The Society Bar is the new addition to the hip and funky tapas cocktail bars in Cairns’ CBD. Housing 250 patrons, the lighting designed and installed by JVG Sound & Visual’s North QLD branch – was designed to create a mood change from lunch to after work drinks – to dinner and then late night club atmosphere with a DJ.

47 x Visio LED RGBW/W were installed around the room all controlled by a VPower 600 and E:Cue Butler. Visio Warm White Flexi Tape is used underneath the bar areas for a seamless glowing effect, completing the look.

“This is the first time I have used the new LED architectural range - Visio -  in a venue and I found it was ‘Excellent’ and was very impressed with it when comparing it to the normal LED lights we have previously used. With the Society Bar having a low ceiling, the Visio lighting fixtures created a great lighting show to make the whole room change colour for when the DJ starts playing”, says Scott Miller from JVG.

Everyone has been really impressed with the enhancement of the Society Bar, especially the venue’s owner, Myles Minter. Myles said that the lighting in the Venue was just what he was looking for in light output and especially cost. “Having to work with a light budget – the Visio range of LED fixtures was excellent”, says Scott.

“This Visio product for the price is excellent and I will be using this product definitely again in the future. The colours that it produces are just as good as other LED products on the market but certainly more affordable to a wider range of potential applications.

Working with venues and managers that are always

changing the rooms around, the Visio lighting range is the most adaptable product JVG uses at this time for architectural lighting effects”, says Scott.

Scott recommended a Quest audio system for the club as he believed it was the best for the budget allowed.

The dance floor area is serviced by 4 x QM DC10 co-axial speakers, 1 x QA 1004 amplifier 500W per channel, 1 x QA2004 amplifier 850W per channel (Sub amplifier and ceiling speakers) and a QM212S passive 2 x 12” sub bass speaker.

“The Quest speakers have a great price, great sound output and are a quality speaker,” remarked Scott. “The room has a low ceiling and the QM DC10 were ideal as they don’t hang down too far. The sub also has a low profile.

“The client is very happy with the resulting audio quality. A lot of people have commented on the amount of sound that comes out of the Quest speakers and generally people think the audio is awesome.”

The rest of the venue utilises 8 x MC800 8 ohm 100 watt ceiling speakers powered from channel B of QA2004 although the back room has two QTC1080 ceiling speakers.

An Australian Monitor amplifer and a ZRM4 zone routing mixer are used.

Scott also installed three 42″ Vivo televisions, a Nightlife ProDJ system, two CDJ 400 CD players and a DJM 700 mixer.