Chinawhite co-founders, Fred Moss and Marc Merran, have joined forces with Samy Sass of Monaco's Sass Café fame, to launch London's most significant and exquisite nightlife venue, MO*VIDA. Built on the site of the former Break for the Border Tex-Mex restaurant - in the vaults of the famous London Palladium Theatre, this luxurious £2m conversion of the 400-capacity venue is poised to reinvigorate London's elite nightlife. For sound reinforcement, Fred Moss has again returned to the high-fidelity of ATC's studio reference loudspeakers, which he had earlier specified for his award-winning venues, Chinawhite and Aura. These have been worked into the raw brick arches of an interior scheme conceived by French designer, Samy Chams of Prospect Design, whose portfolio includes the VIP Room in St. Tropez and Baoli in Cannes. As well as restoring the basement venue's original features, Chams has created a timeless and elegant atmosphere designed to create a South of France atmosphere. Installed by Nick Whittaker, of Whittaker Electronics, no fewer than 17 of ATC's PA65 active three-way enclosures have been flown in the main room, with 20 single 15-inch active subs built into the furniture - a formula which has already found considerable success at Chinawhite. In the VIP/Champagne Room at the rear, with its cozy alcove beds, an additional three PA65s are complemented by a pair of active single 12-inch custom horn-loaded subs (which are concealed under these cubicles). The ATC active approach favors a different principle to conventional PA. The mid-highs incorporate a three-channel Class A/B amplifier (producing 200W bass, 100W mid, 50W HF), with active momentary gain on all channels. Drivers consist of a 15-inch SL bass, three-inch soft-dome mid and a one-inch fabric dome tweeter, producing a maximum SPL of 116dB with a dispersion pattern of ±80 degree horizontal (coherent) and ±10 degree vertical. States Fred Moss, "We have now standardized on ATC. We had a hybrid system installed at Chinawhite, which didn't sound very good, and we had to have an engineer in nearly every week. "I needed something more reliable. From the days when I ran a record label, a couple of studios in which I would do my mastering ran ATC reference monitors. I was impressed with them. So initially I got the idea of putting a special system based on ATCs into AURA, although at MO*VIDA we have reverted to the system used at Chinawhite and where possible built the subs into the fittings. MO*VIDA's capacity includes a 75 person lounge, plus a 50 capacity VIP room. The restaurant seats up to 70 guests who can dine in European style and enjoy a pre-club culinary experience of Italian, French or English cuisine. |
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