No corners were cut as DJW Projects fitted the entire venue with an array of EAW speakers ranging from DC5 & DC6 Avalon boxes for the dance floor, through to JFX88 as room fill & CIS400 ceiling speakers for the balcony. Skyy Bar was fitted with speaker cabinets from the MK range & all processing & zoning was digitally performed with Symnet. Hugo’s has been fitted with a world class audio system worthy of any chic club on the globe.

Hosting an array of entertainment & events DJW Projects regularly provide production & creative services for the Pete Evans Corporate Cooking Classes, Corporate Cocktail Classes, Jazz Band Nights, Monthly Girly Nights & any other themed or special event that require additional productions services.

Soho is an art deco bar/club in Potts Point which underwent a major transformation in 2009. The venue owners brought in DJW Projects on the ground floor of the refurbishment harnessing our expertise from the first stages of planning and development right through to the final install and on-going service. Working alongside the the designer and architects DJW Projects were able to tailor a competely venue specific audiovisual installation for the client. The results as you can see below were stunning. This project shows the full extent of what can be achieved consulting with DJW from the early stages of your project.

Perched upon a pier that juts into Sydney Harbour, Hugo’s Manly is a superb destination. However, outside the beautiful Spring & Summer weather the owners decided that some really big heaters were going to be needed for the colder evenings. They then turned the problem over to Dave Coxon from DJW Projects.

However a quick count of the heaters required plus a little calculation on the power supply revealed a problem: THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH POWER TO RUN THE KITCHEN, BAR & HEATERS ALL AT ONCE!

Along with Dr Ed Coxon & Jamie Wells, DJW’s Head of Integration, Dave developed a quirky algorithm to manipulate the supply versus base load problem. Using AMX and a whole bunch of CT’s, DJW Projects set about collecting data from the building regarding its current draw. Each heater was then installed on its own 20 amp lighting dimmer channel. As the buildings draw exceeds supply the heaters drop load across a dump priority system. This base calculation is now the basis for DJW’s green energy heating system for commercial spaces. This system offers the end user a power bill for their heaters that is representative of how busy they are. How many times have you had your heaters on under your awnings and had no one sitting there? It’s wasting energy. DJW are proud to release Green Heater Control. Utilising motion detection, DJW can turn the heating system on, up or down, depending on whether there are actually people in the space. As well as being installed new, this system can also be retro fitted to an existing system.

The entire venue is driven from a 7 inch AMX touchscreen sitting on the front counter. The AMX interface is simple & intuitive for the user & can be programmed to control just about anything non-human. The staff can control audio in any zone, control the volume of it & the actual music playing software from the interface.

The big issue, as mentioned, was the heating drawing too much power but they can easily turn up or down the heating with the interface. However, in the background we have an over ride system where if the venue needs extra power, it automatically drops some of the heaters down in very small percentages so the difference is hardly noticeable. We do that by monitoring the current draw to the various facets of the venues, we look at the main current draw coming into the venue, we look at the current draw of the building and the current draw of the heaters.

That’s all tied together with some feedback loops which gives us the information to enable us to adjust things as per what is required to keep the main below the maximum current. The technical machinery that chugs along out of sight includes Clipsal C-Bus which controls all of the lighting and the blinds. LSC EKO dimmers run across all of the heaters. Audio components include Lab.gruppen amplifiers, Symetrix processing, and EAW speakers.

Dave Evans, Hugo’s owners, stated “I’m not great on a computer and I’m certainly not a tech-head but this is so simple to operate. It controls our heaters, blinds, audio, lighting, alarm system, kitchen exhaust, air conditioning. At the end of the night I press one button and it turns everything off, drops the blinds and sets your alarm. It’s an amazing concept plus it runs the EM Stream music system. Dave Coxon & DJW Projects did a great job programming it.”

This project won the 2009 ‘ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY EFFICIENCY’ award from NECA.

The Powerhouse Museum brought back the 80′s with a spectacular exhibition that reveal’s the good & the bad about the decade remembered for it’s over the top excess. For the entry to the exhibition the Powerhouse decided the needed something special. Brad Baker contacted Dave Coxon from DJW Projects with the lighting designs for the exhibition & asked if he could build an LED colour changing Lycra ‘time tunnel’ that the public could walk through to deliver them to the decade of the 80′s & the exhibits. Working with the designs the LED ‘time tunnel’ was constructed utilising RGB ribbon tape and a single DTS mover. The Lycra canvas has slow moving color chases delivering you back in time to the 80’s & all its colourful glory! See the images for a prime example of DJW Projects ability to tailor specific solutions for one-off events.

Most recently DJW Projects conducted a complete overhaul of the World Bar system. DJW’s tech team removed all the amplifiers, cleaned and serviced them before rebuilding and repatching the system increasing the functionality and presentation of the World Bar rig. This highlights clearly DJW superior customer service offering this kind of overhaul for a venue that we first installed in over 5 years ago. DJW like you are here for the long haul.

The sound system is built around a core of Symetrix processing with a selection of Lab Gruppen and Powersoft amplifiers. While some dB speakers remain in the Night Club, as World Bar’s evolution has taken place, the rest of the venue is kitted out with EAW speakers with 2 Avalon systems in the main dance areas. As testament to the old dB speakers in the Band Room, while the amp modules in the speakers blew up years ago, now, with the C-Series Lab Gruppen’s running them, they have survived well past their use by date. World Bar love to say ‘if it’s not broken, don’t fix it’, however, the Band Room is scheduled for a refit prior to summer this year.

As the low ceilings in the venue restrict the size of the lighting fixtures, Acme I-Move 5s have been chosen to adorn the roof accompanied with an assortment of disco effects, lazer & smoke machines.

“At the first meeting the discussions were centred along the lines of the client requirements and plans for the venue and its proposed operations,” said Dave Coxon, Managing Director of DJW Projects. “Rather than discuss the brands and solutions, DJW Projects’ primary objective was to understand the limitations of the building envelope to assist in the speaker design. As such DJW Projects was the only AV company to provide a comprehensive list of necessary remedial building works required to allow the sound system design to work as the owners had envisaged.”

As budget was not unlimited, and the building had over the years had proved it “leaked like a sieve” a decision was made to give audio emphasis to the main bar area and then stretch the budget as far as it could practically go for the ancillary areas.

“From the outset of the project sound and our relationship with the neighbourhood were major focuses for us,” commented Ed Loveday, The Passage’s Manager. “The venue had a history of noise complaints and we knew that it was going to be important to invest some time and money into fixing the problems.

“After numerous quotes from different AV companies we were referred to DJW Projects by a friend… and arranged for Dave Coxon to meet us on site to provide a venue quote. After explaining the style of operation we had planned for the venue, and some of the issues the previous tenants had faced the last thing I expected was for Dave to jump up onto the bar and start cutting a hole to expose the ceiling cavity. At the time, I have to say I was a little taken back!

“However, despite (or perhaps because of) his unorthodox approach he managed to identify why the venue had so much noise escaping. He also showed an extensive knowledge of the requirements of OLGR and in the end provided us with a complete sound solution – a solution that has so far been successful in eliminating the issues that existed.”

Such a long and thin space created interesting audio problems.

Five EAW MK Series speakers were used in the main bar area, staggered and opposing each other with an EAW SB150 sub at each end of the bar.

“Twelve JBL Control 28 speakers were chosen for outer areas as they are the most cost effective speaker on the market for their size and they come with an elegant bracketing solution included,” added Dave.

The install required a large number of processed amp channels so Crown XTI were used again for their value for money; three XTI1000 and two XTI4000.

“To manage the matrix of audio inputs and zones, BSS Audio BLU-100 was chosen,” said Dave. “However its format being 8*8 was only suitable as XTI could handle the additional channel delays and EQ required to provide a coherent audio solution.

“In addition as the JBL, Crown and BSS are all supplied by Jands who offer an additional discount when you use their speakers, power and processing. While this is not always suitable, in this case it has worked for all, and I was surprised at the sonic quality of the Crown XTTI amps.”

An AMX NXD-430 4 inch touchscreen was installed for the audio control.

“Whilst AMX can be regarded by some as an expensive solution, this is not so with the advent of their new 4 inch touch screens,” added Dave. “AMX has become a viable cost effective solution to multi room control with the remotes costing on par with standalone BSS remotes but with additional flexibility. In the case of The Passage we also included a c-bus module allowing control and management of the existing c-bus lighting system.”

DJ gear includes a Pioneer DJM800, two Technics SL1200 turntables and two Pioneer CDJ1000s.

Due to DJW Projects expertise in the nightclub market, we were asked to develop a proposal that meant the venue could be transformed from a bar/venue during the day to a full on clubbing experience at night. To accomplish this DJW completed a fully tailored solution including the design and build of a custom DJ console and all audiovisual and club lighting including a mirrorball ceiling. To further heighten the club experience we designed and installed a custom LED colour changing display including venue walls and the bar.

The electrical system design had to be very robust as the entire bar would spend most of it’s life travelling yet the functionality required that the client walk in, plug in a standard 3 phase extension in to the container & have power to operate.

When designing an audiovisual solution for the Settlement, we were faced with a magnitude of functionality requirements. We needed to take into consideration that the hotel catered for day time lunch trade, evening restaurant service, functions, corporate presentations & late night entertaining.

Vision played a large part in our design brief as we installed several commercial grade Pioneer Plasmas, Kramer video switching & audio support from a variety of EAW cabinets to suit each specific area. Installation took into consideration the internal, as well as external, patron usage.