The latest roll-out of the Rock & Brews American bar/diner concept, specialising in classic rock, has opened at the Potawatomi Casino Hotel - a gaming and entertainment destination in Carter, northern Wisconsin. This follows the concept’s reported success at the nearby Casino Hotel, Milwaukee, where the Potawatomi Tribe first embraced the concept in the year prior.
Both operations feature a heavy deployment of Martin Audio products, installed by Green Bay-based partner, CCCP (Camera Corner). At both sites, they were subcontracted to carry out the installation by principal contractors, Audiotek, who supplied the visual media.
CCCP has a long-standing relationship as AV provider to the Forest County Potawatomi Tribe. CCCP project designer, Scott Tomashek, said the client had been keen to maintain consistency with Martin Audio having been impressed with its performance in Milwaukee, where it had been specified by Audiotek. Impressed by the Rock & Brews concept there, the operators decided to convert the restaurant at their Carter site.
“We were pleased to see that a lot of Martin Audio equipment had already been specified by Audiotek, as we have been partners with them for a number of years. Everyone was happy to be working again with a brand with which we were already familiar, and trusted,” said Tomashek.
At Potawatomi Casino Hotel Carter, CCCP once again worked closely with architects, I-5 Design. But faced with a smaller 3,000sq. ft. footprint than Milwaukee, with a reduced stage and restricted ceiling height, a change of approach was required. CCCP turned to an alternative flown system other than TORUS, which had served them so well in Milwaukee.
“FlexPoint became the obvious solution, and it worked out really well,” Tomashek explained. The primary system is the largest FP15 - a single box flown left and right with the two subs set adjacent in the centre. “This is a relatively compact box that still has plenty of output. And because we had to fly subs directly in front of the stage area, the ability to use the SXC115 cardioid versions meant we could keep some of that low-frequency energy off the stage area,” he explained.