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Multi-room nightclub · 90s retro + Latin Vibe · White acrylic finish
A downtown venue steps from the Alamo, the only club downtown with a line every Friday and Saturday night. Multi-room concept: 90s retro main dance floor plus a Latin Vibe / Miami back bar. The main floor runs dual 18 + single 18 subs with white-acrylic-finish coaxials (matched to the Miami decor). The back bar runs a single 21 sub hidden in the ceiling (real estate at premium and Riverwalk code limits visible cabinets), with two white DiaMons in the ceiling for the music. SV9 coverage fills the ambient zones. All on one FBS control network.
The brief
Multi-room concept with two distinctly themed dance areas. Main floor needed punch and clarity for 90s retro programming. The Latin Vibe back bar needed real low end without any visible cabinets (Riverwalk regulations on cabinet visibility) and with the Miami decor language. SV9 ambient coverage in the connecting hallway and the quiet zones. One FBS control system runs all of it.
The build
| Role | Product | Qty | Why this cabinet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main floor subs | Dual 18 production subs | 2 cabinets, 1 per side | Dual 18 carries the 90s retro main floor. Super loud, clean, fast, punchy low end down to sub-bass that grabs the body. The classic BASSBOSS box per BC. |
| Main floor coverage sub | Single 18 install sub | 1 cabinet near entry | Single 18 close to the door picks up the low frequency for the entry stretch (30 feet by 100 feet long). Customers feel the bass from the moment they enter. |
| Main floor tops | 12-inch coaxial install loudspeakers (white acrylic finish) | 4 cabinets | Four coaxial cabinets cover the dance floor at super high SPL but stay clean and intelligible. White acrylic finish matches the 90s South Beach Miami decor language. |
| Back bar (Latin Vibe) sub | Single 21 hybrid sub, ceiling-mounted | 1 cabinet, hidden | Real estate at premium. Riverwalk code limits visible cabinets. We built a ceiling structure to hold the VS21 single 21 sub, with an acoustic wall behind it to keep the energy from bleeding into the main dance floor. |
| Back bar tops | White DiaMons (coaxial install) | 2 cabinets, ceiling | White acrylic finish to match the 90s Miami decor. Same acoustic image as the main-floor coaxials. |
| Ambient zone fills | SV9 single-9 carbon-fiber tops | 4 cabinets | Compact single 9 with 90 by 60 horn covers the quiet zones, the bar area, and the booth seating. Consistent sound all the way through the venue. |
| FBS control system | Multi-zone DSP across both rooms | 1 main + wireless surfaces | Main floor and back bar route independently. Bartenders run everyday operation off a single control surface. |
The result
BC describes the room: "Super powerful, super loud. It grabs you all over your body. You feel every bass note, especially on the dance floor. Four diamonds, one of two SSPs, that is it." The custom hidden VS21 in the back bar gives the Latin Vibe room a low end that rattles customers in a "nice way" without visible cabinets. The venue runs as the only downtown club with a line every Friday and Saturday.
In their own words
From the interview
BC Helmick
Fullblast Sound (on the Riverwalk multi-room build)
We are in beautiful downtown San Antonio, at a venue that is just steps away from the Alamo. This venue sounds amazing. It has a lot of powerful low end, and it is a multi room club. They have a 90s retro club as a main floor. This is the only club downtown that has a line every Friday and Saturday night. When you come up here, you are gonna get hit real hard in the chest. It is super powerful sound. It is super loud. It grabs you all over your body and you feel every bass note, especially on the dance floor. For that dance floor, they are using the BASSBOSS SSP218. This is a double 18 inch powered subwoofer, and I would consider it the classic BASSBOSS box, because what this box does, it does everything. It gives you super loud, clean, fast, punchy low end, but then it goes down and it gives you that sub bass that just grabs your body and massages your entire body. That room has two of those, one on each side of the dance floor. The room is really long. 30 feet by about 100 feet from door to door. So we put a single SSP118 close to the door. That single 18 picks up all the low frequency for that whole area from the time you walk in all the way to get to the dance floor. As you walk around the corner, there is a tunnel room and you walk into the Latin Vibe Miami Vibe bar. That whole room is powered by a single VS21 for the low end. It is placed up high off the ground because in that room, the space was at a premium. So we had to find a subwoofer that would really rattle people, but we needed to make it invisible. So we built a structure up in the ceiling and we have a wall behind it to keep the energy from going to the other room. When you walked in that room, you were like, man, this is not your ordinary club sound. It is very deep. It takes control of your body. It rattles you in a nice way. Look up and you will see two DiaMons in the white acrylic version to match the decor circa 1990s Miami. That dance floor has a very high sound pressure level. It is super loud, but it is super clear. It is not ear piercing. People are screaming at the top of their lungs to their favorite song, and you can hear every single lyric, no problem at all. And that is coming off of four. That is it. Four DiaMons. After you leave the dance floor, the SV9s take over and fill the rest of the venue up in the quiet spaces, by the bar, the booth seating.
Inside the room
Watch the install
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