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Jubilee Fellowship Church
Compact arrays' clarity and intelligibility delivers audio excellence to Colorado-based church
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Jubilee’s mains are supplemented by an additional array of two Meyer M1D cabinets to provide sidefill at stage right, where there is a greater distance from the stage to the room’s side wall. (Faith Leach of Expressions by Faith)
For Lone Tree, Colorado-based Jubilee Fellowship Church (JFC), founded in 1998, audio and acoustical excellence were primary in swaying installation decisions for their new 700-seat, 6,370 square-foot “club-sized” venue. With two acoustic guitars, bass, electric lead guitar, two keyboards, violin, drums, four to six back-up singers, and an ensemble of 10 to 15 additional singers (mic’ed as groups), the church features what most people would refer to as leading-edge contemporary praise and worship music.
Originally housed in a school, Jubilee Fellowship’s growing congregation moved to a storefront location. Then in 2003, the church was presented with the opportunity to purchase five acres in one of the fastest growing counties in the nation.
Initial Installation
During initial facility planning, the areas of audio, lighting, and video were not readily addressed. Jeff Johnson, a member of the church’s board of directors at that time, stressed to fellow board members the fundamental necessity of presenting the spoken word with clarity. It was envisioned aloud to the board a church experience that would capture the nuances of their praise and worship team—all without inducing ear fatigue. These concepts resonated with JFC’s Senior Pastor, John Leach, who directed Johnson to assemble and chair a task force to help further define the project’s parameters.
A problematic issue that quickly became apparent was the sanctuary’s configuration. The room’s rectangular shape was designed with the stage set slightly off center along one of the longer walls. In addition to the challenge of a shallow but wide throw area was the somewhat challenging stair-stepped or “faceted” acoustical tile ceiling. The build up of frequencies, especially the bass frequencies, was a concern as the ceiling height sloped downward from 20 feet over stage center to 11 feet at the back of the room. As such, a traditional left and right sound system was out of the question.
“We knew pretty quickly that a line array would be critical to the success of sound for the room. At the time we weren’t sure what kind of line array would work—some of the traditional line arrays were monstrously big for us,” recalls Johnson.
The JFC Task Force crafted a comprehensive RFQ (request for quote) and, ultimately, Audio Analysts, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was selected as the turnkey contractor. The Task Force based their decision on a number of criteria. Audio Analysts demonstrated a consistent grasp of JFC’s goals from the beginning and continued to provide them with a solid design and alternative approaches for consideration. Audio Analysts Vice President of Worship and the Audio Systems Designer for JFC, Robert Langois, selected two compact self-powered main arrays consisting of six Meyer M1D curvilinear loudspeakers for stage right and left. The mains are supplemented by an additional array of two M1D cabinets to provide sidefill at stage right, where there is longer distance from the stage to the room’s side wall. Embedded into the step area below each main array is a Meyer USW-1P compact subwoofer.
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Alison Istnick is a regular contributing writer for Church Production Magazine and Worship Facilities Magazine. She can be reached at aistnick@churchproduction.com.
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