Mater Dolorosa Church Berlin-Lankwitz

 

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Year: 2009
Client:  Mater Dolorosa Church, Berlin-Lankwitz
Services: Design, Installation and Tuning of Sound System

The Mater Dolorosa Church in Berlin-Lankwitz didn't have any sound system since the old system broke down in the 1960s and was simply not replaced.
The priest and some other members of the congregation simply got used to speaking extremely loud, but many people were simply excluded from speaking in the church at all.

For that reason it was decided to assign with the design and installation of a new sound system. The hall is in total 35m long, the reverberation timereverberation timeRT60 is the time required for reflections of a direct sound to decay by 60 dB below the level of the direct sound….

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is approximately 3 seconds. The church required that only two speakers are mounted; only DSP-controlled loudspeakers with sufficient length could meet both acoustical and architectural requirements.
The speakers and their custom-made mounting system were painted to match the color of the historic granite columns.

"Now I´m understanding every word, but where are the loudspeakers mounted at?


Equipment list:

• 2 x Duran-Audio Intellivox DC280 active Line-Array loudspeakers
• 1 x DSP-Matrix Peavey Digitool MX
• 1 x Peavey Digitool Remote Volume Control
• 2 x Sennheiser ME36
• 1 x Beyerdynamic Boundary microphone
• 3 x Beyerdynamic Wireless Systems, Handhelds