Club/Rave with Best Sound System?

[westy303]

My memory doesn't work as well as it once did, but yeah, Bowlers had an awesome system that you actually felt - I was always down the front so I thought it rocked! Also have recollections being in Angels on the dancefloor thinking fook me this is well loud. Then again, I was virtually stood inside one of the big speakers, which may or may not explain that situation!

[blue jammer]

Have mentioned this before on here but..

Herbal Tea Party @ The New Ardri in Hulme had THE best soundsystem ever imo. First remember walking into the place and thinking 'why is everyone in the middle of the club forming a cirlcle when the club is square' ?!

Reason for this was they were trying to get AWAY from the speakers as it was THAT loud
Bar staff had notepads so you could write down your order at the bar as it was too loud to try and speak

Happy days in there..

Others go to The Limit, The Academy & The Soundgarden, Sankeys was good also in the mid 90's. Sound system in the Hac wasn't all that imo, top club but only sounded decent when it was fully rammed.

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[Harri74]

Am i right in thinking the eclipse was (only) 25k? Thats what i heard.. Does anyone know how it worked with promotion nights? ie were they allowed to bring along extra PA?

[Davey]

Bowlers 60k sound system..never heard anything more powerfull than that not sure i'd want to tbh lol

[Brock Landers]

Cream - mid 90s for me. Absolutely spot on at every frequency up and down the range. It punched you in the chest with some force, I tell thee.

[SCR101.5]

I read an excellent article in the last few months by Daniel Wang about sound amplification/ insulation, but I can't find a link online.

[zot]

Originally Posted by Elate

I remember going to a 3rd eye/house of god night at the que club in 95 and the sound was amazing. Then in 99 I went to a flashback night there and fekin hell it was loud, didnt sound too good next to the speakers because of the pain but on the balcony it sounded well nice. Went to the chill out room when mickey finn came on and could hear and feel the bad ass bass comin through the walls from the main room!
Also there was a tiny little after club club we used to go to in stoke called the class club. No huge speaker stacks or anything but the system was so bassy it just pushed you along.
Other clubs that I remember sounding good were maximes, the dance academy and the warehouse in plymouth.

I'll second that, I live in Plymouth and spent alotta time in the warehouse, being an old opera house the acoustics were just nuts, obsession came down one rave with a bangin system, they set up speakers all over the shop, you just couldn't get away from the bangin tunes...quality !

[MightyMing]

Originally Posted by dodgymix

Bowlers was loud but echoed with the back speakers slightly behind the front speakers, you could stand in some spots and it would sound awful machine gun styly

Hardtimes in Huddersfield was great until it got nicked,


mid nineties Cream was great. Remember a night when Seaman played the main room and they must have been playing with the outputs as the bass line was going round the room, speaker to speaker...was very impressed at the time lol

Yeah, Life was bloody awful! Sounding like it was two of the same records playing slightly out of synch if you stood in the wrong place. Mind you, if you stood right in front of one of the tall stacks of speakers it was pretty good!

[T.C]

Originally Posted by Harri74

the Que rocked, especially if you had a decent spot on the main floor.

as a venue, I loved it , and it was one of those great ones where you feel like you're going off exporing all different corridors and bits
and overlooking the dancefloor was cool too


these days, any club with a Funktion 1 system in kicks my ass. Hard.

[Harri74]

Originally Posted by T.C

as a venue, I loved it , and it was one of those great ones where you feel like you're going off exporing all different corridors and bits
and overlooking the dancefloor was cool too


these days, any club with a Funktion 1 system in kicks my ass. Hard.

yeah, was like a rabbit warren at times and about 4 in the morning youd see all manner of people scurrying around the place.. Funktion 1

[adamw]

Originally Posted by Mr Radish

The older Hac sound system (91 was my first visit) was great, But then it changed and was never as bassmungous. I remember walking down Whitworth Street West to the sound of deep bass and rattling door shutters 200 yards away!

It was the coolest sound ever!

The Hacienda was often plagued with sound problems due to it's shape but Peter Hook's "Wall of Sound" as you rightly say, was probably when it was at it's best.

[pleasuredrom2]

golden was gud - my fav was the wall of speakers at mr smiths on a hardcore night - nowt clever, just pile em high n bang it out

[easty]

step back @ the academy

[nupski]

can't name the best cos my head was always some where else, but i can defo name the loudest i ever heard.

andromeda 1 telford ice rink, never been any where else where i couldn't hear anything on the dancefloor, my eardrums were tickiling the insides of my ears, cos they were vibrating so much.

took them 3 days to recover

aaaaaayyyyyy. what was that you said......

[italianjunkie]

Originally Posted by Davey

Bowlers 60k sound system..never heard anything more powerfull than that not sure i'd want to tbh lol

totally agree with ya
blew my ears away