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Peter Claver Catholic Church 
Architect:
Young, Garau, and Tucker, Architects Dan Young
Consultant:
AMT Systems Inc.
Installation:
AMT Systems Inc.
Programming:
AMT Systems Inc.
Description
of Project:
St.
Peter Claver Catholic Church is located in Simi Valley,
California. The design pays homage to the history of the
California Missions, with large wooden rough-hewn entry
doors, tile paver floors, open beams, and windows set into
deep recesses to create a sense of thick mission-style walls.
This
church building features transept and nave seating that
is nearly equal, a children’s area not isolated behind
glass but rather acoustically isolated within a low ceiling
area at the side of the nave, and a large narthex with a
free-standing baptistry font.
The
open beam ceiling created a challenge for speaker placement
to provide even coverage of the space, and AMT used both
a primary cluster and delay speaker ring to resolve this
issue. Hard-wired and wireless microphones provide spoken
word reinforcement for the liturgy, while a separate multi-channel
mixer and local floor monitor system serves the music groups
in the choir area by providing them access to controls to
adjust for vocal blend and instrument reinforcement through
the main system..
A
large gathering space outside the building has been equipped
with connectors for microphones and portable speakers to
be added to the system when celebrations require sound reinforcement
in this area.
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