First Bible Baptist

The church set out to design what can truly be called a mega church building. As such, the requirements were expansive for audio, video, stage and acoustics. The church utilizes both a concert orchestra and/or a contemporary worship band at various times. They also use their sanctuary for large-scale dramatic presentations as well as many other types of events. AVL Designs, Inc. was contracted for acoustics design, lighting, controls, Audio-video presentation, catwalks, stage rigging and curtain design. One of the first conflicts to be resolved was the location of a permanent large screen presentation display over the stage, since there was still a need to provide stage rigging and optimal lighting positions for theatrical lighting. AVL developed systems of mezzanines and catwalks that provide optimal rear projection video, lighting stage rigging, and allow better access to overhead lighting catwalks. To get video to the rear seats, a second set of rear projection screens were installed in the acoustical cloud systems. The room acoustics were designed to provide good envelopment of sound to the seating areas with a relatively high reverberation time for classical music and choral music. In this environment, the challenge was to get high definition audio to the seating area. Utilizing a numbers of techniques—including low frequency beam steering, Gunness focusing, and a careful design to place the overlap of loudspeakers in the aisles—a system was developed that meets the needs of speech and contemporary music. Extensive patch fields and digital signal routing allow rapid changeover of events in the space. AVL worked with the mechanical designer to provide a very quiet air handling system that allows the detail of the live acoustics and sound system to be clearly perceived by the audience.

First Bible Baptist

The church set out to design what can truly be called a mega church building. As such, the requirements were expansive for audio, video, stage and acoustics. The church utilizes both a concert orchestra and/or a contemporary worship band at various times. They also use their sanctuary for large-scale dramatic presentations as well as many other types of events. AVL Designs, Inc. was contracted for acoustics design, lighting, controls, Audio-video presentation, catwalks, stage rigging and curtain design. One of the first conflicts to be resolved was the location of a permanent large screen presentation display over the stage, since there was still a need to provide stage rigging and optimal lighting positions for theatrical lighting. AVL developed systems of mezzanines and catwalks that provide optimal rear projection video, lighting stage rigging, and allow better access to overhead lighting catwalks. To get video to the rear seats, a second set of rear projection screens were installed in the acoustical cloud systems. The room acoustics were designed to provide good envelopment of sound to the seating areas with a relatively high reverberation time for classical music and choral music. In this environment, the challenge was to get high definition audio to the seating area. Utilizing a numbers of techniques—including low frequency beam steering, Gunness focusing, and a careful design to place the overlap of loudspeakers in the aisles—a system was developed that meets the needs of speech and contemporary music. Extensive patch fields and digital signal routing allow rapid changeover of events in the space. AVL worked with the mechanical designer to provide a very quiet air handling system that allows the detail of the live acoustics and sound system to be clearly perceived by the audience.