Church Ceilings
Posted by jdbsound on January 8, 2016
Tip of the day.
If your planning a new church or plan on buying or leasing a commercial building, there is no instance where a floor and ceiling that are parallel that sounds good. Sure, there are a lot of churches and worship spaces that have parallel floors and ceiling but when compared to cathedral, vaulted or angled ceilings, there is a huge difference.
When the ceiling and floor are parallel, it is harder to manage the stage sound, congregational singing suffers and room coverage suffers too. It is harder to get good bass sounds as the frequency is limited by the height of the room. So if you have a 20 ft ceiling, sounds below 50 Hertz will distort as you increase the volume to “feel the sound.”
To change the room, changing the ceiling is cheaper and better than changing the floor as the angle of the floor is limited to how long people have to stand on a sloped floor. The more time you spend worshiping on your feet, the less a sloped floor makes sense.
When you change the ceiling, you can also make the acoustical treatment tunable at no extra cost. Tuning means you are equalizing the room passively. This form of control remains more stable when humidity and temperature changes. Congregational singing increases humidity within the first five minutes and temperature within the first eight minutes of worship. If you find your mixes are falling apart after the second or third song of singing, it is because the room changed, not because of your mixing skills.
Tip of the Day
Joseph De Buglio
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