St. Peter Chanel features Renkus-Heinz Iconyx loudspeakers
USA - Founded in 1998 as a mission of St. Ann's in Marietta, Georgia, St. Peter Chanel has grown continually from its original six families, becoming a parish in 2000, and today includes over 2500 families. A new church, completed in 2008, adds a traditional neo-Gothic note to the St. Peter Chanel campus, yet features a contemporary audio system featuring Renkus-Heinz Iconyx loudspeakers.

Designed by CDH Partners and built by Van Winkle & Co, the traditional cruciform church includes a 1224-seat sanctuary and a smaller chapel that is open 24 hours a day for Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. Lee Sound Design of Atlanta, Georgia designed the acoustical treatment for the new church. The sound system was designed and installed by Baker Audio of Norcross, Georgia.

"St. Peter Chanel contacted us in the spring of 2007," recalls vice president Jason Hicks. "They had some budget constraints, but needed a sound system that would do three things at once: accommodate the needs of the current congregation, be ready to handle further growth, and preserve the beautiful traditional aesthetics of the sanctuary.

"Our EASE analysis revealed that we needed highly directional loudspeakers," continues Hicks. "At the same time, we needed something compact. Our objective when working in a space like this is to emphasize its natural beauty in a transparent fashion by using speakers that are aesthetically pleasing."

Baker Audio's solution was a pair of IC8 Iconyx Digitally Steerable Arrays. Microphones and other inputs are mixed on a Yamaha M7-CL console whose 48 channels provide lots of room for expansion as the church continues to grow. "It's user-friendly, and an outstanding value," saysproject manager Jacob Dylan.

(Jim Evans)


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