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Health and safety update at Trinity Church

Health and safety update at Trinity Church

Health and safety update at Trinity Church

USA: Trinity Church in the Texan city of Lubbock was required to remove its old asbestos insulation and install a new sprinkler system to meet health and safety regulations. With these renovations being imposed, the church leadership decided to refresh the 2,000-seat auditorium in its entirety while works were being carried out. The congregation helped to fund this total renovation, which also included a new sound system.

‘We have a dome-shaped ceiling which can really cause problems with reflections, and certainly that was the case with the old [sound] system,’ explains Michael Koontz, pastor of technical arts at Trinity Church. ‘In many seats there was no sense of directionality, of a defined sound source. Sound was spreading out and bouncing off every surface.’

Summit Integrated Systems, a systems integration company that specialises in house of worship solutions, was called upon to design and install the new sound system. A system formed from Meyer Sound’s Leopard linear line array loudspeakers was specified, and while the removal of the asbestos increased reverberation, the directional control of the systems circumvented any major issues.

‘We had been advised to spend from US$50,000 to US$100,000 on acoustic treatment to control the room,’ noted Mr Koontz. ‘But, with the new system's precise and controlled coverage we didn't really need it. That was a pleasant surprise. With the Leopard arrays, we have a good sense of imaging localised to the front. Also, the arrays are hitting about six rows under the balcony, which means we needed fewer under balcony-fills.’

The system includes main hangs of nine Leopards per side, with two pairs of UPQ-1P loudspeakers directed at the upper and lower seating areas. Eight UP-4XP loudspeakers serve as front-fills, while a further 24 provide under balcony-fill. Summit also provided Yamaha CL5  and CL3 digital consoles at FOH and for monitors respectively, while upgrading the existing Shure UHF-R wireless microphones with new ULX-D systems Shure PSM-1000s deliver wireless in-ear monitoring.

‘Before coming here, I was technical director at Church on the Rock here in Lubbock, where we had installed a Meyer Mina system for the 750-seat space,’ reveals Mr Koontz. ‘We were extremely impressed with the headroom, transparency and speech intelligibility. So for this system, it was mostly a matter of scaling up to Leopard to fit the larger room.’

‘It has tons of output, which allows the church to push the system without getting into limiting so the transparency is still there,’ says Joe Jones, project manager for Summit Integrated Systems. ‘We had no problems with weight, and commissioning went smoothly as we dialed everything in on Galaxy processors.’

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