Hello,
I'm proposing a Hauptwerk installation at the church I play at but none of us are very experienced in audio. We may hire a consultant, but I'd like to get an idea of what has worked for others.
Our sanctuary is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100x30, 2900 square feet to be exact. Long and narrow with a high vaulted ceiling. The acoustic is quite dry unfortunately as we have full carpet and acoustic ceiling tile. We currently have a very small pipe organ at the rear of the church. The choir normally sits at the front of the church near the piano (see link to pictures.) For an organ/choir anthem, they will sometimes come up to the loft with me.
I was initially going to suggest (based on recommendation) 12 Behringer 2031a monitors mounted on either side of the pipes and 1 or 2 subwoofers at the rear of the church. But the more I read and talk with others, the more unsure I am of that arrangement. Currently, there is no audio infrastructure for an electronic organ.
Someone recently suggested having speakers up front also, but I've read that you should position the speakers like you would pipework, basically coming from one general direction - unless you're purposely setting up an antiphonal division which is not ideal for a long narrow church with the console in the back. Balancing the two would be a challenge I suspect.
In a more ideal world, I'd place a new console in or near the chancel and have speakers up front so the pews under the loft could hear the organ better and so I could hop from the piano to the organ much easier. However, I seriously doubt they'd go for that idea and the organ loft has tons of unused space. In fact, all the pews except one have been removed from the loft.
As for speaker selection, I'm completely open to suggestion and realize it may be difficult to give suggestions without hearing them in the specific space.
http://imgur.com/a/g9xcm
I'm proposing a Hauptwerk installation at the church I play at but none of us are very experienced in audio. We may hire a consultant, but I'd like to get an idea of what has worked for others.
Our sanctuary is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100x30, 2900 square feet to be exact. Long and narrow with a high vaulted ceiling. The acoustic is quite dry unfortunately as we have full carpet and acoustic ceiling tile. We currently have a very small pipe organ at the rear of the church. The choir normally sits at the front of the church near the piano (see link to pictures.) For an organ/choir anthem, they will sometimes come up to the loft with me.
I was initially going to suggest (based on recommendation) 12 Behringer 2031a monitors mounted on either side of the pipes and 1 or 2 subwoofers at the rear of the church. But the more I read and talk with others, the more unsure I am of that arrangement. Currently, there is no audio infrastructure for an electronic organ.
Someone recently suggested having speakers up front also, but I've read that you should position the speakers like you would pipework, basically coming from one general direction - unless you're purposely setting up an antiphonal division which is not ideal for a long narrow church with the console in the back. Balancing the two would be a challenge I suspect.
In a more ideal world, I'd place a new console in or near the chancel and have speakers up front so the pews under the loft could hear the organ better and so I could hop from the piano to the organ much easier. However, I seriously doubt they'd go for that idea and the organ loft has tons of unused space. In fact, all the pews except one have been removed from the loft.
As for speaker selection, I'm completely open to suggestion and realize it may be difficult to give suggestions without hearing them in the specific space.
http://imgur.com/a/g9xcm