Community Keeps Waterfront Sound in the Fun Zone
 For more than a decade, the Chesapeake Inn Restaurant and Marina in Chesapeake City, Maryland, has been a favorite spot for celebrating weddings, graduations and other memorable events. Its breathtaking, windswept views of the Bay are a backdrop for good food, good friends and good times. The multi-room venue includes an outdoor deck and Tiki Bar, both of which are quite popular during warmer months. For live entertainment they only had smaller two and three piece combos playing outside, while the larger and louder bands played indoors, with the music piped outside via the sound system. But the Inn's waterfront location presented an ongoing challenge to their ability to be good neighbors, with complaints from homes in the area and a number of homes just across the narrow channel. The reflections off the water would actually make the sound seem even louder, so they were forced to keep the volume down on the deck to a point where the music just wasn't enjoyable.
The solution included a total of 14 WET W2-2W8 two-way loudspeakers and four WET W2-112 Subs for the outdoor areas, strategically aimed to contain the sound and direct it inward. While the weather resistance of the WET Series was a major consideration, the sound does not suffer at the least as they remain very musical, with a lot of punch and dynamic range. With the WET system in place the venue was able to reduce the outdoor volume by 8 dB and improve the clarity at the same time. Inside the restaurant, a series of six Community iBOX i2W8 two-way systems create a party environment for DJ and live music performances. The Inn’s sound engineer reports that the coverage is great and the music sounds good anywhere on the property. Now you can actually hear the difference between the good bands and the bad ones.
"Rock" Bar at Beijing’s Hotel Kunlun
The "Rock" bar at Beijing’s Hotel Kunlun has recently benefitted from a new Community FOH sound system. To ensure the loudspeakers merged into the bars unique aesthetics, the system chosen used two ENTASYS three-way, full-range column line-array loudspeakers and two ENTASYS low frequency column loudspeakers, mounted unobtrusively on either side of the stage. The ENTASYS were supplemented by four VERIS 212S compact subwoofers for powerful low frequency extension and impact. Musicians and DJs were said to be “astonished” by the quality of the sound system, and were particularly impressed with the compact system’s power.
Community WET “spotted” in Orlando, Florida
While waiting for a taxi at the Hilton Orlando during this year’s InfoComm Show, Derek West of Carlton-Lee Communications observed music playing that was “very high quality - well balanced with good articulation”. Looking up he saw the system used Community WET 218 loudspeakers distributed along the front of the building. “The system designer did a nice job”, he commented, “As well as looking aesthetically good, I walked along the length of the front and the coverage was excellent. The loudspeakers may be under cover but with the temperature and humidity in Orlando this summer their all-weather credentials were being well tested”.
Highlights from InfoComm 2011!
(1) Business as usual on the show floor with President Bruce Howze sharing insights on Community’s wide range of new products (2) Posing for the camera, (left to right) Pat and Brenda Brown, SynAudCon; John Wiggins, VP, Yu Xian and Hadi Sumoro, Applications Engineering Group, Community (Visit www.synaudcon.com for a look at SynAudCon’s new web-based audio training and a schedule of upcoming in-person training seminars) (3) Community’s demo room was SRO... Standing Room Only! (4) InfoComm’s Manufacturers’ Training Session “Designing Outdoor Sound Systems” presented by John Loufik, Community’s Senior Technical Applications Engineer (5) Mother Nature showing us how weather works down in Florida (6) “rAVe now” visits with Chris Foreman, Community’s COO for a brief one-on-one overview of our new Distributed Design Series Ceiling Loudspeakers, click HERE to watch the video
 
 
 
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