What did you do this summer?

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Our summer was wonderful! We were in your back yard providing AV for your church neighbors!  Christmas is coming. Are your systems ready?

St. George Episcopal Church, York, ME

This New England church is perched on the coast of Southern Maine. The prominent worship feature of the Parish Choir and Mega Choir means sound quality and audio system flexibility is essential. 

Holy Redeemer Parish, 
West New York, NJ

The glorious St. Mary's Church located just across the Hudson River form Manhattan wanted to reach more parishioners more of the time. They asked Power sound of New England to design a Video System. Video Cameras are in place to record Services for display on flat-screen monitors in overflow area. And a Live Video Streaming system was put in place. Now Masses are available to everyone via a link on the parish website.Live Streams can be viewed here: St. Mary's Church Live Streaming

Unitarian Memorial Church, 
Fair Haven, MA

Located on the southernmost coast of Massachusetts, the eleven bells in its tower sing out a recognized tune.The ornate architecture speaks of the beauty of this church. But inside it causes the well-known acoustical challenges faced by most churches.
A customized audio design and sound system installation project have brought the aesthetic and acoustics into total harmony.

Follen Community Church, 
Lexington, MA

This classic New England church is located in the Boston suburbs. An older church sound system was replaced by a professional audio system featuring a Pro Bose® speaker system. Monitor speakers in the choir loft and small-space speakers in the foyer offer sound to areas beyond the pews. New Bose Panaray speakers, designed for worship spaces project clear, intelligible sound throughout the sanctuary.


St. Pete Chanel Parish, 
Van Buren, ME

Located in northern Maine close to the border of Canada, St. Bruno-St. Remi Church- This historic church needed a sound system renovation. Masses are held in English and in French languages and sound clarity must be ideal for both. Professional Bose loudspeakers are column-mounted and the system is designed to project clear speech and music throughout the large nave.

St. Mary Church,
Nantucket Island

The island church has trusted PSNE with sound system design & installation and more recently a video projection project. This summer they chose to add Live Video Streaming of their Masses. No one on the island or back on the mainland will ever need miss the worship. Their stream is programmed to be "live" during Masses. Watch it weekdays at 7:30 am or during weekend Masses here on their website.

At Power Sound of New England, we consider all of New England and Eastern New York & New Jersey our backyard. We're closer than you think. Check us out! PSNE

Church Sound, Church Video: Were the new age meets history

I. Video Projection Systems: First Baptist Church of Paris in South Paris, Maine wanted to add video projection to their historic church. They were very concerned about maintaining the aesthetics of the space.  A motorized retractable projection screen is a highlight. The way it disappears when the screen is not needed is exactly what they wanted! We integrated the video projector and computer for a variety of kinds of presentations. 

II. A church sound system upgrade was also done as part of the AV system design and installation project. A Highlight: New Pro Bose® speakers, designed for the church environment, offer greatly improved sound quality and intelligibility. Speakers were carefully mounted adjacent to window casings and painted to match. The result is the vastly improved sound they needed and the discreet appearance they wanted. 

South Paris Maine is a quaint village and First Baptist Church of Paris is an important piece of the fabric of the community. One of the facets of this project that stood out for us was the focus of upgrading technology, not just for the congregation, but also for the community of South Paris.  This is best explained in the words of the Pastor…

"Beautiful sound!"

The quality of sound has truly impressed me; NO comparison to the old system. And the video projection performs beautifully also. You had such sensitive concern for our historic structure. Your crew collaborated with our electrician to preserve visual authenticity. There are some new wires your crew actually had to point out to me— it is just amazing! Even the placement of jacks in the aisles is discreet, so during weddings they won’t show in photographs. I am especially grateful for your approach of “we’re putting it in now” but we will “follow up in a few weeks to ensure you are comfortable with the system.” We have really benefited from this. And, the project came in on budget.

Our new audio visual capabilities allow us the ability to offer our church for local groups’ use for a broader range of community events and concerts. Prior to choosing PSNE we called some other ministers of historic churches and they were very complimentary. This cemented our decision to entrust this project to your company.  - Pastor Mary Beth Caffey, First Baptist Church of Paris

Read more about more of the benefits of church sound in Maine churches and beyond. 

How’s the sound in your church? How about the classrooms, Sunday school, community hall, offices, or nursery? Perhaps your congregation and staff want and need much clearer, much more intelligible sound? We can help identify and solve the audio challenges for your church. To learn about today’s church sound solutions, visit our website to read about audio visual systems for worship.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

How were the holidays for your congregation? Did your church. . .

Sound good?
Look good?

For professional sound and video updates or maintenance, Power Sound of New England is the name thousands of churches have trusted since 1969.
    We’ve been there
When you needed church sound system “tune ups” or new church audio and video projection systems.
     We’ll be there
Whenever you need us.
Anytime. Every time!




If your sound system or video projection is not performing the way it should, let us design a solution tailored especially for your church. Our sound system designs can solve issues such as poor sound coverage, dead spaces, feedback noise, lack of audio clarity, and many other issues related to church P.A. systems.

Since 1969 we have tamed the most challenging acoustics in churches from Boston, to Worcester and Springfield out to Albany and here at home in Maine. Our church video projection, church sound systems, and full service turn-key audio visual system renovations are customized to fit the needs of the smallest chapel to the largest cathedral.

Your house of worship is unique.
So are our sound systems.
Learn more at our website.

Macedonia Baptist Church - New Video Technology 
+ Live Streaming 
= More Engaging Worship

New State-of-the-Art Video technology | Macedonia Baptist Church, Albany, NY

Macedonia Baptist Church Chose Power Sound and Video of N.E. for their AV Project

This project is one that feature some of the most state-of-art technology avaible today to churches.

We thought, instead of a detailed description of this major retrofit video project, we'd just let the words from the church tell the story.

The AV crew working their magic during worship services.

When asked about the results the AV Ministry chair shared some descriptive feedback...

Exciting Process!
“Everyone loves the results! Pastor Comithier is receiving positive feedback from the congregation and other
pastors about the aesthetic quality and the performance of the video system…”

One of several cameras integrated into the PSNE Video System.

“One of the greatest motivators in choosing PSNE was that the company specializes in

retrofitting Audio Visual Systems for church spaces…”

Balcony camera

Our Audio & Video Technology:
State-of-the-art 

Audio Systems,
Video Projection Systems,

Live Streaming of your Services
to the internet
…
For grand-scale retro fits like here,
at Macedonia Baptist Church,
 to more modest,
custom audiovisual solutions at smaller churches,
our church systems are always designed 

to fit your needs
and your church’s budget.

Power Sound and Video Design Specialist, Troy Jennings
with AV Ministry Chair, Dr. Jennifer G. Sneed.

"The design is really  beautiful and maintained the aesthetic and structural integrity of the  sanctuary. The entire Power Sound team was great. They rolled with our questions, changes and modifications. The bar is so high now that everyone has gotten ‘spoiled’ by video projection being part of our worship services. Now, when we don’t use video during services, we get asked, ‘Why isn’t there anything on the screens?’ It was a greatprocess— we ended up with  exactly what we needed."  
- Dr. Jennifer G. Sneed, AV Ministry Chair



We are most grateful to Macedonia Baptist Church...this project was as exciting for us as it was for them. More so, perhaps, as we were able to stretch our AV legs and really dig in to some very high-tech audio technology and church video projection.

To learn more about our audio and video solutions, you can visit our website:
PowersoundNE.com

Beautiful Video Solutions for Exeter NH's Congregational Church

The Congregational Church in Exeter, New Hampshire

At this handsome congregational church in the heart of Exeter New Hampshire, the clergy and staff wanted a vehicle for display scripture and hymn lyrics for the congregation. They also wanted to be able to offer lyrics to songs onscreen. Video projection solved this beautifully. Worship software presentations these as well as religious imagery, and event information onto retractable a projection screen is highly effective for the parish. The church video projection provides education, outreach and, most importantly, worship enhancement. Equally important for this beautiful church’s sanctuary space is that the video projection system installation is tasteful and does not detract from the classic architectural features of the sanctuary.

Better Communication with Video Projection

Video Projection is becoming an integral element of the worship service. Discovered by many clergy to be an invaluable tool, video improves the way messages are communicated. Vivid displays are inviting but also beneficial, especially to those seated in more distant pews. And, enlarged text, lyrics and images assist visually challenged parishioners.

"The result is perfect!"

Your team really knew what they were doing! The installation is beautiful. We have received very positive  responses from our congregation about the wonderful   sound quality and we are excited about the extensive  capabilities of the video projection system. - Don Erdbrink, Praise Choir Director, The Congregational Church in Exeter, NH

Technically Speaking

The video projector was column mounted to design specifications for optimum projection. The mount blends seamlessly with the ornate wooden molding. The sleek lines are visually quiet to the eye. The retractable projection screen offers high performance and tough duty. It offers long lasting reliability and attractive design. Highly functional it retracts quickly and quietly with the push of a button into a casing that is colorized to match the interior environment.

Church video projection was only part of the undertaking for this New Hampshire church. They also invested in a custom audio system for the sanctuary.

In our next post we’ll talk about the audio renovation aspect of the comprehensive project. Read more about worship video projections solutions on the Power Sound of New England website.

New Video Projection System for Faith Baptist Church in Kittery, Maine

 “I will highly recommend Power Sound!”
Troy was great to work with; professional and tremendously helpful. Trust is important to me and I found Troy and all of the staff at PSNE to be completely trustworthy!  

He didn’t ‘sell, sell, sell,’ he educated and advised us so we’d understand our options 

for both sound and video solutions. He really bent over backwards to deliver 

the best possible fit for our church.
- Pastor Justin Kauffman, First Baptist Church; Kittery, Maine

The small classic New style church was ready to offer video projection technology to the congregation. They also wanted to upgrade the church audio.

Ironically this church is less than 2 miles from our offices. We serve all of New England and out to greater Albany, as far north as the Maine-Canada border and even design and install sound and video on islands including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. So, this makes Kittery Faith Baptist the closest church, by far, we have ever had the pleasure of providing custom sound or video projection to.

The church video system has been designed relative to the size of the sanctuary. A retractable screen (see left) is large enough for clear viewing throughout the sanctuary. A celing mounted projector is installed to offer optimal projection with minimally invasive visual characteristics. In fact, it's hard to discern it in the sanctuary photo. Their laptop offers them the flexibility to user worship software, power point presentations, dvds and other programs allowing them freedom to learn and expand how they utilize the video projection over time.

The church audio system employs some state-of-the-art technology.  Software designed to control the music mixer is programmed on an tablet (ipad) computer. This allows for total freedom for the user. Whether the music minister, staff member or clergy member; they can control the music from anywhere in the sanctuary, completely wirelessly.

This little church has scaled-to-size big tools to help bring technology to the congregation.
We are so thankful that Pastor Kauffman entrusted with this important audio visual system design project. And we are appreciative of his kind words about our work!

St. Augustine’s Church on Martha’s Vineyard

Good Shepherd Parish trusts Power Sound of with all their AV needs

 

The Projects – I. Audio Visual Systems: St. Augustine’s Church on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts needed to replace their church sound. The parish has entrusted Power Sound if New England with the church audio renovations at their two other island churches so naturally, Fr. Michael Nagle called on us again for this project.

II. The other facet of the audiovisual system brings a visual component to the worship. The parish wanted to bring video projection to the Mass as they had done at another island church, Our Lady Star of the Sea. A Church Video Projection System was custom designed to meet their needs.  Two motorized retractable 12-foot projections screens are a beautiful feature. Mounted on wall surface of two colors we then painted to match they blend nicely and have no negative impact on interior aesthetics. Retracted projection screens simply tuck away when not in use. We integrated two video projectors and a camera with their computers for a variety of kinds of presentations. Planning ahead we also did preparation for live video streaming to be introduced in a later phase of the project for the church.

Features of PSNE-designed Church Video Projection:
• Single or dual screen systems tailored to your worship space.
• Eliminate traditional hymn books with on-screen lyrics.
• Live streaming can project to overflow areas, or to your website.
• Present visuals of weddings, christenings and memorials.
• Project Altar activities to Classroom, Hall...anywhere!
  

“Very Engaging!”
"For pastors: If you’ve never used it  during worship, you don’t know what you missing. Once you’ve used it you can’t imagine what you’d do without it. Video projection enhances participation; everyone is drawn deeper in the experience of the liturgy. Now when we don’t use it, the congregation really misses it!”     ~ Rev. Michael R. Nagle, Martha’s Vineyard

Pro Church Sound Solutions:
• Tailored to individual space acoustics.
• Offers clear, intelligible sound for sanctuary, hall, or classroom.

For New Systems or Upgrades:
Custom AV solutions give you the tools to use technology to reach more people more ways.

Below are some photos of the project. In our next blog post we’ll write about the newest feature of the audio visual system at St. Augustine: Live streaming video. Now the Mass can be viewed from anywhere in the world.

Dual screens, projectors and new speakers

Video projection in the parish hall.

 

St. Andrew the Apostle in Worcester MA; New Church Video Projection, Deeper Understanding

Supporting Multilingual Congregation with Church Video Projection

Dual projection screens at St. Andrew the Apostle

 “We definitely love it!” said the kind staff when asked how they were enjoying the new church video system at St. Andrew the Apostle. 

Screen, projector & new church speaker.

The Projects – I. Audio Visual Systems: St. Andrew the Apostle in Worcester Massachusetts wanted to add video projection to the Mass. A custom Church Video Projection system was designed by Power Sound of New England.  Two motorized retractable 12-foot projections screens are the highlight! We integrated the video projector with both cameras and computers for a variety of kinds of presentations. II. A church sound system upgrade was also done as part of the AV system design and installation project.

Church Video – The primary goal for video projection: St. Andrew the Apostle was seeking a way to assist the multilingual congregation with hymn lyrics. The African Ministry at the parish has parishioners speaking Swahili, the Burundi language of Rundi, and English. Hymn translations projected from a computer onto the large format projections screens answered the call. Now the parish has expanded their use of the system for English speaking Masses as well. Ideal for displaying church news, religious imagery, photographs of events, and more; church video systems are a effective addition to extending the reach of worship.

Beyond the walls – A congregation exists far beyond the walls of the sanctuary. With live steaming for websites video projection can deliver Services and Mass anywhere, in real time.

PSNE spoke of the growing need of houses of worship to better support multilingual congregations, “We are often called upon to design custom video projection systems for churches with congregations made up of worshipers speaking many languages. Providing translations of hymn lyrics and church messages is easier than ever with video projection.”

Read more about more of the benefits of video projection.

Cameras capture Altar activity to project onto screens

Cameras - We integrated the parish’s existing cameras into the new audio visual system. This offers the church the ability to use the church video system by utilizing cameras to record altar activities. This feature of video projection at churches is ideal for projecting wedding ceremonies, baptisms and other special altar services onto screens for large-format viewing. It can always be used to manage overflow attendance in spaces including community halls, the foyer or narthex, a mother’s room, or anywhere.

Churches are benefiting from video systems outside of weekend Masses or Worship Services. Used often for the presentation of films for religious education or family-friendly entertainment video projection may be controlled from different chosen locations at St. Andrew the Apostle including the loft or in the sanctuary from a windows-based laptop computer, Mac-based ipad or iphone.

Church Sound – As part of the AV installation PSNE retrofitted the church audio system. A Highlight: New Pro Bose® speakers, designed for the church environment, offer greatly improved sound quality and intelligibility. 

How’s the sound in your church? How about the Sunday school, community hall, classrooms, or nursery? Perhaps your congregation and staff want and need much clearer, much more intelligible sound? We can help identify and solve the audio challenges for your church. To learn about today’s church sound solutions, visit our website to read about audio visual systems for worship.