The Golden Isles Church of God serves the greater community of Brunswick, Georgia, and outlying barrier islands. Its traditional styling is mid-sized sanctuary, with hardwood pews, high lofty ceilings and a raised central dais that conspire to compromise the speech intelligibility of events and services.

To better serve the congregation’s evolving worship needs, the church recently completed a modernisation of the sanctuary’s decor and functionality, calling on Renkus-Heinz to help tame the acoustics of the space.

Brian Bush, co-owner of All Seasons Audio, redesigned and retrofit the sanctuary’s audio system with the support of Richard Hembree of Griffith Sales Associates.

‘The old audio system didn’t cover the room evenly, but we had to reuse the original loudspeaker mounting points due to limited access above the ceiling,’ Bush says. ‘To help overcome the layout limitations, we recommended Renkus-Heinz loudspeakers for their acoustic performance.’

All Seasons Audio used a centre array of four Renkus-Heinz Varia VX101 loudspeakers, with individual VX101s for side fill and choir monitor. With a range of vertical and horizontal dispersion angles and Renkus-Heinz’s Tuned Conic Diverter WaveGuides, Varia’s highly configurable enclosures and hardware made it easy to custom design an array for the sanctuary.

Rounding out the system are two DRS18-2subwoofers and two TX82 point source loudspeakers, used as floor wedges next to the pulpit. The TX82 is a compact, dual 8-inch Complex Conic for use in applications where small size, consistent directivity and sonic performance are required.

‘The Varia line arrays were the perfect solution for Golden Isles’ sanctuary,’ Bush reports. ‘The wide range of vertical and horizontal dispersion angles they support made it easy for us to design a custom solution that could be mounted from the original hang points and fill the space with great audio everywhere.’