Will Roland of local firm Gracenote Consulting recognised and praised the sanctuary's unadorned sound and proposed to improve the reinforcement situation by designing a system with excellent pattern control to avoid over-energizing the walls and ceiling in the first place. The tight, low-frequency pattern control of the full range Danley SH-50 and the rich subsonic response of the Danley TH-50 proved integral to his success.
MS Audio, LLC of Jackson, Mississippi installed the system from Gracenote Consulting's design drawings. As the room has two aisle's with a centre seating section and two side sections, Roland used two Danley SH-50s powered by Lab Gruppen C48:4 amplifiers to cover each seating section with a tight split cluster in a far/near configuration. Although it would have been impossible with different loudspeakers, the SH-50s made it possible to cleanly cover the balcony without going to a distributed system.
"In the model, the -6dB seam ran right down the outside aisle, between the pews and the wall on either side," Roland explained. "I was amazed that when the system was up and running, you could really hear the seam, both at the aisle and in the front where the coverage drops just before the stage steps."
(Jim Evans)
