WASHINGTON, NC – David Williams, president of Greenville, N.C.-based Hi-Tech Electronics, specified 12 WorxAudio TrueLine V8-P powered line arrays and two TL218SS-P Super Subs for Harvest Church, which rang in the new year in 2010 with a sanctuary that had been planned as far back as 2005.
"This project involved new construction, and I'm pleased to say we were brought into the design process right from the start," said Williams. "This was a particularly challenging room because of the location of the stage / altar area. The room is roughly 65 feet deep by 80 feet wide, but the stage resides in the corner and faces diagonally into the sanctuary. This arrangement made the field of coverage quite unique.
"Harvest Church is a non-denominational house of worship with very contemporary worship services," Williams continued. "There is also a considerable emphasis on music. In addition to a six-piece praise band and a praise leader with a small vocal group, there is a 30-voice choir.
"Given the nature of their services, it was essential that the sound system offered both a high degree of speech intelligibility and solid music reproduction capabilities," Williams added.
The WorxAudio TrueLine loudspeakers are arranged in two clusters-each with six V8-P elements- flown over the left and right front edges of the stage / altar area. The loudspeaker arrays are suspended using WorxAudio's TrueAim Grid. Using a single industry-standard schedule 40 pipe for the array's suspension and a pipe coupler with an exit point through which all wiring can pass, the system creates a streamlined appearance where the loudspeaker array appears to float in the air.
The TL218SS-P subwoofers are positioned one on each side of the stage and vertically aligned with the loudspeaker arrays overhead. Additionally, a single TrueLine M80-P is suspended over the center stage area and serves as the choir monitor.
"Because of the stage's corner location and the approximately 550 people in attendance during services, we were very concerned about even coverage throughout the space," Williams said. "This is a key reason why we selected the TrueLine V8s."
The V8s, Williams noted, have 140-degree horizontal dispersion and throw characteristics needed to reach all areas of the sanctuary. The fact that the system is self-powered was another benefit.
"The price of the powered models may initially add to the system cost," Williams said, but he added that those costs are "more than offset when you factor in power amplifiers, amp racks, all the additional copper speaker cable, and storage facilities for the amps" for a non-powered loudspeaker system. "The TrueLine V8-P powered line arrays and TL218SS-P Super Subs were, unquestionably, the right decision.
"We were fortunate to have enough budget to have the sanctuary acoustically treated," Williams added. "The clarity, intelligibility, and overall musicality of the system are really impressive. Everyone at Harvest Church-including Pastors Tad and Treva Tankard-has been singing the praises of the new system's performance."
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