House of Worship Sound and Section Elections

Center hung speaker cluster using large format JBL components to tightly focus the sound into the audience in this highly reverberant space

Front - of - House mix position is located at the top of the balcony. On the left Barry James, AES committee member, inspects the FOH rack. On the right Julian Thomas, sound engineer for the church, operates the Ramsa mixing consoles.

Scott Dean, the Director of Music, tells of the process of selecting an architect, acoustician, sound contractor to meet the needs of the church's various musical groups.

Martuero, directed by Don Prior, performs two numbers, one with amplification and one with out so attendees can hear how the acoustics of the space support the human voice. Note that Rick Smargiassi, AES PNW committee member is filling on the drums for this number.

How 'bout that? We got about 20 attendees in the back of the organ chamber to hear Scott Dean tell of this great, and also very big, instrument.

Rick Smargiassi, AES PNW committee, moderates this session of Sanctuary Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement for Houses of Worship.

Ron Hyder tells of his role in the design process, being the sound engineer for one of the church's musical groups, Martuero.

Ron Simonson, Vice President of Capital Communications tells of the various components of the sound system design and how the speaker system design was part of the acoustical design that was needed to provide intelligible sound in this highly reverberant space.

View of the sanctuary from the balcony showing the organ, choir loft, altar, and attendees.

View of the sanctuary from the back of the lower level.

View of the audience seating area from the altar showing the lower section and the balcony.