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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.

NOW THEY CAN HEAR EVERY WORD

A Maine Church Sound Renovations - Audio System Update Changes

When St. Augustine Church in  August Maine was ready to invest in a professional church audio system they called on us at Power Sound of New England.

In most ways this was a classic sound system installation and design project. We also repurposed some of the speakers from the sanctuary for use with the Hall audio system. Now both spaces have the sound quality and clarity they were seeking for the congregation

So we thought that instead of describing the new audio system, its features and benefits; we'd simply let the photos and the words of the parish priest tell the story.

"Everything is Perfect!”

We are very pleased with the new audio system in the sanctuary. It is such a pleasure to have our parishioners;  especially the older ones, comment now that they can hear every word. It’s so helpful that Power Sound was able to reuse some good equipment to help  create the clear, equal sound balance we wanted in our hall also. I’ve trusted your company at four churches now and have always had an excellent experience.
- Rev. Francis P. Morin, St. Augustine Church, Augusta, Maine

Close up: Pro-grade BOSE loudspeakers are mounted on columns.

 

Our goal is simple: to offer the best sound you'll never see!

New audio systems and sound system upgrades for houses of worship. Each is designed to fit the size and the unique characteristics of small churches, chapels, temples, cathedrals and every space in between.

Thank you to St. Augustine Church for entrusting us with your AV needs!

Boston Temple Seventh-Day Adventist Church

The best church sound you'll never see...

Boston Temple Seventh-Day Adventist Church is a historic church in Boston Massachusetts drawing thousands of worshippers since 1921. Like all churches, they need to ensure that the Presider, Lecturers and the Choir are all heard clearly.
 

Better Audio Quality For Multi- Language Worship Services

We have provided customized church sound system design for Boston Temple , for both the English language  worship services and the weekly Russian and Chinese language worship services.  We met their audiovisual objectives by paying careful attention to the challenging acoustics of the Boston church’s space  typical of many houses of worship built in the early part of the century.  As we consulted and prepared the audio system design we carefully considered the individual needs of the space including architecture; multi-language sermons, the Music Ministry and other details that make their worship environment unique. 

Aesthetics are important here as is the case for all church

spaces. The sound system provides more sound intelligibility than ever before, but also, the speakers harmonize visually with their environment. Colored to blend with the surface to which their installed, the professional-grade speakers look terrific, and offer clarity throughout the old handsome, (but reverberant) space. 

“The worship space at the church created some unique acoustical challenges. We designed & installed an audio system completely customized to meet the needs of the architecture combined with the wants for the worship experience.”   - Troy D. Jennings, G.M. PSNE

Custom Settings and “Smart Electronics”

From a softly spoken voice to a singing voice, the smart electronics continuously self-adjust providing the appropriate volume level. Custom settings offer the correct volume and projection for varied environments including large, medium or small attendance and choral presentations. Unique settings may used for changing weather environments as well. Preset and tuned to a parish chosen settings, a simple turn of a knob changes from one setting to another. One dial = easy control.

Whether a retro fit for historic spaces like Boston Temple Seventh-Day Adventist Church or sound system installations during renovation or construction at Power Sound of New England we have a senior team of tech-savvy installers who will ensure the custom system looks right, sounds glorious and performs reliably. 

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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!

Controlling church sound & music in the palm of your hand - from anywhere in the sanctuary!

Imagine your Music Director controlling your church audio and music ministry in the palm of his hand

Bethany Lutheran Church in W. Hartford, CT has better audio technology from
Power Sound of New England.
We all know what an iPad is and what it does; but did you know it can also effectively control and improve your Church Sound System?

Handheld sound control

Using an iPad (and custom software) it is simple to manually control Music Ministry voice and instruments; and to automate the Main Liturgy microphones, or not.And it can all be managed wirelessly from anywhere in the Church.

"Amazing!" We hear this a lot!

Church Sound:

Better church audio has changed the Mass experience, especially for those hard of hearing and many older parishioners. Equipment to improve the sound at this Hartford Connecticut Church shown here include Pro Bose speakers and new lectern microphone. The sound system installation was planned to address the desire for more even sound coverage from the front of the sanctuary to the back. Custom painting and hidden wiring ensure that the church sound is improved without sacrificing the interior aesthetics.

Everyone says
"Sound in the church is so much better!"

We like that. Power Sound of New England can design wireless controlled church audio systems for any size space and any layout. Among the many benefits is the freedom form being relegated to a sound booth or loft.  Another is that our technicians will program your ipad to suit the need of your choir and music ministry. We'll train you and be here to help if ever the need arises.
Now, how does that sound?

At Our Lady of Hope Parish in Ipswich Mass Sounds Better than Ever

Massachusetts Church Sound renovation project – Pro Sound for worship

Our Lady of Hope, Ipswich, MA

PSNE recently completed as church sound system design project at Our Lady of Hope Parish in Ipswich. The Church’s audio system lacked intelligibility. Power Sound of New England, specializing in professional AV installation and custom sound systems for worship, was chosen by Our Lady of Hope in Ipswich Massachusetts for the design and installation of the state-of-the-art church audio renovation. The church audio system design and AV installation project was executed to give the church rich, clear sound in the sanctuary and overflow areas.

Pro Bose speakers for churches

The Project: Pro Sound components are employed in order to address the needs of large worship spaces. We know that professional church sound equipment is an integral part of a good sound system installation. However, quality pro sound parts are just that, parts. A good design is essential to achieve the professional sound quality parishes seek. For this Massachusetts church, audio intelligibly for both the spoken word and the music is a priority.

Speaker in overflow area

Features & Benefits: During sound system installation projects, PSNE integrates the audio in each space into a master system. This allows for speakers in each room to project sound as part of the main system or the main sound system to work independently. At this church their primary goal was to have speakers in auxiliary spaces that could project sound during Services from the main church to other spaces as needed. This is an effective solution for churches that have overflow congregation in vestibule, narthex or chapel. It can also be employed to project  sound to classrooms, church offices, and even outdoors.

Speakers are colored to match brick walls

Another focus of the every AV system we design is the visual effect. Churches are beautiful! We want to be sure church audio and video components don’t diminish the visual impact of the worship space.  Understanding that the aesthetics of worship spaces must be maintained, we work to match components to the surface on which they are mounted. For example speakers are custom-colored to match with walls, ceilings or columns as part of the sound system installation. This assures the visual integrity of the worship space in preserved.

Since 1969 Power Sound of New England has provided custom church sound systems to address the unique needs of each parish. Some of these features include: Sound for the Celebrant that is clear and intelligible from the front pew to the back; Effective solutions for amplification for the Choir & Music Ministry; professional-grade electronic equipment; design and AV installation by the only New England based company that understands the AV needs of worship and specializes in church audio visual systems.

New Sound System Installation Project – Sacred Heart Church in Waltham

Form Meets Function from Power Sound of New England

Speakers blend with the church aesthetics.

Power Sound of New England recently completed a sound system installation project at Sacred Heart Church in Waltham Massachusetts. Like all parishes, quality church sound is vital. For this Catholic Church, a PA sound system renovation was needed; in fact the church sound before the renovation was described as “virtually unintelligible”. Power Sound of New England, specializing in professional pro sound systems for worship, was chosen to consult and design and install new sound system.

The Project: The pastor, Rev. Dennis J. Wheatley needed the sound for both the spoken word and the music to be addressed in the new system design. Power Sound of New England designed a church sound system tailored to the parish’s specific needs. “The Mass features a choir so pro sound quality for singing voices is important. Their Life Teen Ministry is an integral part of the parish and its Services include a band. We integrated the musical component of the Masses into the system design. We created a church sound system to improve the clarity of music and the speaking voice”, said Power Sound of New England General Manager, Troy Jennings.

Sound Scenario Selector

Features: Pro sound equipment is an integral part of the PA sound system design. One component in particular offers an important benefit is the sound scenario selector, SSR. The pa sound system plan included the installation of remote controller has presets for small or large masses, for 16 choir microphones or the music ministry equipment amplification. The right sound –every time– for speech, song and music all in one custom church sound system. The technician, specializing in audio installation to manage church acoustics, programmed the SSR for the sound scenarios at the church, ex: large Mass, small Mass, 16 choir microphones on, full band performing, etc. The result is that both clergy and music ministry get the ideal sound settings every time. Ease of use is another feature essential to churches; the SSR is simply tuned, by a one-dial selector, to the setting desired.

Speakers - close up

Another feature of the church sound system is the installation of Bose Panaray® loudspeakers. Designed expressly for the worship space environment they project sound from multiple drivers within each speaker providing even intelligible sound throughout the worship space. From the first pew to the tenth to the last the sound is heard clearly and evenly.

“We are very pleased!

Your technicians were wonderful; they answered all of our questions. The congregation is quite receptive. Now they can all hear clearly - all the way to the last pews. A big difference from the old, unintelligible sound. The system is performing very, very well.”~ Rev. Dennis J. Wheatley, O.F.M.

 

Custom church sound systems are what set PSNE apart from typical AV dealers. Working with houses of worship since 1969, we understand the challenges of church acoustics and worship styles which gives us a unique advantage to designing effective sound system solutions for worship. And working to create systems with features as individual as the needs of each church means effective, reliable results for every church, every time.

To learn more about sound systems for churches you can visit Power Sound of New England’s website: http://powersoundne.com/worshipav.html. 

New Church Audio in this completely round worship space Custom design and sound system installation from Power Sound of New England

St. Thecla Church in Pembroke Massachusetts

Church Sound that makes the Word and the Music sound better than ever

 

St. Thecla Church; Pembroke, MA

The Project: Fr. McCarthy needed clearer church sound for his congregation. The worship space in this architecturally famed Massachusetts church is completely round and features a beautiful a one piece concrete dome ceiling with a cylindrical skylight. There is an unobstructed view throughout the nave as the church was designed and built without any interior columns. Though beautiful, this creates an “incredibly live” acoustical environment so projecting clear church sound evenly throughout the space has been a challenge.  The old sound system was “muddy” and “no one could hear.” Power Sound of New England was chosen to design a custom church audio tailored to the specific needs of both the Celebrants and the Music Ministry. . The sound system installation plan was designed to provide clear intelligible church sound evenly around the radial style pews.

Totally round space featuring a dome ceiling.

Church audio clarity meets aesthetic quality:  St. Thecla, a western Massachusetts Church, with its beautiful radial sanctuary featured unobstructed views throughout, so the visual impact of the church sound system is paramount. Speakers have been colored to blend with their environment and are virtually undetectable— in fact what stands out is not the 10-foot tower speakers but the greatly improved church sound quality they project.  

Professional speakers are 10’ feet tall & just 4 “wide

A Customized Sound System for the both Word and the Choir: The sound system features settings for the liturgical style of the Celebrants as well as for controlling the sound system of the music ministry. Power Sound of New England has programmed the digital sound scenario selector to the best settings for a variety of the church’s sound scenarios. This unique church sound selector features settings to automatically compensate for softer voices or louder voices. It also features audio presets that automatically set the sound for large and small attendance, automatic seasonal changes as well as for special Masses including weddings funerals and holiday Mass celebrations. The result: Church sound that is exactly right, every time.

Selection of audio setting for any style Mass

Other notable features of the comprehensive sound system installation project include an Ipod for playing recorded music for any occasion. It has been customized with a wireless transmitter so the Celebrant can cue uprecorded music from a variety playlists from anywhere in the church. Another enhancement of the sound system is the nearly invisible “Earset” microphone. It fits over the ear and rests gently against the speaker’s cheek. A great replacement for lapel mics it projects the speaker’s voice through the sound system without any feedback or fading that is a common issue with other wireless microphones.

To learn more about sound systems for churches we invite you to visit Power Sound of New England’s website: http://powersoundne.com/worshipav.html.