Garden Centre Background Music

Garden centre background music system (BGM)

This award winning leisure and hospitality site required a multi-application audio solution. Primarily used for garden centre background music, the audio system also needed to provide ad-hoc voice announcements (public and staff) as well as demand and scheduled playout of store messages and advertisements.

Our Audio Design

Our garden centre music system design solution was based on traditional 100v line for primary distribution to speaker line circuits and loud speakers. Four audio zones were created to enable targeted audio – corresponding customer services and microphones were installed to enable zone selection for announcements. Multi-zone, multi-channel power amplifiers were installed to provide independent zone volume control. This design approach also provides improved resilience should one speaker zone and line fail, the remaining will continue functioning.

An IP / network based audio message player was installed to provide the following audio functions:

1. Background Music (BGM) – from a 3rd party ‘curated’ music content provider
2. Recorded Messages (eg. store closing)
3. Advertisements – scheduled playback

To ensure high quality audio and music playout, full range, 2-way, wide dispersion loud speakers were installed throughout. Local volume controls were installed to each zone to provide levels control for different areas – especially useful in the hospitality and outside, where ambient volume levels change regularly and predictably through the course of the day.