The Bible is the de facto standard for all church worship needs including sound and acoustics.
2 Timothy 2:15
Posted by jdbsound on March 18, 2013
Completed their Sound System and Acoustical upgrade in Summer of 2012.
In the last year, all of the complaint about sound have been exchange for a growing church.
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Posted by jdbsound on November 9, 2012
The acoustical system at Calvary Worship Centre is now about 95% complete. The church hired me back to confirm the acoustical results and to finalize the sound system setup. The Midas Pro2c Mixer and Danley Speaker system are a great match.
This is not the largest church to use this acoustical and sound system combination, but it is the largest church to change their acoustics in less than 30 days. The fastest church repair was done in 7 days in Brentwood, England. The largest Church I have worked on was 6500 seating.
A member of Living Hope Church in Surrey BC where they have been using the same acoustical system for over a year commented with saying Calvary has the same balance of sound as does Living Hope which is a modest 270 seat church. Calvary Worship Centre can seat up to 2000. That is remarkable considering that one place is built as a “proper” church and the other is a converted warehouse and both spaces perform the same. (I was reminded that Living Hope Church thought they already had good acoustics but tried the Solomon system as a short term experiment. The experiment turned it a permanent installation and the congregational singing and worship has never been more exciting.)
A Member of Calvary Worship Centre said, “The sound is far better than I dared hope for this 20,000 sq ft space given my previous church experience in a very similar venue. Also, the total price was less than I expected it might be including your fees and the acoustic treatment.”
As one person mentioned at another church fixed with half round diffusers in Little Rock, Arkansas USA, he said, “you can tell if you have a good room by the number of people singing. Before only about 20% of the audience was singing most of the time and for familiar hymns about 25% were singing. Now it’s about 85% of the audience is singing all the time and you can hear the excitement and power of all those voices ring out.” Imagine that – worship and excitement in the same sentence.
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Posted by jdbsound on June 11, 2012
Who gets the final say in Church Aesthetics? The Architect or the Acoustician?
My opinion suggests that if the Architect is able to provide a space with the right acoustical performance, then they get the final say. If they fail to design a complete worship space that meets the churches needs acoustical for the life time of the church building, people like me get the final say in how a church looks. (I don’t think many Architects like this and this is why they don’t like hiring me.) Instead some churches are hiring me instead of Architects for their worship space and HVAC designs. My services cost less and hiring the Architect for just the engineering and exterior finish of the church (which the community sees every day) costs way less too.
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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
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Posted by jdbsound on May 22, 2012
Is a New Church or existing Church complete after it opens for worship or after it has the proper acoustics installed?
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Posted by jdbsound on May 22, 2012
Walls are amplifiers of sound.
Outdoors – when you double the energy with amplifiers or speakers the sound levels increases 3dB.
Indoors – when you double the energy with amplifiers or speakers the sound level of certain frequencies can increase up to 9dB or cancel the sound 100%.
Example Below:
Before acoustical treatment, there would be 1dB loss at 10 ft and 2dB loss at 40 ft. without the sound system.
After acoustical treatment, there is 4dB loss at 10ft and 8dB loss at 40 ft. without the sound system. Also, intelligibility changed from 79% at 40 ft to 92% after acoustical changes. When you add the sound system the coverage with +/-3dB
This was in the middle of the acoustical transformation
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