Sound is half of what a room feels like. The right music at the right level makes a café worth lingering in and a bar worth staying at; the wrong system — distorting at the bar, dead in the back corner, too loud to talk over at dinner and too flat to dance to at night — quietly empties the place. Aecom by VIE TEC (Aecom Pvt Ltd) designs and installs the sound behind some of Nepal’s busiest venues: background music that sets the mood by day, live sound that holds up when the room is packed.
The sound at Hard Rock Cafe. The bar at KC’s Restaurant and Bar. Nightlife sound at Barc. Background music at Nepal Coffee Company. From a quiet coffee shop to a full live-music venue, the job is the same one done at different volumes. Hear more of our work
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Background music — right across the whole room, controlled by you
Most venues live on background music, and it only works when it’s even. We zone the sound so the bar, the dining area, the terrace, and the entrance each sit at their own level and source — no dead corners, no table shouting over a speaker directly above it. And you run it yourself: from a wall panel or your phone, staff set the mood from morning-calm to evening-busy without touching an amplifier or calling us. We do this across restaurants and cafés like Evoke, Tukuche Thakali Kitchen, and Nepal Coffee Company.
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Live sound — built to survive a packed Friday
A bar with a band, a DJ, or live acoustic sets is a different problem: the system has to stay clear and punchy over a full, loud room without feeding back or turning to mush. We build live-sound setups sized to the room and how hard it gets used — clean vocals over the music, enough headroom for a real crowd, and coverage that reaches the back of the bar without deafening the front. It’s the kind of sound a music-first venue like Hard Rock Cafe or a busy bar like The Old House is judged on every single night.
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Designed for the actual room
A narrow café, a basement bar, an open rooftop, and a double-height restaurant are four different acoustic situations, and a system that’s right for one is wrong for the next. We design the sound around your actual space — its shape, its surfaces, how loud it needs to get and when — rather than fitting a standard package and hoping. That’s the difference between a room that sounds good full and one that only ever sounded good empty in the showroom.
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Mostly audio — video when you want it
Most venues want sound, not screens, so that’s what we lead with. But when you do want it — a screen wall for match nights, a projector for an event space, a system that ties music and video together — we build that too, from the same team. Say what the room needs to do and we’ll design to it.
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Runs on its own, backed when it matters
Your staff run the system every day, so it’s built to be simple: clear controls, no technician required for a normal night. When something does need attention, there’s a maintenance option and a team to call — not a supplier who sold the gear and vanished.
Hard Rock Cafe
Live music system, LED wall, Background music system
Yes — that’s the point. Zoned control from a panel or a phone, so anyone on shift sets the level and the mood without touching the equipment or phoning us.
Yes — we build live-sound setups sized to the room, with clean vocals and enough headroom for a full, loud crowd. It’s running now in music-first venues across Kathmandu.
Both. A single-room café and a multi-zone bar are the same craft at different scale. Tell us the room and the budget and we’ll tell you honestly what it needs.
Opening a café, bar, or restaurant – or fixing one that never sounded right?
