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The Hard Rock Café (HRC) is one of the American entertainment industry’s most successful exports. The concept of combining live performances by top bands, good food, a pleasant atmosphere and outstanding equipment has proven a recipe for global success, and the first Hard Rock Café in Poland—in Warsaw's Zlote Tarasy (Gold Terraces)—looks set to extend the tradition.

The 500-seat venue opened its doors to the public for the first time on the March 10th, complete with a concert becoming of the prestigious event: under the code name "Super Group,” the elite of Poland's rock musicians banded together to celebrate the occasion in style and give the Hard Rock Café's freshly installed sound system a baptism of fire into the bargain!

Fabian Ukleja of Electro-Voice's Polish partner Audio Plus was responsible for the installation: "Hard Rock Cafés are world famous for their outstanding club sound,” said Ukleja, “—there’s a reason they’re constantly picking up awards. That said, the bar was set very high for us."

But as the first night show—along with performances by acts like Fishbone and the Monday Rebels in the following months—have proved, Audio Plus cleared it with no difficulty, and the latest member of the HRC family has no reason—other than youth—to be in awe of its siblings: "We received the highest praise," says Ukleja, "not only from the club's management but also from the musicians. The managers are delighted with the system’s reliability, sonic performance and general ease-of-use. And they can't get over the fact that the whole thing can be controlled from one laptop!" The typical reaction amongst visiting musicians is a euphoric "This is amazing!"

The installation was relatively complex: to obtain a perfectly balanced sonic image it was necessary to tailor the design very carefully to the topography of the location by defining a total of seven separate sound reinforcement zones. Each of these, of course, has also to be controlled separately, which is why the Audio Plus team installed a NetMax N8000 (as the main processor) and the Iris-Net software platform on the club laptop for all the devices and systems capable of being remote controlled.

Klark Teknik Square One graphic equalizers and dynamic processors and a Midas Venice console—not to mention a multitude of high-quality microphones from Electro-Voice—put the icing on the cake.

Bosch Communications Systems
Telex Communications, Inc.
12000 Portland Ave. South
Burnsville, MN 55337
Phone: 952-736-3935
Fax: 952-736-4582
guy.low@us.telex.com

Bosch Communications Systems
Telex Communications, Inc.
12000 Portland Ave. South
Burnsville, MN 55337
Phone: 952-736-3901
Fax: 952-736-4582

HARD ROCK CAFÉ OPENS IN WARSAW WITH ELECTRO-VOICE