DS> Anyway, Apogee hasn't installed anything, since nothing new has been
I'm having deja vu that I've encountered this same BS before, but I can't 
place where and how.  
 DS> bought. The church system has some problems, anad the church was
 DS> exploring their options to solve them with a new speaker system, but I
 DS> think they are missing the point of their problems. For example: the
 DS> room has brick on the side walls and behind the choir and the room
 DS> echo's like crazy. The room supposedly has a resonance at 250 hz, so
 DS> the 1/3 band EQ has all bands below 50 hz cut, the 250 and 500 bands
 DS> cut, as well as several other higher bands cut (all -15 db), creating
 DS> holes that I feel destroys the balance to my ears. I suggested treating
Without knowing the layout or studying coverage or form of service details, 
there are a couple things you could consider.  Short of acoustic mods to the 
building, reducing the distance from speakers to audience cuts down on the 
relative impact of reflections and standing waves.  Cheap multitap delay 
lines allow preserving the distance-time relationship from front to back of 
the hall when used with a number of smaller speakers and amps, better than 
old systems that tried this with parallel speakers.  For music some extra 
bass reinforcement up front could be used.  
What are they using for mics?  I've found the AT mini gooseneck condensers 
give good results in church applications, by allowing low working distances 
and superior general audio quality over commonly used dynamic stage mics.  
Is there any advantage to separate music and voice systems, such as the above 
for voice reinforcement, and a typical double stack auditorium style music 
system with more relative low end and peak output capability?  
Of course, you could always do what the better churches do.  Cut out the 
music other than what members may make with traditional drums and other hand 
held instruments, while holding services out in some nice quiet woods.  
Skyclad makes that fit more naturally.  Dirty jokes on topics of ethical and 
unethical power exchange among people, or people and their environment, can 
make for interesting pieces of ritual too.  If the circle gets too big for 
everyone to hear, it may be time to split off another coven.  ;-)  
Terry
--- Maximus 2.01wb
---------------