How to Know if your Church has Good Acoustics – Part 1
Posted by jdbsound on February 3, 2016
Here is the first test you can do to know if you have good acoustics. Have two people over 40 years of age standing 40 feet apart in the sanctuary. Have one person on stage and the other anywhere in the audience. With the room empty, the sound system off, with the lights on and whatever mechanical system that are on during worship, have the two people start a conversation. The person in the audience area has to be understood by the person on stage equally as well as the person on stage to be understood by the person in the seating area. This is important as all churches are used to hear and communicate from both ends of the worship space.
If the two people can converse for 5 minutes understanding each other, chances are your church is in good shape. If hearing and understanding at 40 feet is not good, then move in closer until you do. When speech becomes clear, that is the free field distance of the room.
If you can converse at 40 feet well, try moving further apart. Keep moving apart until it become hard to understand or your up against the walls of the church. If your able to increase the distance for understanding speech, then as you get further apart, the better the room most likely is. This is step one.
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