EAW loudspeakers for First Baptist Burleson
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First Baptist Burleson technical director JimBob Brown worked closely with Tim LaPrade from Pro Audio, a Texas-based distributor and systems integrator in Grand Prairie, Texas, to design and install the new systems.
“When I came on board the church had recently installed a system in the sanctuary that just wasn’t getting the job done,” explains Brown. “It was the wrong system for the space with poor coverage of the room. It got to the point where they decided to do something about it when I joined the organization, so I contacted Tim LaPrade at Pro Audio, to see what our options were.”
The original church sanctuary is a traditional, rectangular-shaped room with seating for 500. Stained glass, tapestries, along with plenty of brick, uneven stone and hard surfaces dominate the room.
“Unlike many traditional sanctuaries, the room is quite dead, exactly what you would want,” explains Brown. “The unevenness of the stonework and the tapestry does a great job of diffusing sound. Our problem was not reverberance, our problem was coverage. We started the process with a thorough site survey and ultimately determined that a point source system was the solution. Tim recommended we utilize EAW QX loudspeakers for their clarity and coverage.”
LaPrade worked with the EAW application engineering team to confirm that the design he specified would provide the coverage they required. The new sanctuary system is made up of left/right hangs of two QX596i loudspeakers hung 32ft up. Two more QX394s are utilized for delay-fills for additional balcony coverage. Two SB528z subwoofers, stacked in the left and right corners of the room, provide the low end the services require.
“When the installation was complete, everyone was absolutely delighted,” adds LaPrade. “The room is blanketed with even, high quality sound that provides musicality and vocal intelligibility. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t long after this was done that they started talking about upgrading their multi-purpose room as well.”
(Jim Evans)
