
Like many towns its size in the Deep South, Columbia,
Miss., supports several churches, but with a congregation of more than
1,500, it's fair to say Woodlawn United Pentecostal Church is a popular
destination. The seven-year-old church recently conducted a large-scale
revamp of its audio and video systems, making it one of the first
churches in the area to install Meyer Sound's new M'elodie ultracompact high-power
curvilinear array loudspeaker.
"The church's original design was heavily focused on
aesthetics, to the detriment of sound quality," recalls Chris
Campbell, project manager for audio and video provider Shivelbine
Design Group. "There was no acoustic treatment to speak of,
just a handful of small sound absorption panels along the back of the
balcony railing. And there were three underpowered speaker clusters,
each hidden in a soffit. Intelligibility was nearly nonexistent."
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