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Too many boring boardrooms and endless service calls this year; finally got another "show" system to do, this time in a 17th-century Episcopalian church in Rye, NY. And the consultant is a good friend of mine who used to work with my co. No dumb mistakes this time- he's good.
Here's some highlights of the walk-through; I'll be posting more as the work commences in December....

The place is in good shape considering its age, but i understand there was a fire in the 1800s and much of it was rebuilt. They recently got a landmark grant and are making many more improvements, including a new PA and a video system for recording events and providing "spillover" monitoring. I'm a very happily lapsed Catholic myself, but I love old churches.



Basically we're replacing the well-done but cheesy Realistic stuff with a modest Tannoy line array and EAW delays; new mics for choir, altar, pulpit, and organ, and state-of-the-art processing.




Fortunately, the church's technical guy is very knowledgeable, and he's also tapped an electrical contractor familiar with the building to do the really hard stuff: pulling the new cable thru this ancient, delicate structure. They've already made tape marks... one of the line arrays will hang here, with a safety slung thru the crook of that arch. Yay... rigging!!




Some very nice decorative touches here...

Looks like a fun job to have to do this time. What time limit do you have on it?

That's a nice looking building. Like you I love these old churches. We have a lot of much older ones around here going back to Saxon times.

PS. This is the parish church at Sompting where I lived for many happy years after I was married. http://www.bn15.co.uk/history/stmary.html I don't think has much in the way of a sound system or anything else for that matter.
The church is right next door to Sompting Peveril, home of the late George Miles the aircraft designer. I have no idea of the significance of the name Peveril.

Looks like a fun job to have to do this time. What time limit do you have on it?

Two or three weeks; something like that, with at least two of us working on it after the electricians have done their thing. Shouldn't be a problem, as there's not much at all going on in there except on Sundays (duh). That's another problem with the office installs- either have to work after hours, or they're kicking you out at 5 pm...
We're also installing a big plasma and 7.1 surround system in the choir room, also for spillover and so they can show films... a far cry from the typical church movie night with 16mm projector and crappy speaker!

That's a nice looking building. Like you I love these old churches. We have a lot of much older ones around here going back to Saxon times.

PS. This is the parish church at Sompting where I lived for many happy years after I was married. http://www.bn15.co.uk/history/stmary.html I don't think has much in the way of a sound system or anything else for that matter.

Wow... that's really sompting (sorry; couldn't resist). It is kind of silly to be putting a PA in a room that is so acoustically beautiful... those old-time designers and builders usually did a great job of providing warm, articulate sound with nothing but their ears and common sense- and of course the priests and choirs knew how to project back then!  But the recording side of things will really improve their ability to document weddings, baptisms, etc.

The church is right next door to Sompting Peveril, home of the late George Miles the aircraft designer. I have no idea of the significance of the name Peveril.

Hm...sounds French (Norman?)

That is a beautiful building

looks like a lot of fun..