Design & Installation

Sound System Design & Consultancy. GB Audio are happy to offer full technical planning or just a bit of helpful advice. GB Audio's experienced professional team install sound equipment for theatres, recording studios, churches, offices, concert halls and nightclubs. We take pride in providing a personal service, to a professional high standard of safety and neatness. We design and supply custom flying systems, trunking and cabling, meeting or exceeding statutory safety requirements and all covered by specialist insurance.

Based around the high definition Shermann GX501 loudspeakers and Yamaha amplification, the system has a mobile playback rack which can be plugged in at various positions in the studio or in the purpose built control room. 

Flexibility is the key. Low level utility panels around the room offer balanced ties lines and speaker outlets. High and low level speaker outlets are all patchable in the control room.7

Speakers are suspended from fixed bars on custom swivel brackets which allow blackouts to be draped right across the ceiling below the bars. Blackouts are needed when the space is being used for performance because it has a glass roof. This is a fantastic feature during the daytime - filling the studio with natural light and affording a superb view of Edinburgh Castle. The blackouts also improve the naturally reverberant acoustic of the space.

Efficient use has been made of some existing playback equipment in order to keep the expenditure down. This Sound System Installation project was made possible by a donation from Walker Homes.

Dancebase won the Scottish Building of the year (2002) award. 

Click here for Dancebase performances, classes and workshops programme. The 4 studios are also open for commercial hire.

One example is Edinburgh based SEStran (South East of Scotland Transport Partnership). The system comprises a number of wireless table microphone units with integral speakers, an automatic base controller and storage flightcase with built-in charging rack. As well as offering a very neat, stand-alone PA solution for meetings, the system also interfaces with and enhances the organisation's video-conferencing system. This sits well with two of SEStran's objectives: 1. Reduce the number of people commuting in single occupancy vehicles within South East Scotland – especially for journeys to and from Edinburgh; but also for journeys outwith the SEStran area. 2. Minimise the overall need for travel, especially by car.     top