MEDAK
CATHEDRAL, TELANGANA. INDIA-By Apocalypse Acoustics Inc-2016.
Engrossing the congregation in order to
make services and speech relevant and attentive is a challenge for all houses
of worship. If the worshipers can’t understand what’s being said, the message
is lost. Therefore the ability to provide good sound reinforcement is
essential, and this begins at the input stage. Discerning this, Cathedral of MEDAK
relied on BOSE Professional for its Audio upgradation.
Presbyter Incharge of CATHEDRAL
PASTORATE of MEDAK, Rev. Robinson, has many responsibilities within the church,
including serving as the Main Presbyter, training the assistant presbyters,
understanding the importance of worship, raising up volunteers, maintaining the
church’s audio arsenal, and overseeing purchases.
Medak Cathedral at Medak in Telangana, India, is the largest church in Telangana
and has been the cathedral church of the Diocese of Medak of the Church of South
India
since 1947. Originally built by British Wesleyan Methodists, it was consecrated
on 25 December 1924. The Medak diocese is the single largest diocese in Asia and the second in the world after
the Vatican.
This cathedral was
built under the stewardship of Reverend Charls Walker Posnett who was driven by
the motto my best for my Lord. Rev. Posnett arrived in Secunderabad in 1895. He
first ministered among the British soldiers at Trimullghery. Unsatisfied with
the army work, he launched forth into villages. In the year 1896, Rev. Charles
Walker Posnett visited a village called Medak and built a bungalow there by
staying in dock bungalow.
The cathedral is
100 ft (30 m) wide and 200 ft (61 m) long, and conforms to
the Gothic Revival style. It can accommodate about 5,000 people at a time. The
mosaic tiles were imported from Britain and are of six different colours. Italian
masons from Bombay were engaged for laying the decorative flooring. Massive
pillars built with fine-hewn and well dressed grey stone support the gallery
and the whole edifice. The roof of the church is made sound-proof by means of
hollow sponge material, and has an impressive style of vaulting, with a
Measured RT of 0.66. The surface of the vaulting has the shape of squares. The
bell-tower is 175 ft (53 m) high. (It is said that when the Nizam of
Hyderabad discovered that the church would be higher than the Charminar, he
made a vain bid to have its height reduced.
The roof has been
cast to ensure best acoustics and sound proof made by hollow sponge material to
have an impressive style of vaulting. With its immensity and beauty, this
century old church stands out as one of the finest examples of Gothic
architecture in India.
Medak Cathedral is a
multi-generational, multi-ethnic, traditional Anglican Protestant Christian church,’ he
explained. Our services are Anglican and multi-sensory. We utilize the
Anglican traditional style of service including instruments and big choir. It
is essential that all speech, dialogue, music and vocal performances reach the
congregation with a high level of speech intelligibility for singing, a
natural, musical sound quality. To achieve this, we depended on BOSE AUDIO
SOLUTION.
The audio system design involved a total of Eight MA 12 vertical line array System deployed at FOH in a L-R configuration with 4 cabinets on either side on the Main Pillars, supporting the main speakers we configured the inner fill using six BOSE DS 100 SE’s and the upper and altar fills with eight BOSE DS 40 SE’s cabinets on either side of the cathedral. Control would be provided from a single Bose Control Space ESP-4120 engineered sound processor in an open-architecture DSP with 4x12 fixed analog audio connected through a Behringer SX 3242 FX mixing console, while microphones from AKG Perception Dual wireless, D5 Wired, CGN Goosenecks and Groove Instrument series completed the design. For the monitors BEHRINGER B415 Active which are run through a DBX 231S-Dual Band Analogue Graphic Equalizer to Cut the Lower Frequency and maintain the audio quality without howling and ringing.
We formulated and developed this system design keeping in mind the various points that members of the church committee had discussed with us during our meetings,’ recalled Mr. Anil Noel Flemming, Lead Project Designer and Consultant-Apocalypse Acoustic Sciences Corp. ‘With all the details in place, we figured that the BOSE Solution with MA Vertical Line Arrays would be the better fit for the audio upgradation project, keeping in mind its compact structure, aesthetically pleasing appearance and of course its performance, all in an easy to use and maintain bundle. And advancing on the fundamental of “easy to use”, the Behringer SX 3242 FX analogue console fits perfectly into the mix with the best in class sound processor for complete control and clarity.
For More comprehensible insights or clarifications on this project please call Mr. Noel Flemming at +919395333255 or mail him at flemming@consultant.com
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