Adamson Speakers Debut at a Honduras House of Worship

CEAD (Centro Evangelista de las Asambleas de Dios/Evangelistic Center of the Assemblies of God), based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, recently decided to upgrade its sound system. Given the limited funds available, the church's staff was concerned about the budget of the installation. They also wanted to find a solution for the large amount of old speakers they had installed previously, and as a result it found a home currently a mobile system used outside the church's premises.

Daniel Fernandez, contract technical support at Adamson Latin American distributor All Music, coordinated directly with CEAD's lead technician Fausto Bourdet to come up with a working, affordable design. The new rig is comprised of two arrays each made up of two SpekTrix 5° enclosures with two SpekTrix W 15° underhang for the main left and right arrays, one center array of three SpekTrix with three SpekTrix W units, and two separate clusters of two SpekTrix Subs in each to complete the flown mains. The splay in the arrays had to be calculated carefully using Adamson's proprietary Shooter software in order to achieve coverage to the very far seats in the upper area and as much as possible under the balcony area, where the Point 8s would take over when needed. The main array design also had to consider a large glass railing spanning across the entire upper area, as the reflective surface bounces a lot of sound back to the stage. Five Point 8s are used as lip and front fills, with five more used fill under balcony. Because the church's pastor was concerned about the stage's sound pressure and quality of the monitor system, six M212 units were chosen.

Eight Lab.gruppen FP+ Series 10000Qs and a single FP7000 power all the speaker cabinets. The signal distribution and processing is performed by the XT -- one DP448 controls the L/R Spektrix mains -- while a second DP448 drives the SpekTrix center cluster, the front fills, and the under balcony fills. A third processor drives the monitor system where three monitor mixes of two M212s each are used. At present, the monitor system uses analog graphic equalizers with minimal adjustment.

Many volunteers helped during the installation; a great deal of wiring had to be run to the amp room, which is located far from the main area. In order to have more control and keep the amps under constant monitoring; a NomadLink network remote system from Lab.gruppen will be installed in the coming weeks.

When the system was turned on, everyone's first impression was the clarity and SPL provided by the SpekTrix arrays. There are still improvements to be made behind some columns under the balcony, and a few more Point Series enclosures will be added in the near future to reinforce these specific dead spots.

The church is planning to build a very large new site, which would be capable of holding approximately 12,000 worshippers. All Music will provide all the equipment and support needed for the upcoming expansion as well.