CURITIBA, Brazil – Located in southern Brazil, the Central Adventist Church of Curitiba recently completed a renovation that increased its seating capacity to 2,200 people and added a modern new design for church goers, who are drawn in part by services featuring chorale music and other live performances.
The sanctuary includes a ground floor and three mezzanine levels overlooking an open altar area, which has a four-story glass wall above it. Diego Brito of AMI International opted for a Renkus-Heinz Iconyx system to provide sound reinforcement. The new system was installed by Carvie Music.
"The glass back wall creates immense reverberation," said Brito. "And to maintain the altar's aesthetics, we weren't able to us the wall for mount support. Nothing can obstruct the view of the altar from any seat in the church."
The original plan called for a traditional line array to be used, but rising costs in acoustic treatments caused an alternative solution to be found. Carvie decided to use an Iconyx IC-R digitally steerable system from Renkus-Heinz.
"The Inconyx technology significantly reduced the need for acoustic treatment and it gives them great musicality with improved voice intelligibility," said Brito.
Carvie flush-mounted two Iconyx subwoofers inside a wall recess to help maintain aesthetics. Two IC16-R loudspeakers are permanently affixed to custom-designed mounts built directly into the altar. RHAON is used for digital signal processing, and Renkus-Heinz Audio Operation Networking DSP firmware to control the Iconyx system.
"The IC-R system was a great solution for the church because of its digital control capability," said Brito. "The beam steering is ideal for keeping sound off the walls."
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