[TimR]

On Aug 28, 1:51*pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:


In cases like this, you have two choices. *Either you design the hall to
be as dead as possible and you rely on electronic amplification for whatever
ambience you need, or you build the hall deliberately so the room reverb
time and parameters can be adjusted. *Moving curtains, adjustable traps,
fibreglass banners that are raiseed and lowered are all possibilities that
a good acoustician should suggest.


I see that I did not read precisely enough the first time.

I thought people were recommending a sound system expert, and that's
what seemed reasonable to me. But an acoustician is differerent, I
think?

It may be too late to affect the acoustical design of the hall, and I
can pretty much guarantee this is not a factor that was considered,
because I review a lot of designs for this organization. I have
access to a similar church already built about a three hour drive
away, I guess I need to get up there and look at it.

My home church (not this one) is an older traditional liturgical
church. If I drop a handbell, I can polish it and put it back in the
case before the room stops echoing. (slight exaggeration, but it's
pretty live) We don't do contemporary but tried it once and it was
truly awful. Is sustain the biggest thing to look for?