Saint Patrick Catholic Church is an unusual acoustical space. Originally designed
to
be the gymnasium the room has a reverberation time (RT60) in excess of 3 seconds.
The system employs three clusters of JBL large format horns time aligned using
digital signal delays. The result is intelligibility in the good to excellent range
throughout the auditorium. Prior to the installation of the system printed
sermonettes
were distributed each week so that the parishioners could read along as the priest
gave his sermon (they could never understand him!). After the installation of the
new system the church was able to save a bundle on printing because the weekly
sermonettes were discontinued.
Here is a view of the main equipment rack at St Pats
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Shure LX series wireless with antenna distribution CetecVega wireless (old!) Shure DFR11EQ delay, MicroAudio eq (old!) IRP automatic microphone ADC patchbay Atlas SACR191 sequential AudioDigital audio delay Yamaha dual cassette deck Orban 622 Parametric EQ JBL 5235 Crossover Net DOD Crossover Net QSC MX series amplifiers |
| The antique two channel Altec mixer is used to feed the output of the house plus the commentary of a sound room based narrator to the broadcast feed. Catholic worship services have many periods with no audio activity, hence the need for the narrator to fill the dead air with commentary. | St Patrick Catholic Church Mr. Don Bray, Parish Administrator Village Drive Fayetteville, NC 28303 910-323-2410 |