Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church – San Dimas, CA


Architect: JVC Associates, Las Vegas, NV Jim Van Compernolle, AIA, President
General Contractor: Turner Construction, Special Projects
Acoustical Consultant: Dohn and Associates, Morro Bay, CA
Sound System Design, Installation and Programming: AMT Systems Inc.

Description of project

Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church is located in San Dimas, California. The soaring architectural design provides a quiet spaciousness appropriate for the worship space, with large clerestory windows and semi-circular seating sloping from the Narthex to the altar platform.

AMT Systems designed and installed an primary speaker cluster and a delay speaker ring to provide even coverage of the large main seating area. Cry room, Narthex, and interior cloistered walkways are covered by distributed ceiling and surface mounted speakers. An AMX touchscreen system is programmed with presets controlling both the hard-wired and wireless microphones providing spoken word reinforcement and a separate multi-channel mixer that serves the various musical ensembles in the choir area.

In-ground and Community Wet series outdoor speakers provide coverage of the entrance gathering space, and the system allows sound from church services to be heard in this area, or this outdoor system can be used separately from outdoor mic inputs. As the planned Parish Hall and Admin buildings are completed at a future date, this gathering space speaker system is designed to expand to cover the entries to these buildings as well as to an outdoor labyrinth meditation walkway.