Recent sound system installations. Follow the links to see more photos.

Central Lutheran Church. New Life Communications had the opportunity to work with local consulting firm, Kehl Associates, a design firm specializing in architectural acoustics, sound, and audi-visual systems design. As every sound system project does, Central Lutheran Church had some unique requirements. One example of this unique space is that the design had to compensate for the high reverberation time. In such a room using a typical loudspeaker system puts too much reverberant energy in the room which degrades speech intelligibility making the sound very difficult to understand. Kehl Associates' design used a combination of a specially engineered central loudspeaker cluster together with a unique adaptation of a distributed system known as a pew-back or pew-bottom speaker system.  The central loudspeaker cluster utilized very-high directivity loudspeakers which, if properly used, improve speech intelligibility. In addition, small loudspeakers were installed at the bottoms of each pew, bringing the sound closer to the congregation and, thereby, further improving speech intelligibility. The pew-bottom loudspeakers were delayed digitally to provide the sense of the sound emanating from the front of the church rather than from the bottoms of the pews.  In addition, three music clusters provided high performance stereo music reinforcement. A digital microphone mixer installed in a custom console completed the system.  New Life Communications joined in the final stages of design in conjunction with the consultant.  The final adjustments, which are highly refined on a systems such as this were also performed by New Life Communications in cooperation with the consultant. A creative solution to a unique need.

Please browse some images from the project.