The Elmwood Franklin School is a private elementary and middle school located in a suburb of the city of Buffalo NY. When they decided to expand their facility to include a brand-new auditorium, AVL was brought in to design both the acoustics and the sound system. The main design goal for this auditorium was to allow use of the space for the unaided performance of both drama and music, and the school also wanted to be able to use the space for unaided day-to-day programs. Voice projection needed to be extremely good to all areas of this auditorium, which is not very deep, but is fairly wide in size. To accomplish these goals, AVL designed a curved radiused ceiling cloud system that evens the projection from the stage into the rest of the room. RPG diffusor block is placed along the back wall to eliminate a focusing echo, and other materials in the room were changed in order to get the reverberation time and the diffusion characteristics of the room to create a well-blended sound from the stage. AVL also worked with ME Engineering on the mechanical designs, and collaboratively produced a mechanical system that is almost totally inaudible. Although the acoustics allow for unaided use of the space, the sound system was designed to integrate with the room in such a way that the time delay from the loudspeakers to the audience and from the stage to the audience is almost exactly the same. This produces an extremely natural sound, so that even when the sound system is in use, it does not sound like it is being used. The sound system uses Soundweb controls, a Mackie portable console, Sennheiser Evolution series wireless microphones, and QSC and Ashly amplification. With the Soundweb controls, the school can use the system on a day-to-day basis for all of their various programs without a sound operator, although they do not have to because of the superb acoustics of the space. The third grade class recently performed “Cindy Lou,” a western-style version of the classic Cinderella story. Each actor was able to be heard from every seat in the house without the use of microphones, even when they were facing away from the audience. The school is thrilled with the way that the space has turned out.