Foundation sound system

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    Foundation sound system

    The sound system in the club has been often praised by DJ's, but is it now due for replacement? I stood in my usual place on Friday and, although I hadn't been in the club for 3 months, I thought the quality of sound was shocking. It crackled, wasn't clear at all...it was so bad I couldn't make out the words in the vocal tracks.
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    Re: Foundation sound system

    wen we came into the club it sounded very quiet compared to usual.. but are po na na gonna invest in a new sound system in their 'alleged' current financial state?
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    it's well fucked, to bass heavy on the dance floor and no bass in the DJ booth. it's due a refit, it's been kicked to death dy the worlds greatest for a fair few years
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    Re: Re: Foundation sound system

    I dont think PO NA NA own it anymore... got bought by someone didnt it?

    well, it was in the papers anyway. :p
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    all this hard house i say like :lol: :lol: ;)
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    Re: Re: Re: Foundation sound system

    what i read was that pnn sold some of their less profitable clubs and some of th bars off to cut operating costs or somethin.. thought foundation had been spared.. :) not sure tho...
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    I'm no sound expert.. but couldn't they buy a few more speakers, not many, that would be made or used just to play treble? Wouldn't that level it out?
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    with u on that one 100% m8 i no sfa about the technicalities of sound systems but the 'treble' side of things has been lacking for a long time.. which doesn't reeli help if u got djs playin trance..
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    it's always sounded bass heavy, it's never been the clearest, just powerful as fuck. when picotto first played promise was the loudest I have ever heard it, my ears were ringing for days, I take ear plugs now.

    It needs a full refit speaker wise I think, the kit in the DJ booth is ok apart from a dead spot in the cross fader.
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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Foundation sound system

    I'm pretty sure foundation was sold.
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    i think its a poor system. After being back to crasher last week, the foundation system sounded quite bad on friday. the crasher system is amazing now. so clear its unture....
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    isnt that one of those things that mixes booze with crushed ice for slush puppy things?
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    PHAZON was part of the Twilo business. Best soundsystems in the world, Cream was the only club to have one till Twilo shut and Sankeys get that one. Really good stuff, dunno if Phazon are still going ? The foundation one is thunder-ridge, it's been blew to bits :lol:
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    dunno m8, I know they got a second hand system from somewhere. Fcuking good it was too :eek: clear as a bell and loud as fcuk.
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    Twilo was apparently unreal :eek: it's all clever shit. Yeah we could do woth some of that :D
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    Amnesia in Ibiza has a Phazon :eek: :eek: am sure of it and its the puppies bits

    I have never heard music so crisp and so loud - when the bass gets dropped then whacked back in there's people litteraly jumping with fright and shitting themselve :lol:

    Best sound systems i have heard are Amnesia obviously, Promise when it was just replaced, GK @ Code and Crasher !

    :D :D
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    after hearing crashers sound system last sat i thought promise sounded poor,

    i know some dont like eddies scratching........... i for one do, at the end he said he didnt scratch at all because of the sound sysem, cant remember his exact words but he said it were poor like.

    :( :(
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    i might be gone in the head but im sure there was some small smeakers i had never seen before on the uprights running parallel to the booth in the middle uprights of the dancefloor
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    Yeah Sankey's did get Home's system, have to get down there some night like!
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    Phazon.... hmmm bass!

    Think I'd be in a worse state than normal if foundation got one of those :)

    As for the sound system, the only thing I wouldn't touch would be the vestax pmc 55 mixer. It is pretty good (I've used one myself), but the reliability is shit. Breaks far too easily.

    The one in Trades broke two years ago and they've still not properly fixed it (probably because they keep sending it to promotiontimedj :p)

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