NOVO Ubud — mixed-use complex, Jl. Suweta, central Ubud, Bali. Multi-zone background music across the shared spaces: 15 zones, 61 loudspeaker positions, one 32U rack — two restaurant floors, lobby, infinity-edge pool, coworking, yoga, pilates and a fitness floor below grade. Role: TAS.AC — sound system design, equipment specification and installation documentation, plus acoustic-finish recommendations for the concrete fitness rooms. Key figures: 15 zones on one matrix · 31 amplifier channels in service, 1 spare · −18 dB locked attenuation on the pool zone · launch planned Q4 2026. Status: installation under way. Every figure on this page is a design target, to be verified at commissioning.
What does multi-zone audio cover at NOVO Ubud?
TAS.AC designed the multi-zone audio for NOVO Ubud, a mixed-use complex on Jl. Suweta in central Ubud, Bali: 15 zones and 61 loudspeaker positions on one 32U rack. Most of those zones are routine distributed-audio craft. Three were not: a fitness floor poured as bare concrete boxes, an infinity pool with neighbours behind the water line, and interiors the loudspeakers had to belong to. NOVO sells a hard class downstairs and quiet living above it; the sound system lets both promises stand.
How do you design gym sound for a concrete basement?
The fitness floor at NOVO Ubud sits below grade: boxing, cycle, a games-and-power room, two locker blocks and a corridor — six zones in structural concrete, specified for 95–100 dB class levels. Push a 100 dB class into bare concrete and reflections pile onto the direct sound until the beat smears; equalization shapes what leaves the loudspeaker, not how long the room holds it — the fix belonged to the finish.
TAS.AC flagged this while the floor was still bare structure and, beyond the audio scope, recommended the materials for the acoustic and finish treatment. NOVO’s team took the recommendations straight into the build: room and system designed as one acoustic object. TAS RF-10 cabinets and an S12 subwoofer at 3.00 m carry the 95–100 dB training zones; PRO-108D ceiling units hold the lockers and corridor at 65–75 dB.
The infinity edge is also a property line
An infinity-edge pool in a residential quarter of Ubud has two audiences: guests at the water, and the villas past the edge.
Four TAS MQ308 loudspeakers — picked for a dispersion pattern tight enough to aim — cover the pool zone from 3.00 m, each tilted 40 degrees down toward the water; what the aim does not contain, the −18 dB attenuation locked in the DSP does. Inland Ubud wears equipment down with moisture and condensation rather than coastal salt, and the semi-open zones are specified for exactly that. The aiming angles are marked installation-critical: turning a speaker outward, moving it, or lifting the attenuation requires the designer’s written approval, and the pool-bar pair of MT-8s points inward under the same rule.
What does a restaurant sound system in Bali need to do?
At NOVO Kitchen & Bar in Ubud the design target is 80–85 dB: background sound present enough to carry the room, low enough that no table raises its voice, lifting for the evening without a hardware change — six Tannoy DVS 6 and two Yamaha VXS10S subwoofers per floor, tuned from the central DSP.
The second job was visual. The lobby and restaurants are the designed face of the complex — models and mounting positions were agreed with the interior scheme, and where a stock bracket could not put a loudspeaker where the interior wanted it, TAS.AC engineered custom ceiling mounts. The positions are exact — a Tannoy QCI 8 DC pair in the lobby at 3.00 m, restaurant mounts stepped floor by floor. One rule survives any styling decision: subwoofer mounting does not change without a vibration review.
One 32U rack runs all fifteen NOVO Ubud zones
The whole complex plays from one chain: sources into an Allen & Heath AHM-32 matrix, zone processing in TAS.AC XTP DSP units, then eight DX4035 four-channel amplifiers — 31 channels in service, one spare. A failed channel is a repatch, not a silent zone. A fire-panel dry contact mutes every zone on alarm and releases only after the panel resets; voice evacuation is a separate fire-alarm system. Power and the 85 speaker lines follow the same one-path discipline — line spec, sequenced start and junction-box rules are itemized in the reference below.
The fifteen zones — reference
| # | Zone | Loudspeakers | Design SPL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boxing | 4× TAS RF-10 | 95–100 dB |
| 2 | Cycle | 2× TAS RF-10 | 95–100 dB |
| 3 | Coworking | 4× Tannoy SAT 3 + 1× Tannoy SAT Sub | — |
| 4 | Corridor, −1 floor | 4× TAS PRO-108D | 65–75 dB |
| 5 | Games / Power | 4× TAS RF-10 + 1× TAS S12 sub | 95–100 dB |
| 6 | Lobby | 2× Tannoy QCI 8 DC | 65–75 dB |
| 7 | Lockers, block A (−1) | 4× TAS PRO-108D | 65–75 dB |
| 8 | Lockers, block B (−1) | 4× TAS PRO-108D | 65–75 dB |
| 9 | Swimming pool (infinity edge) | 4× TAS MQ308, −18 dB locked | 65–75 dB |
| 10 | Pool bar / restaurant | 2× TAS MT-8, aimed inward | 80–85 dB |
| 11 | Restaurant, 1st floor | 6× Tannoy DVS 6 + 2× Yamaha VXS10S | 80–85 dB |
| 12 | Restaurant, 2nd floor | 6× Tannoy DVS 6 + 2× Yamaha VXS10S | 80–85 dB |
| 13 | Yoga | 4× Tannoy DVS 6 | — |
| 14 | Pilates | 4× Tannoy DVS 6 | — |
| 15 | Waiting zone | 1× Tannoy QCI 8 DC | 65–75 dB |
Head end: Allen & Heath AHM-32 matrix · TAS.AC XTP808 + 2× XTP1616 DSP · 8× DX4035 Class-D amplifiers · 5× WiiM Pro Plus · 4× mini-PC sources · STX PS18 8-channel XLR panel · TP-Link TL-SG2218 switch · EATON 5A2200i UPS · 2× Smart PDU PC-980, sequenced start · 32U Indorack IR6032P.
Power & lines: dedicated 230 V 16 A line, RCD + surge protection · sequenced start — eight amplifiers never hit the line at once · 85 speaker lines, trunk to labelled junction box or direct from the rack · every joint inside a marked box, daisy-chains banned · lengths cut on site with 10 % slack.
What does a multi-zone system like this cost?
NOVO Ubud has no published total; TAS.AC prices by scope — see how we price.
Where the NOVO Ubud project stands
Installation is under way against the May 2026 MEP documentation; launch is planned for Q4 2026. Nothing on this page has been measured in the finished building: the SPL targets and the −18 dB pool ceiling are design figures — the yardstick the commissioned system will be tuned and accepted against.
