Special Report STUDIO 54 Volume 5a

Yawza Yawza Yawza... DISCO NIGHTS!!

Studio 54 will forever reign as the large room nightclub & disco duty hottest, most elite and outrageous, imposed. You simply had to design one-of-a-kind “mother of all night- & build your own speaker boxes & clubs”. It was real-life theatre at it’s load them with the best drivers you best, with a fascinating cast of char- could buy”. The Starr Group had acters being selected for each night’s seen many meltdowns of lesser gear grand cabaret performance party from in competitors systems. the multitudes clamoring to get past the famed velvet ropes. In 1986 Stu- Designing & installing an earth 1986: Peter J. Starr beside 1 of 6 mammoth Col- osseum speaker locations at Studio 54. One of dio was in need of a new, more ad- shaking sound system for a club that two dance floor amp rack location is shown. vanced sound system. After many was originally a Broadway theater major nightclub installation successes with dimensions greater than 325’ horns pumping out over 24,000 watts including club Shout! (The world’s X 250’ was a complex task. “For- of bass pressure onto the dance floor. largest 60’s & tunately our experience with major Six high-output, four-way mid-high 70’s night- boxes deliver sizzling mids & highs. club), the Over 38 Starr Enter- Crown tainment amplifiers Group was power the called upon entire sys- to design & tem. Six install a state- 72” equip- of-the-art ment sound system racks are housed in two dance floor for the huge locations behind large plexiglass doors, disco, whose dance floor routinely ac- large rooms & old theaters turned allowing dancers to view the flashing commodated more than 2000 revel- night club was extensive by the time lights & meters of the amplifiers & pro- lers. the Studio project came our way” cessing gear. Starr: “We are honored said Mr. Starr. “We knew exactly to have been included in such a his- A lot had changed since the club’s what worked & what did not. There toric project”. original sound system was installed is no substitute for experience, & in 1977. The Starr Entertainment with a project of this magnitude, fi- group featured their own custom line nancial commitment & visibility, of high-output speakers, tested & per- there simply could not be any mis- fected in their large room night club takes.” installations. According to president Peter J. Starr “None of the speaker The Starr Group featured the Col- manufacturers at that time were osseum Series, their newest line of building speakers that would with- custom, high output speakers. 24 800 32 - SOUND stand the tremendous demands that SEG Colosseum 18-1000X bass StarrEntertainmentGroup.com