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"I wish to
express the friars' satisfaction. Following
the good results achieved, they intend
asking the supplier to provide a similar
system for the Sanctuary of Santa Maria
Delle Grazie, where the mortal remains of
Saint Pio are kept. I must say that the faithful
and pilgrims, who previously had difficulty
understanding sermons in the new
church, have also expressed their appreciation
of the tangible difference."
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The 125 - year old Sacred Heart Church, in Springfield, Massachusetts, has a visually breathtaking, yet intensely acoustically reverberant, sanctuary. Richard G. O'Connell of AV DesignBuild asked to resolve a fundamental problem: parishioners were unable to hear eulogies and sermons, and there was occasional radio breakthrough. His solution comprised new control equipment - and a pair of Iconyx digitally steerable arrays.
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Two ceiling-mounted PN212-SUB subwoofers supply the low-end impact that the younger
members of the congregation enjoy. “The subs are configured as a central cardioid array,” Roda
says, “to focus the sub-bass reinforcement into the nave and avoid exciting the clerestory
space. We continue to be impressed by the very ‘musical’ full-range punch of the
Iconyx/PNX212-SUB combination.”
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Parish Administrator Jim Herrel. “The new system has helped us reach our goals
completely”, he said. ”The music is as powerful as it ever was, and the spoken word is crystal clear
anywhere in the church. We have clearly seen an improvement in participation in our liturgies with the use
of this completely coordinated system. This was a partnership where everyone came together to make it
happen.”
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It also works well enough that in the Sunday services, the church is able to have children
participate at the altar, almost directly in front of the Iconyx, on lavalier microphones. “For the
first time ever,” comments Mike, “the congregation can hear the children’s choir properly, so
they’re very happy with that.”
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“With the new ICONYX system, St. Patrick’s now sounds as good as it looks,” says Don Beyer, “The congregation has grown enormously as a result of restoring the building and enhancing its functionality. They now average 800 people at Sunday services, which had fallen as low as 80 in the 1980’s. In addition, St. Patrick’s is one the most frequently rented churches in the Toledo area for weddings, baptisms and other family events.”
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Minister of Music and Worship D. J. Bulls is also pleased with the outcome: “It has far exceeded our expectations in every way,” he says. “It brings a new energy to our worship space; the sound is crystal clear, intelligible, and adds a great deal of vibrancy to both the spoken word and our music, with each vocal part extremely clear.” He adds: “ I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Iconyx, Curt Taipale or the guys from Summit to anyone.”
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“After it was installed, we were just absolutely amazed: it
doesn’t sound like the same choir. After our first service with the new system, an older
gentleman came to me. He usually sits near the front, but on this particular Sunday he was near
the back. ‘I’ve been coming to this church for 14 years’ he told me, ‘and this was the first time I
was able to hear every word that was spoken by the pastor.’ All of us are hearing things we’ve
never heard before.”
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Two single Renkus-Heinz Iconyx digitally steerable array
loudspeakers have brought a 1960s audio design stunningly to life for an 800-sea
church in Bethesda, MD.
The Catholic Church of the Little Flower has recently witnessed the successful commissioning
of the third sound system in its 45-year life.
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The embossed stone St. Cunégonde church, one of Montreal’s unknown treasures, is impressively topped by two identical pavilion style spires with verdigris-colored copper bell tower roofs. Directly beneath a large rose window, a monumental portal frames the main entry. The five-bell carillon was blessed in 1907; a year after the church was built in 1906, on the site of the original church, which was destroyed by fire in 1904.
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“We chose the Media
Matrix Nion for reliability and to provide
CobraNet distribution, taking analog signals
from the desks, processing and distributing
them—via D-Link network switches
for CobraNet and control traffic—to the RHAON self-powered cabinet network.
That combination allowed the entire digital
back end to be remotely monitored."
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“Shortly after the speakers were hung, our
organist walked in and asked, “Where are the new speakers?’
He didn’t see ‘em.” Says Breshears. “The challenge was that the facility didn’t
lend itself to sound reinforcement. One of the architects’
criteria was that the speakers could not impose on the facility
architecturally. We considered a tradition cluster, but nobody really liked
that idea, and then ICONYX, which gave us the option to
make good sound in the balcony and on the floor. So we put
that idea to the guys at the church and they liked the concept
of it."
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“For so many
years we’d watched manufacturers of loudspeakers improve
their products, yet this kind of space remained unsolvable,” he
says. “But ICONYX has finally made it happen in a remarkable
way. It’s a major change of direction for us as integrators, too.
Higher performances can be achieved with less equipment,
less wiring and shorter installation time. You could say the
technology we waited so long for is finally available.”
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Frode Bye concludes: “We’ve had a lot of positive feedback from users since the new system went in as well as people working there or people visiting from other churches. Even those with hearing loss comment on the sound quality; they can finally hear what is said.”
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With the visual & mounting hurdles surmounted, Design Sound Northwest turned to the acoustic problem. “We did a basic EASE model in order to optimize the coverage,” says Leppert. “The wide 140 degree horizontal pattern works well in this application, even though the two light poles are very far apart. With the digital steering we can mount the arrays flush on the poles, yet aim the sound downward so it covers the seating area well without annoying the neighbors.”
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The system comprises four self-powered PN102/LA cabinets a side, with each array totaling just under 300 pounds. These cover the entire main body of the seating and Beckles comments: “That loudspeaker has the most amazing dispersion I’ve ever seen in the horizontal, and even the bottom cabinet gives quite workable nearfield fill. We didn’t lose much coverage in the front at all – maybe six feet from the raised dais.”
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It may be Florida’s oldest retirement community, but Advent Christian Village (ACV), founded in 1913 as a unique intergenerational community in north central Florida, boasts a spacious modern church at the heart of its campus. The church recently became the proud owner of a state-of-the-art Renkus-Heinz ICONYX digitally steerable array sound reinforcement system.
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Jean Giroux concludes: “Two Renkus-Heinz
ICONYX IC32s have replaced a large system of
loudspeakers, amplifiers, crossovers, EQs, racks and
cabling – and perform far better!”
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An 18th century (1753-7) protestant church in Switzerland has become one of Europe’s latest converts to Renkus-Heinz’s unique Iconyx digitally steerable array, its users discovering that the system has opened up a new era of speech intelligibility in a room that had defeated all earlier attempts to tame it.
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The beautiful 19th-century St Peter Cathedral in Erie, PA is among the first of many acoustically challenging buildings to reap the benefits of an ICONYX installation.
The new system’s designers, regional integrator Fact AV Technologies Inc., faced the kind of challenge that ICONYX has already proved to be a world beater at overcoming.
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"The ST7 has the CDT-2
CoEntrant Transducer with a 10-inch midrange cone and
2 inch compression driver. The ST4,
which has CDT-1 with an 8-inch cone and 1-inch compression
driver, is a little brighter. Sometimes that's an advantage
in a smaller venue. We have four Renkus-Heinz PN212 subs in the center and Bag End 18-inch
subs on the sides for the organ pedal tones. There are also
four Renkus-Heinz
PN121M delays. We have a lot of headroom with these loudspeakers."
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The array at Roseville Covenant Church
is comprised of four TRAP40/7K loudspeakers forming a single-level, horizontally oriented
array, with the slightly gapped cabinets arching above the
very front of the platform. Each TRAP40/7K is assigned to cover the respective seating area in front
of it, with any transitioning between the cabinets kept strictly
in the aisles.
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“We’ve had people come in unsolicited
and tell us this is the best sounding church in Oklahoma,” says Ken Moore of AVL Systems Design.
Henderson Hills’ Associate Pastor of Music & Worship Larry Harrison is too modest to go that far,
but he will say this: “We have been extremely
pleased: the system that AVL designed and installed has met
and exceeded our expectations in every way.
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