Overcome reflections caused by mirror-lined walls
Clear vocals over loud music required
Enough headroom and impact for the class needed
An aesthetic look that fits a boutique studio
Lapso Studios, Barcelona
Mirrored walls and pounding beats, but every cue cuts through
Lapso Studios runs boutique cycling, functional fitness, and barre classes in Barcelona. The rooms are lined with mirrors, so sound energy bounces hard from every surface. The class lives or dies on one thing — an instructor's voice and the music landing clean over the noise of the workout.
Case Study
Leisure / Attraction
Electro-Voice
Dynacord
Europe
Lapso Studios, Barcelona
Mirrored walls and pounding beats, but every cue cuts through
Case Study
Leisure / Attraction
Electro-Voice
Dynacord
Europe
Lapso Studios runs boutique cycling, functional fitness, and barre classes in Barcelona. The rooms are lined with mirrors, so sound energy bounces hard from every surface. The class lives or dies on one thing — an instructor's voice and the music landing clean over the noise of the workout.
- Venue
- Lapso Studios
- Location
- Barcelona, Spain
- Install partner
- Fentum Pro
- Product highlights
- Electro-Voice EVC Series · Dynacord L Series, MXE5, SONICUE
The venue
A boutique studio where the sound is the workout
Lapso Studios is a high-class fitness brand in Barcelona, built around cycling, functional fitness, and barre. The energy of each class rides on the audio, the instructor's voice carrying the cues and the music driving the pace.
The rooms work against that. Mirror-lined walls reflect sound across the space, and a hard, reflective box is a difficult place to keep a voice intelligible over a heavy beat.
“Sound is one of the most important things because if there is no sound, there's no music, there's no microphone and the class really depends on the clarity of the sound. People don’t really remember what you do, but people always remember how you made them feel.”
Ishaq VadilloInstructor Lapso Studios
The challenge
Keep the voice clear over the beat in a room of mirrors
Both workout spaces are surrounded by mirrors, leading to a difficult environment for sound. While Fentum Pro could acoustically treat the floors and ceiling to try and minimize the sound energy bouncing around the room, it also needed to find the right loudspeakers to provide the right energy levels clearly focused on the participants. The studio needed level and impact for the music without losing a single word of the instructor's cues.
For a boutique studio, the answer had to match the brand — a high-class room asked for a high-class system.
The solution
FIR filtering, optimized loudspeakers and processing power
The precise dispersion of the Electro-Voice EVC Series loudspeakers helped to get away from the reflective walls. 12-inch and 8-inch models and 18-inch subwoofers driven by Dynacord L Series amplifiers were deployed. The amplifiers' FIR filters helped optimizing the speaker performance so the music hits while speech stays clean.
Extensive processing by the Dynacord MXE5 Mix Matrix Engine eventually helped to cancel unwanted frequencies and control the rooms together. SONICUE Sound System Software and a customized touch tablet interface allows instructors to easily run audio and lighting from one screen.
- Electro-Voice EVC Series loudspeakers, 12-inch and 8-inch
- Electro-Voice EVC-1181S subwoofers
- Dynacord L Series amplifiers with FIR filters
- Dynacord MXE5 Matrix Mix Engine
- SONICUE Sound System Software
- Customized GUI with tablet control for audio and lighting
"It’s amazing! I have worked in many different studios before, and I must say that the one here is world class. The sound system is fresh, it’s new, it’s crystal clear, and it allows me to deliver the class that I really want to give.”
Ishaq VadilloInstructor LAPSO Studios
The result
Crystal-clear sound with no feedback and no reworks since the install
The system has run flawlessly since the installation, with no service callbacks after the work was completed. Instructors get the voice clarity and the energy the class demands, in rooms that used to fight them. Control by the staff via the customized touch tablet interface allows instructors to easily run audio and lighting from one screen.
For Fentum Pro, a boutique studio called for a high-class solution, and Electro-Voice was the answer.
Defined speech and music reproduction
No service callbacks since install
Energy and enough headroom for every class
Audio and lighting from one tablet
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