BSS Audio Soundweb London system installed in Kosta Boda Hotel in Sweden

The Soundweb London system needed to distribute four sources of background music or sound effects into 21 zones throughout the building, cater for 10 conference rooms with local audio inputs and microphones, and be able to mute everything on command from a fire/evacuation system.

The signal distribution hub has been constructed around three technical rooms, including the master control room.  A Soundweb London BLU-160 and multiple BLU-120 devices, with configurable I/O, are set in the main room, with a single BLU-120 device plus BLU-BOB in each of the other two. These are connected by the new BSS Audio digital audio bus, offering 256 channels of low-latency, fault-tolerant audio on a single Cat6 Ethernet cable.

On the ground floor, the Soundweb architecture has also been programmed with a separate gain structure for when the Glass Bar is used as an overspill area for the adjacent Conference Room. This is controlled from the local BLU-10 programmable touch screen remote – while the remaining two BLU-10 controllers reside at the dedicated ground floor and first floor Reception desks, and offer central control. Meanwhile, the seven BLU-3 remotes control local sources in the conference rooms and the pool area.

The system feeds out to multiples of JBL Control Contractor loudspeakers – from Control 29 loudspeakers in the Conference Room and the Glass Bar annex, where a live stage will be added, down to Control 26CT loudspeakers in the pool and bar areas (supplemented by Control 19CST 8in ceiling subs) and Control 24CT Micros in the corridors and peripheral areas.