Pioneer Pro matches the mood at Tequila and Mezcal House

The Lucky Day Tequila & Mezcal House is a cosy bar in Las Vegas that is stuffed to the brim with colourful Mexican art and artefacts — and an explosion of light and sound. A canopy of 15,000 programmable LED lights of all shapes and sizes dances and plays above patrons as they sample one-of-a-kind cocktails and sway to the enchanting music.

Local restaurant and bar development company Corner Bar Management opened the 280 sq m Lucky Day Tequila & Mezcal House in early 2020, in the artistic Freemont district of Las Vegas. It was the company’s sixth project, with two more restaurants having opened since. A foundation of all Corner Bar Management venues is a well-equipped, high-quality sound system.

The company’s founder, Ryan Doherty, says: “We create unique DJ-driven environments, and we pay a great deal of attention to the sound system. Music is a big part of our atmosphere, so we need to get it right. To match the size and aesthetics of Lucky Day, and for the level of quality we wanted, our integrator suggested the XY Series from Pioneer Pro Audio. It has worked out perfectly for us.”

With the built-in Pioneer Pro Audio XY Series sound system, and a fully equipped DJ booth featuring Pioneer DJ equipment, Doherty says the entire bar is designed to become a dancefloor as the evening progresses. Once the party atmosphere gets under way, the staff pull out the bar stools and move the tables, turning Lucky Day into a full dance venue — there’s no seating after midnight.

“The small space is theme driven, so we tucked away and hid the subs all around the bar, and the mains that you do see are flown above the dancefloor, and look really good. It’s an attractive system,” adds Doherty. “The system blends in nicely — and it sounds great. The first time we fired it up, we had a lot of decorative stuff shaking off the walls. If things weren’t secure, this was always going to happen, so there was a lot of glue-gun work done.”