Big Sound in a Small Room: Eggy Uses L-Acoustics L-ISA Hyperreal Immersive Sound to Conquer a Challenging Performance Space Big Sound in a Small Room: Eggy Uses L-Acoustics L-ISA Hyperreal Immersive Sound...

Full-surround L-ISA design scales perfectly for the club to give the band and audience an immersive experience

DEERFIELD, Massachusetts – February 2026 – Immersive sound draws massive crowds to large music venues, delivering a consistent sonic experience to every seat in the house. Now, smaller venues are discovering it can transform their performance spaces, too—especially acoustically challenging ones. When up-and-coming jam band Eggy recently played two nights at Tree House Brewing, a certified “Beer Mecca” in Deerfield, Massachusetts with an L-Acoustics L-ISA sound system brought in for the event by locally based Klondike Sound, the shows proved immersive sound scales seamlessly to intimate venues.

“A lot of people have this preconceived notion that because it’s five arrays for the main Scene system, plus subs and surrounds, L-ISA is only for installs, arenas, or giant ballroom types of spaces,” comments Jason Raboin, Managing Partner at Klondike Sound, a Deerfield-based live-event AV systems provider. “The reality is that it took our two technicians and four stagehands no more than four hours to set up the entire system. L-Acoustics has made immersive sound efficient and effective for any sized space.”

Tree House Brewing’s 400-capacity Deerfield venue regularly draws lines out the doors, thanks to its world-class IPAs. But it also comes with a slanted glass roof and hard, reflective surfaces throughout, vintage remnants of the facility’s origin as a textbook manufacturing house. “It’s definitely a challenging space, acoustically, but we had just acquired the L-Acoustics L-ISA Processor II, and the Eggy shows there gave us the perfect opportunity to prove the concept for an immersive system in a mid-sized space.” The system would need to provide a consistent experience throughout the venue while directing energy away from reflective surfaces, and L-ISA delivered.

Born from a New Haven, Connecticut high school dream in 2016, Eggy brings a harmonic pop inflection to the jam-band genre through a blend of funk, psychedelic rock, blues, and improvisation. While the band has played major engagements, including Tennessee’s Bonnaroo festival, they’re very much at home in the smaller, more intimate venues they first came together in a decade ago. L-ISA made Tree House Brewing and Eggy a perfect fit.

Klondike Sound’s system design comprised five Scene arrays of two L-Acoustics A10 Focus and one A10 Wide each, with four flown KS21 subs and eight X8 surrounds, powered by three LA7.16 amplified controllers and all managed by the L-ISA Processor II. FOH audio was mixed through a Yamaha DM7 console. The relatively compact system faced acoustical and truss-placement challenges, Raboin notes. “But what these shows proved was that, with L-ISA, immersive sound can be scaled as needed in any venue,” he says. “This was our first deployment of our new L-ISA Processor II, and it delivered consistent imaging to every seat in the house. It showed us that we can bring high-quality immersive sound anywhere, and it can give the venue something that sets it apart, offering its customers a real premium experience.”

Alex Hutchinson, Klondike Sound’s Account Manager and Lead Audio Engineer, handled the system design, supervised its implementation at the venue, and ran the L-ISA Processor II while the band’s FOH engineer, CJ Portolese, mixed the shows. “Prior to the show, CJ came to our shop and brought some stems from the band so he could mix and get an idea of how the show would sound and feel in immersive,” explains Hutchinson, who had laid out a mini L-ISA “playground” comprised of 5XT surrounds and X8 as the main Scene speakers. The preparation paid off.

“The shows were awesome and went really well,” he says. “The band and the engineer were really happy with how things sounded, and we were able to get pretty creative with the surrounds because of the nature of the band: they’re kind of jammy and spacey. And the crowd really enjoyed it as well.”

The system excelled at directing the sound where it needed to be, which Hutchinson credits the A Series speakers with. “Soundvision is where that starts,” he says. “I got drawings from the venue and built it in Vectorworks, so I knew where some of the reflections would be, and that allowed me to decide on some side angles of the boxes and to keep energy off the walls as much as possible. The shows used a lot of L-Acoustics technology, to create an immersive environment and keep the sound where it needed to be,” he says. “And all of it worked perfectly.”

For more details on Eggy and Tree House Brewing, visit www.eggymusic.com and www.treehousebrew.com. Klondike Sound can be found online at www.klondikesound.com.

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