Acoustical Society of America
Professional audio

Banquet hall sound

A banquet hall has to do two opposite jobs in one evening: carry a speech over three hundred conversations, and then run a dance floor.

Timber dance floor lit blue at the end of a planted terrace hung with lanterns and carved masks
The dance floor at the end of the evening, on its own preset.

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Those need different coverage, different levels and different processing. A system designed only for background music fails at the speeches; one designed only for the dance floor makes dinner unbearable. We design for both, and make switching between them simple.

What that means in practice

  • Zoned coverage — the dining floor, the stage area and the dance floor addressed separately.
  • Speech reinforcement designed for a full, noisy room, not an empty one.
  • Music system sized for the level the hall will actually run at.
  • Presets for dinner, speeches and dancing, recalled from a simple panel.
  • Wireless microphones with enough channels and a clean frequency plan.

The room comes first

Halls are usually tall and hard. Absorption placed before the system is chosen means less power, less processing and better intelligibility for the same money.

Ceiling of a large hall filled with blue, green and yellow acoustic baffles hung between steel trusses
Absorption at the ceiling of a large, hard hall.

Tell us the room

Send dimensions and intended use. You get back an indicative acoustic treatment, a systems outline and a budget range.

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