Ants Pants — all-day restaurant and pool venue at Family Nest, Pecatu, Uluwatu, Bali. An autonomous sound system in the venue’s own 24U basement rack — 27 loudspeakers on four amplifiers, analog lines to every driver — joined to the resort’s estate audio by one Dante link. Role: TAS.AC — technical design, installation and commissioning, turnkey, inside the single Family Nest low-voltage contract. Key figures: 27 loudspeakers in 5 zones · 19 of the resort’s 59 cameras · 34 copper lines in one star, 8 access points · working drawings September 2025, commissioned January 2026. Status: operational since January 2026 — its first months of service were Bali’s rain season.
The niches a concrete schedule nearly closed
Ants Pants went from working drawings dated September 2025 to a commissioned venue in January 2026 — four months on a live construction site. Two parts of the job were the real work, and the first was concrete.
The two TAS S18V subwoofers at the pool sit flush in the deck, in 700 × 750 mm niches at the edges of the pool zone, aimed at the water. A niche is the general contractor’s concrete work, not the AV crew’s — and on a live site, an opening with no obvious purpose is an opening someone will close.
That nearly happened. TAS pressed the point through the finishing schedule, drawings in hand. The niches stayed open; the subwoofers went in flush. The payoff is the deck: bass at the water with nothing standing on it.
How do outdoor speakers survive at a Bali pool?
The exposed zones at Ants Pants — the pool deck and gazebos in Uluwatu’s coastal air — run TAS outdoor loudspeakers, with the stereo MR541 pair on the veranda columns at 2 m, tilted 10 degrees toward the pool. Commissioned in January 2026, these zones opened straight into the rain season.
The S02 earns the gazebo by size: a 68 × 128 mm cabinet on a timber beam, smaller than the ceiling fan beside it — photographed in place on 29 January 2026. The MR541 pair doubles as the design’s front for DJ events; daytime dining and an evening DJ set run on the same system.
One Dante link joins Ants Pants to the estate loop
The restaurant’s audio is self-contained: sources reach the four amplifiers in its own rack, and the final runs to all 27 drivers are analog lines. The tie to Family Nest — shared sources and control across the 15-zone estate loop — is one Dante link, the second piece of real work: the network did not carry Dante on the first configuration. It took iterations; it holds. Staff set zone levels from the estate’s Custom Control app.
How is CCTV handled at a restaurant inside a resort?
Ants Pants carries 19 UniFi cameras on the venue’s 34-line copper star, recorded in the same UniFi Protect as the rest of the resort — 19 of Family Nest’s 59 cameras, one surveillance system across four venues.
The five zones — reference
Coverage as the venue counts it: Restaurant 1F · Restaurant 2F · Coworking 2F · Pool · Gazebos.
| Zone | Loudspeakers | Amplifier |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant, 1st floor | 5× Yamaha VXC6 in-ceiling · 4× Yamaha VS6 · 2× Yamaha VXS10S subs | JL Audio 4X50D (one sub on the BJ435D) |
| Restaurant + coworking, 2nd floor | 5× Yamaha VXC6 in-ceiling | JL Audio 2X25D |
| Pool | 2× TAS MR541, stereo, 10° tilt · 2× TAS S18V subs, flush in niches | TAS BJ4100D |
| Gazebos & far deck | 6× TAS S02 · 1× TAS MR204 | TAS BJ435D |
Rack: 24U, basement — 4 amplifiers, patch panels, 48-port PoE switch, PDU, UPS · 27 Crimson 2×2.5 speaker lines, 610 m specified · modelled SPL 93–96 dB at 1 kHz. Network & CCTV: 34 Cat.6E lines in one star, 970 m specified · 19 UniFi cameras (12× G4 Dome + 7× G4 Pro) · 8 access points — 5 indoor, 3 outdoor mesh at the pool · 7 RJ45 sockets · Hikvision 3 kVA UPS behind the CCTV.
What does a restaurant sound system cost?
There is no published total for Ants Pants; TAS.AC prices by scope — see how we price. The number moves with zone count, how many loudspeakers live outdoors, civil coordination such as flush subwoofer niches, and whether the venue ties into estate infrastructure that already exists.
Half a year in service at Ants Pants
Ants Pants has operated since January 2026. Its first months were Bali’s rain season — the outdoor zones took their acceptance test in service. Support requests since opening have been operational rather than technical: typically a zone reported silent turns out to be a level pulled down in the control app. No measured figures are published; the verifiable record is two working-drawing sets, the installed system and six months of daily operation.
