Posted by jdbsound on May 25, 2012
Kingston Road United Church.
Location: Kingston Road, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Consulting Date March 2008
Completion Date by Church members – October 2008
Sound System installed by Westbury Sound – December 2008
- Seating capacity 500+
- Ceiling over 40 ft high
- Over 120 Cardboard Tubes custom made order and placed around the room in 8″ 12″ and 16″ half rounds.
- Between 120 to 800 hertz removed 18 to 22dB of excess energy.
- This change allowed a single speaker system to cover a whole room 134 ft long.
- Throw distances from speakers to back wall, 98 ft.
- Contractor who installed the system was surprised at how well this sound system worked and how much the room changed.
- Contractor suggested delayed speakers before the acoustical treatment was done.
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Posted by jdbsound on May 21, 2012
If you have a chance, you should read my article about sharing tooth brushes. I compare the sharing of microphones like sharing tooth brushes. In the fall when it is Flue season, many performer pass on their cold to other performers by just simply sharing their microphones. We don’t clean our microphones and the microphones are not made to be cleaned either. Read the rest here. Update includes suggestions for dealing Covid-19
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