Church Video and New AV Installation at a Boston area Church from Power Sound of New England

Video Solution for Overflow, Security and More Visual Bulletins!

St. Mary Parish; Chelmsford MA

 Power Sound of New England recently completed a Church Video design and AV installation project at St. Mary Parish. The Massachusetts church video projection project is part of a series of audio visual systems’ upgrades the parish has undertaken to continue to employ AV tools to enhance the worship. Power Sound of New England, specializing in professional pro sound and video systems for worship, has been chosen and trusted by St. Mary for the design and AV installation projects for many years.

Mass may be viewed from the Parish Hall

 The Projects: Church Video Projection. Most importantly, the clergy and staff at the church wanted to project Mass to overflow areas including the parish hall and chapel space. Church Security: They also wanted secure way to keep the church open to the congregation with out compromising security. Church video cameras integrated into a digital video camera recording system designed by Power Sound of  New England effectively answered the call.

 

 Thank you to Fr. Stephen and St. Mary Parish for again entrusting us with your parish’s AV needs. We are pleased to bring the newest church technology —of a PSNE Digital Bulletin 

system—into your worship~ Troy D. Jennings; PSNE

Services can be seen and heard with monitors

Video Projection Features: Overflow Solution! Video recording of Masses is the focus of the video projection for the church. A camera, mounted in the choir loft records Masses and activity at the altar. The video is projected live to high-definition monitors in the chapel and narthex. The chapel, which features a glass wall of windows looking in the sanctuary space, can be used for overflow congregation or as a mother’s room for managing fidgety babies. The church video can always be relayed to the projector mounted in the parish hall and displayed on the large format projection screen. The parish hall system can also function independently for religious education, films, or other presentations.

Cameras monitor 4 areas for security

Church security: Another feature of the custom audio visual system designed by Power Sound of New England is a camera and digital video recorder that provides church video security. The system offers ways to record entrances and sensitive areas. With monitors installed in offices the parish staff can monitor any of the areas, including the sanctuary, Tabernacle, office entrance, and parking lot as needed.

  
I’ve worked with Troy and Julius for more than 14 years at two different parishes. Their work is always great. The video projection system they designed offers us the flexibility to project Masses in the vestibule, children’s prayer room and onto a large format screen in our parish hall. The video quality is exceptional! Planning for the future, we chose to have a camera security system added during the video project. Power Sound is the company we choose for all our parish AV needs.     ~ Paul Firicano, Business Manager; St. Mary Parish

NEW- PSNE Digital Bulletin: Coming to a parish near you! Or…maybe even your parish In addition the church video systems talked about here, St. Mary Parish also had PSNE design a custom PSNE “Digital Bulletin”. Now there’s way to use attention grabbing visual displays to project up to date images and video; including the weekly bulletin, parish news, event announcements and even advertisements.

The PSNE Digital Bulletin. In our next blog post we’ll tell you all about it. Can’t wait? Call us at 800.544.0108 today and ask Troy Jennings to talk with you about how it can broaden the way you communicate to your congregation.

Church video projection is one of the most versatile AV solutions available to parishes. At PSNE we have had the privilege of designing custom video systems that offer ways to communicate and deepen the connection to worship.

To learn more about video projection and other custom audio visual systems for worship you can visit Power Sound of New England’s website: http://powersoundne.com/worshipav. Or, read more at their blog site or on Facebook. 

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. 

St. Agnes Parish in Dalton MA; Illuminating New Mass Translations with Church Video

Beautiful new Church video and a new sound and video projection system for to the parish academy

St. Agnes Parish; Dalton MA

“We love it!” “Every seat in the church can see the screens…We will be using our video projection at every Mass!” said Fr Chris Malatesta when asked about the new video system at his parish.

The Projects - Audio Visual Systems: First, Fr. Chris at St. Agnes Parish in Dalton Massachusetts wanted to add video projection to the Mass for his congregation.  A custom PSNE Church Video system designed by Power Sound of New England featuring an AV installation of two motorized 12-foot projections screens answered the call. The Massachusetts church video projections system can utilize computers set up in multiple locations to operate the church video presentations. At the Academy, the parish wanted a pro sound system combined with video projection for their cafetorium.

 Goals for video projection: St. Agnes was seeking a vivid way for the congregation to see the liturgy, hymns and other visuals. And, most importantly, they wanted a way to highlight the new Mass Translations. 

The new Mass Translations, religious imagery, hymns, and bulletins can be

prominently displayed on two large screens.

  “One of the most important roles of the video projection will be for the new Mass Translations. Instead of relying solely on hand–held pew cards the congregation can lift their faces, and the voices, to the altar as they say the prayers.” ~ Fr. Chris Malatesta: St. Agnes Parish, Dalton MA

Angled large-format screens provide 

beautiful views from every pew.

Church Video – After analyzing the sanctuary Power Sound of New England designed an audio visual system tailored to the unique characteristics of the space. Very high wooden ceilings with structural beams and a wide sanctuary presented some interesting challenges. The solution: Two screens mounted at angles from the beams. This ensures clear viewing cross church video viewing from all pews. The high contrast screens offer front projection capabilities. The projectors were ceiling-mounted on rods and hung parallel to the chandeliers in order to preserve aesthetics while insuring the AV installation best accommodated the technical design specs of the video projection system. The AV installation of the projections screens required a bucket loader– not for the faint of heart!  

Video Presentations may be controlled from different chosen locations at St Agnes including the front of the sanctuary from a laptop computer or their AV room in the loft.

Screen casings match the ceiling.

Cameras: Power Sound of New England integrated the parish’s existing cameras into the new audio visual system. This gives the parish the ability to use the church video system by employing the in-house cameras to record the sanctuary 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. The church video system can use the cameras to transmit video to their local cable company to broadcast over the public access channel.

The Academy; Pro Sound and Video – An AV installation at the parish academy was customized for the school’s multi-use space, the gym/cafetorium. Because the parish wanted reliable sound and video quality, Power Sound of New England designed a pro sound and video projection system that allows for myriad presentations including music, speaking and performance.

St Agnes Parish now has the audio visual system solutions that answer the call of their many video system goals. Fr Chris is very happy. He spoke of the parish’s new systems and working with PSNE by saying, “We chose Power Sound after consulting with other A/V companies— and even trying portable systems. After meeting with Troy we knew; Power Sound had an exceptional sense of our worship needs combined with technical savvy. Maintaining church aesthetics was incredibly important to us We had no need to worry; after installation prior to first use I actually had to point them out to parishioners who had not noticed the new equipment. They blended nicely. Very attractive.” At Power Sound, that is music to our ears!

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