Liberty Collective is a two-storey venue with five restaurant concepts, a coffee and breakfast bar, an ice cream shop and three bars serving indoor and outdoor seating areas. Its open architecture is part of the attraction, but the same high-ceilinged, connected volume created difficult conditions for intelligible background audio, leading iCOMM Communications to build the system around AtlasIED Atmosphere.
The installation is centred on an Atmosphere AZM8, an eight-zone DSP with a built-in message player, virtual wall controllers, ambient noise sensing, Tilter Filter, auto-gain, GPIO and room combine functionality. The venue is divided into east and west zones on each floor, with separate outdoor zones on each side of the building. Programming is handled through the onboard web interface, while built-in Wi-Fi lets tablets and other devices connect directly with rights-based access. Amplification uses AtlasIED DPA804, DPA1202, DPA2402 and HPA4202 models, spanning 800W to 4,800W and supporting 25V, 70V, 100V and low-impedance distributed systems.
Because garage doors open during warm weather and create substantial wind inside the building, pendant loudspeakers were ruled out. iCOMM instead placed SM82T surface-mount loudspeakers closer to listeners, while 12 IP55-rated AS-8T compact surface-mount loudspeakers were installed on light poles around the sand volleyball courts. ALA20T column line-array loudspeakers flank a 25ft-wide LED screen behind one bar, using twenty 3in full-range drivers and six 0.75in tweeters to support speech intelligibility. For a large, reverberant hospitality space, the practical lesson is the combination of zoning, placement and controlled coverage rather than simply driving the loudspeakers harder.