LIV Nightclub

The world's first L Series nightclub

LIV at Fontainebleau Miami Beach has set the benchmark for Miami nightlife for the better part of two decades. In September 2024 it became the first nightclub anywhere to install L-Acoustics' L Series, and Unreal-Systems — an L-Acoustics Certified Provider based a few miles up the road — installed and helped commission the system.

The room is a difficult one by design: over 18,000 square feet across two storeys, a 1,000-capacity dancefloor, a projection-mapped stage, VIP skyboxes overlooking the floor, and the steel-truss dome known as "The Spider" carrying more than 400 video screens. Every surface is doing something visual, which leaves very little room for loudspeakers that announce themselves.

System design

Four hangs of L2D sit above the corners of the main dancefloor. Two act as mains flanking the DJ performance area; the other two border the stage and lounge at the opposite end of the room, so the floor is covered from both directions rather than thrown the length of the venue from a single position.

Low end comes from eleven KS28 — seven end-stacked in three floor clusters at the main-stage end, four more built into the face of the DJ platform. Fills handle everything the mains cannot reach: stage fill, DJ front-fill flush-mounted into the wall, and eight X12 upstairs covering the skyboxes and the back bar.

Inventory

• 4 × hangs of L-Acoustics L2D, powered by LA7.16i

• 11 × KS28 subs — 7 end-stacked in three floor clusters, 4 in the DJ platform face, driven by LA12X

• Stage fill: left and right, 1 × KS21 over 2 × A15 Wide

• DJ front-fill: 2 × X8 coaxial, flush-mounted, powered by LA4X

• Upper level: 6 × X12 over the VIP skyboxes, 2 × X12 at the back bar

Modelling

The whole room was built and predicted in L-Acoustics Soundvision before a single box went in the air — venue geometry, every listening plane, and the position and angle of each hang.

The coverage map shows SPL across the dancefloor, the stage-end lounge, the skyboxes and the bar — the check that every listening area lands where it should before anything is rigged.