Rodriguez who, together with the Spanish brand’s dealer for the entertainment market, Guangzhou Dasi Audio Equipment, provided a set of application solutions based on the site.

The main system for the central area has deployed 12 DAS Artec-320 line array speakers with four Artec-315.96 point sound source speakers for delay and a total of 14 Vantec-218 subwoofers taking care of low frequencies. Two Artec-315.96 speakers have been provided onstage for monitoring, while monitoring for the DJ booth is via DAS Action-M512 speakers. All speakers are driven by DAS DI100 4-channel digital amplifiers and PA Series amps.

“A DAS solution is very suited to the reproduction of live music in clubs; it is an efficient system,” said Zhou Zechu of Dasi Audio. “Although I don't need to use a hugely powerful amplifier to drive it, its SPL output is much higher than that of other speaker systems I have used. In addition, I only need to use the default parameters in the digital amplifier, and rarely need EQ or compressors. Just by spending a little time to adjust and correct the speaker position and sound coverage, and it’s done. I keep the SPL below 120dB as I don’t want to harm the listening experience of the performers and audience. After all, we want them to remain in the club for long periods of time.”