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With a relationship that dates back almost ten years, Middlesex Sound & Lighting (MSL) have been equipping Swingers locations in the UK and USA with a complete AV package purposefully designed for each individual space. Opened in November 2024, the Las Vegas location represents the biggest project in the company’s history, with Swingers taking up a huge 40,000 sq ft site inside Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Swingers is the brainchild of two successful entrepreneurs, Matt GrechSmith and Jeremy Simmonds, and after a successful pop-up venue in 2014 the first permanent sites opened in central London in May 2016, followed by a second venue in Oxford Circus in 2018. MSL delivered the full AV solution for both of those locations, and as a result were contracted by the venue’s ownership to equip its new sites overseas in Washington, D.C. in June 2021, followed by Manhattan, NYC, in June 2022. Leading the project on the latest location in Las Vegas was Steve Billington, Project and New Business Development Manager at MSL. “Development of the AV specifications for Swingers venues has been an ongoing process as we assess the needs of each individual site, but throughout all of them we have always used Martin Audio loudspeakers, and for professional lighting fixtures we use CHAUVET Professional, in addition to the large amounts of pixel and effect lighting that is required,” said Billington. Swingers is situated in the former home of the LIGHT nightclub within Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and offers four 9-hole crazy golf courses and a new fairground-style Carnival games arcade concept. The focal point dominating the entire central section of Swingers Las Vegas is a long,1920s style English country house, with its façade brought to life with a constant flow of video projected imagery. Here, two Martin Audio TORUS T1230 constant curvature arrays consisting of three elements, flown discreetly on each side with a pair of cardioid SXCF118 subwoofers, create a classic proscenium PA system. Four powerful CDD10 are located within the ‘sunken garden’ where the generous balcony doubles as a stage, providing a performance area or a space for corporate presentations. Further CDD10s are provided for artists’ reference sound, while in the lower section of the house is a DJ station — which comes into its own later in the day and extra lift is required. Elsewhere, no fewer than 122
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