The installation at the St. Francis of Assisi Church initially presented many challenges to the team. It's a very large space with polished concrete floors, CMU walls and granite and marble covering the substantial altar platform, all of which work together to create a very reverberant room. There was a desire to maximize the presentation of sound without filling the entire auditorium with large, overbearing speakers, which is why Morgan Sound president Charlie Morgan ultimately chose the JBL PD series, powered by Crown amplifiers.
"As the Application Engineer at JBL, Jay Fullmer's advice was most helpful in using the PD boxes," said Charlie Morgan, president of Morgan Sound. "The sound in the room is focused, very intelligible and even throughout the entire seating area. In short, we couldn't be happier with the result."
In addition to the JBL PD series loudspeakers and Crown amps, there are JBL Control 29AV loudspeakers, all of which are controlled by a BSS London processor. An analogue mixer on the platform gives the choir director control of the local inputs, and there is also the option to run everything in static mode with 16 microphone channels controlled through the BSS London processor.
(Jim Evans)
