Atmosphere is built around the concept of sea side dining, and provides a relaxing ambience for consumers to enjoy the breeze while having a meal over drinks. Operating through out the week, customers can literally enjoy two separate atmospheres at the aptly named Bistro. The early part of the operations is meant for a more relaxed dining atmosphere with light music played in the background. After 10pm, is when the tempo picks up and the venue is transformed into a bar with more energetic music. Weekends see live soccer games as well as major sporting events being projected as well.
Enabling the vision of the owners to be realised from the technical perspective was Creative Elifestyles Pte Ltd. Robert Adrian Tan, Director at Creative Elifestyles, understood the requirements and proposed an effective set-up that met the needs of the Bistro.
With the seaside being a main draw, Atmosphere's space is divided into a large outdoor area and a smaller air-conditioned indoor area. To ensure proper audio coverage within the venue, Robert first specified four units of higher-powered Alphacoustics LT8 Linear column speakers that feature ribbon technology for the outdoor space. Each of the 240watts speakers were placed strategically to offer audio coverage across the area and arepowered with 2 units of QSC GX3 2 channels power amplifier. The indoor space also features 4 x Alphacoustics speakers that are installed onto the ceiling. Due to the smaller space, these are the LT4 Linear column speakers offering 120watts per speaker and are also driven by 2 units of QSC GX3 power amplifiers. A Samson S Zone multi zone stereo audio mixer works in tandem with a Xilica XP4080 speaker management system to complete the audio set-up.
The Bistro Bar also features six displays in and around the venue with a projector and a projection wall being a focus point atthe outdoor space. A Sony CW275 5100 ANSI lumen WXGA LCD projector was installed for the projection. “The owners wanted to project live sports programmes in a larger format and thus decided on going with a projector. The location of the wall on which images are being projected can be viewed from almost any angle. The displays on the other hand are generally used to broadcast free-to-air-channels and promotional materials,” said Robert.
For the visual solutions, Robert installed a Black Magic Design (BMD) 12 x 12 Smart Video Hub Switcher as well as a BMD Component to SDI convertors for the cable boxes. 7 units of DataVideo SDI to HDMI Convertor were also employed for the displays and the projector. He explained,“The BMD Smart Video Hub switcher is excellent as it comes in a compact design and offers advanced 6G-SDI connections and it allows you to route any combination of SD, HD and Ultra HD if need be from within the same router.” A Power Sequencer Controller was put in place as it cuts the workload of the staff turning each & every equipment on & off individually and also maintaining the equipment for the long run.
Chiam Wee Leong, one of the partners at Atmosphere Bistro & Bar, commented, “Creative Elifestyles was recommended to us and Robert was great. He ensured that the speakers not only offered crisp audio but were also able to aesthetically blend in with our design. The slim speakers are not jarring which helps visually. We are happy with Robert's service as he understood our requirements and delivered accordingly.”