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Posted by jdbsound on September 9, 2016
Tube Radiators work great in any room where discerning listening is required. Whether listening for pleasure or when recording music and laying down tracks, Tube Radiators creates an ideal space for all of those activities. 
Here is one such studio. This room is both a post editing suite and recording room. The pattern of the diffusers uses 8 and 12 inch half rounds. Instead of using cardboard tubes, these are made of plywood. With the room dimensions, this pattern turned out best for creating a high end, high quality performance space that allows for quicker production times. Way to go Caleb Daniel! You did an excellent job.
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Posted in Church Acoustics, Non Church Projects | Tagged: acoustics, Architect, Audio Mastering, barrel Diffuser, carpet, diffusers, EQ. Equalizer, Hearing, HIFI, Home Studio, Home Theatre, JdB Sound Acoustics, Recording Studio, room acoustics, Signal Processor, studio, Studio Microphones, Studio Mixer, Studio Monitors, Studio Recordings | Comments Off on Tube Radiators not just for Sanctuaries
Posted by jdbsound on August 6, 2016
Churches don’t often get Reviews for their Acoustics and Sound System. Kevin Young did such a review of one of my projects. The installation company was CS Acoustics from New Hamburg, Ontario. Here is the full Professional Sound Magazine Article about the Romanian Pentecostal Church in Kitchener, Ontario Canada. Please leave any comments or questions below.
Should you have a chance, when your in the area, visit this church. The people there will give you a tour. Better yet, go to a worship service. it is different, but worth the experience. Kevin Young is a Toronto based musician and freelance writer.
Joseph De Buglio
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Posted in Church Acoustics, Church Sound Systems | Tagged: acoustics, Amplifier, Anglican, Architect, Baptist, barrel Diffuser, carpet, Church, Church acoustics, Church of God, church sound system, CS Acoustics, digital mixers, EQ. Equalizer, glass diffusers, JdB Sound Acoustics, Mennonite, Microphones, Mixers, Pentecostal, Pentecostal Church, pews, Presbyterian, Pulpit, room acoustics, scattering, Signal Processor, Sound System | Comments Off on Romanian Church gets Excellent Acoustics and Reviewed by Professional Sound Magazine Article
Posted by jdbsound on April 19, 2015
At my church, we still have an analog Mixer. It has 24 channels, 4 sub groups, Left/Right and Mono out. We use the sub groups. Vocal, Drums, Instruments and Leadership mics. The mixer has mutes on every channel, on each of the mute groups and on the 3 master outputs. Fortunately, we have a church were the acoustics are stable. We can run all of the mics open without feedback for normal worship levels. Monitors are stable and so on. It is also a good sound rig. When I run the mixer, I turn every channel on and shut off any mute switches. I control all of the levels with the sub groups. I don’t want any surprises.
This Sunday it was my turn to run the mixer as we are on a weekly rotation. Thursday night was rehearsals. Missed the rehearsal. Friday night the Youth used the sanctuary and someone used the mixer. Things were changed but it only took about a minute to set everything back.
As usually, you arrive at the church early for a pre service warmup. Dialed up a great monitor mix. Everything seem right and as typical, we rehearse and warm up with the FOH speakers off. When the worship team stopped it was time to turn on some background music. Turned on the CD player, saw activity on the channel, raiser the fader for the channel and the channel was assigned to the Mono Main Out. Raise the mono out and nothing happened. What!!!
Checked the power switch to the powered speakers. Check to make sure the processor was on and passing a signal. Nothing. Called the head tech for the church, he checked everything out. He checked the mixer and he agreed with me and thought that the power switch was faulty. He removed the power switch and bypassed it. Still no sound! Double checked and found that the power lights on the back of the powered speakers were indeed on. The head tech and I stared at each other confused wondering why there was still no sound. Then he looked at the mixer again and this time noticed that the Mute switch on the Master Mono Main out was engaged. He hit the mute switch and the rest of the sound system came to life.
In the year of mixing at the church, the Main Left/Right and Mono outs have never been muted. The mixer is a spilt mixer where 16 channel are on one side of the mixer, 8 channel on the other side of the mixer and the Groups and master outs are near the middle of the mixer. For some reason we were blinded in not seeing the red mute lights in that area of the mixer as there are other red lights in the area for other things.
Later I learned that a recently hired youth leader came from a church were the sound system was so unstable that you had to mute everything all the time. They muted anything that wasn’t needed and because they left the mixer on 24/7, they had the habit of muting the master outputs as well. The head sound tech and I had a good laugh at the whole experience. For me, I should have known better as this is about the 3rd time something like this has happened. This is the first time with powered speakers, but before I had people thinking there was something wrong with the mixer. So please, unless you have a wonky unstable system, please don’t use the master mute switches. They are great for a studio but not for live sound.
Joseph De Buglio
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Posted in Rants | Tagged: acoustics, Amplifier, analog, Church sound, church sound system, Church Sound Systems, Mixing, Signal Processor | Comments Off on I Hate Mute Switches!
Posted by jdbsound on April 1, 2015
You have a church that seats 750 people. It is a simple rectangle room with 30 ft walls, 40 ft to the peak, 80 ft wide and 140 ft long. The reverb is 2.2 seconds at 300 hertz and 1.3 seconds at 2000 hertz. An Energy Time Curve test show reflections over 30dB at one second on the ETC in the 300 hertz range. The floors are carpeted and the pews are padded seats and backs. All of the walls and ceiling are insulated drywall on 12 inch centers. Basically there is about 30dB of excess energy at 300 hertz. 300 Hertz has a wave length of 3.75 ft. The church has already tried 4 different sound systems over 10 years and all of them were designed and installed by companies that are supposed to be the best in the business and they all started off saying that the room needs to be fixed – but church board members vetoed anything that would change the aesthetics of the room – but it was OK to hang 2 ugly line arrays which lasted only 6 months.
The church is now asking for another sound system but this time all of the professional audio companies turned down the project and said to the church don’t call us back until you fix the room. Now the church board has relented and they are allowing acoustical panels to be mounted on the walls. What acoustical method or system would you use to fix the problem? What will reduce energy 30dB in this space?
For all the walls in the church, between windows, doors and bulkheads, there is only 35% of the total wall space available to mount acoustical panels on. Major issues are – Stage noise, floor monitors as loud as main speaker system in the first 10 rows. Only 20% of the congregation is ever singing. Speech intelligibility is below 85% in full range – if you roll off the sound system at 200 hertz speech intelligibility improves to 88%. Gain before feedback is very poor after 3 or more microphones are turned on at the same time. Subs never really sound right. Pastor hears echoes all the time off the side walls when preaching. Drummer can never hear himself or the other worship team members – even with the headset monitors. The are currently using electronic drums but they have tried drum shields and booths without much satisfaction.
The church used to have a 40 voice choir but they never sounded very good and now with over $150,000 invested in a praise and worship team with all the latest state of the art technology and higher trained sound engineers, they sound no better than what the choir did years ago – but they are better at entertaining people!
(note: this is a fictional church but this is based on actual events that have happened recently in three southern Ontario Churches.)
Joseph De Buglio
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Posted in Church Acoustics, Church Sound Systems | Tagged: Acoustical Blue print, acoustics, Amplifier, Architect, barrel Diffuser, Cathedral, Church, Church acoustics, Church sound, church sound system, Church Sound Systems, drywall, EQ. Equalizer, Hearing, house of worship, Microphones, pipe organ. worship, Signal Processor, standing wave, windows, worship | Comments Off on Question! What would you do to fix the Acoustics of this Church?
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.
If you wish to see additional photos of this project, visit my Flickr Photo Library. Use this link to see them. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdbsound/sets/72157607243842820/
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Posted in Church Acoustics, Church Sound Systems, Past Projects discussions | Tagged: Amplifier, Bible, brick, CAD. Audio, carpet, Cathedral, ceilings, chairs, Church, Church Sound Systems, concrete, diffusers, digital mixers, drywall, EQ. Equalizer, glass diffusers, Hearing, hearing loss, JdB Sound Acoustics, Microphones, Mixers, padding, pews, pipe organ. worship, Pulpit, room acoustics, Signal Processor, Sound | Comments Off on Kingston Road United Church
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
Updated March 2020 microphones-are-hazardous-to-your-health
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Posted in Church Sound Systems | Tagged: Audio Technica, CAD. Audio, Church, Church Sound Systems, Covid-19, digital mixers, EQ. Equalizer, Hearing, hearing loss, JdB Sound Acoustics, Microphones, pipe organ. worship, Shure, Signal Processor, Sound, Sound System | Comments Off on Microphones can be a health hazardous
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