Tight Timeline, Amazing AVSeventh Day Adventist Church creates immersive experience.By Dawn AllcotMany Christian churches todayput technology at center stage, neverovershadowing the minister or themessage, but not hiding or disguisingthe 21 st century tools requiredto create an immersive audiovisualexperience, either.Gettysburg Seventh Day AdventistChurch (SDAC) in Gettysburg PAhas a traditional approach to worship<strong>and</strong>, in that vein, sought subtle, yetadvanced, sound <strong>and</strong> video systemsto help the pastor deliver his message,keeping the technology firmlyin the background. The church evenrequested a flesh-colored wirelessmicrophone for the pastor so theheadset would appear nearly invisibleto worshippers. “The pastor wanteda discrete microphone,” said JameyLerew, owner/partner of BiglersvillePA-based integrator A/V Solutions,LLC. “He didn’t want to look likeGarth Brooks up there on stage.”Like many Seventh Day AdventistChurches, Gettysburg beginsits Saturday worship services withSabbath School, using the 225-seatsanctuary as a classroom or, moreaccurately, two separate classroomareas. Several church members inone class are hearing-impaired, <strong>and</strong>needed an assistive-listening system.The church also needed distributedsound in seven smaller classrooms,<strong>and</strong> infrastructure to accommodateadditional classrooms <strong>and</strong> a fellowshiphall in the future.Gettysburg SDAC leaders <strong>and</strong> thechurch’s Gary Bled, audiovisual director,called on A/V Solutions, LLC, to design<strong>and</strong> install AV systems that wouldmeet the church’s current needs, blendin with the church’s architecture <strong>and</strong>allow room for future growth.The speaker array in Gettysburg Seventh Day Adventist Church’s sanctuaryblends into the ceiling, <strong>and</strong> the video screen rolls up out of view.The contractor specified a smallbut powerful JBL AE system with a24-channel <strong>Sound</strong>craft mixing board,a Williams <strong>Sound</strong> assistive-listeningsystem, distributed sound by meansof a Rane processor, <strong>and</strong> an Eikiprojector with a short-throw lens.The projector displays lyrics, showsDVDs <strong>and</strong> broadcasts a satellite feedfrom a religious television network.During Sabbath classes, the projectorcan be hooked up to a laptop forPowerPoint presentations, as well.The church recently moved from arented space, where the audio componentsconsisted of two speakers onthe stage, tasked with covering theentire auditorium. “There was a lot ofopportunity for improvement, movingon from that system,” Lerew said.The first order of business for A/VSolutions was specifying a speakerarray for the hexagonal room. Thechurch uses mobile chairs to configurethe room in different ways. HardDawn Allcot is a freelance writer specializing in the audiovisual <strong>and</strong> health <strong>and</strong> fitness industries.walls with no acoustical treatments<strong>and</strong> 20-foot ceilings created a reverberantspace, but cloth on the chairs<strong>and</strong> carpeting on the floors helpeddampen the room.“If you saw the room, you mightthink it would be very live. But it’snot as active as you’d think,” Lerewsaid. “Because the room is not a big,square box with 90-degree angles,we had to be creative in making surewe had the right dispersion pattern.”The integrator selected the JBLAE series, hanging two AM4200/95medium-power, mid-high frequencyspeakers <strong>and</strong> one high-powerASB6118 18-inch sub directly abovethe center of the stage. The systemis able to h<strong>and</strong>le the high frequenciesof spoken word <strong>and</strong> the lowerfrequencies required for organ musicwith ease. The speakers offer awell-controlled 90-degree by 50-degreecoverage pattern <strong>and</strong> are hungvertically, close to the ceiling. The20 <strong>Sound</strong> & <strong>Communications</strong>www.sound<strong>and</strong>communications.com
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