Churches have one of two types of sound systems. One type of system competes with a room —undermining the worship service. Feedback, deadspots, distortion and poor intelligibility are unwanted sound effects that church audiences shouldn't be assaulted with. These systems are designed and installed with good intentions and there are many variations of them.
The other type of sound system is one that compliments the room and there are many variations of them too. However, when a church has room problems, no sound system can function beyond the performance of the worship space.  Sadly, many churches are replacing well designed sound systems with the latest and greatest technology in hopes the next sound system will be better - only to be disappointed after the novelty wears out.  
Good sound in a church requires a foundation and that foundation begins with acoustics.  Ignoring acoustics condemns every sound system to a life of mediocrity and constant upgrading that often costs much more than the cost of fixing the room.  According to statistics, over 85% of churches have 3 or more major acoustical problems.  New churches are not doing any better. Many people are buying into a myth that suggests that fixing the room latter is cheaper or better.
If your having problems with hearing or you are not enjoying your worship services, you have come to the right place.  Isn’t it time to get your church out of the sound rut?

• Complete Church Sound System Designing
• System Equalization and DSP programming
• Complete Church Acoustics
• New Sanctuary Designing
• Acoustical Measurements Test
• Complete Computerized Audio Testing
• Evaluations of Architectural Blue Prints
• Evaluations of Sound System Proposals
• Noise Control of Worship Spaces
• Installation Supervision
• HVAC system design assessments
• Sound System Training

• JdB Sound Acoustics does not sell audio equipment, acoustical panels or do installations.
• Working exclusively with Churches and Providing sound system and acoustical services since 1981 at over 500 churches.

• The average Church buys four sound systems. The first sound system is often installed by the lowest bidder when a church is built.
• The second system is often installed by the local "Expert", who is often a sincere, hard working and a well meaning church member who is an audio hobbyist (with the books and with the purest of intentions,) or from a local music or electronics store.
• The third sound system is often designed, engineered and installed by a professional audio company who does all types of sound systems, earning the title of "audio expert".
• The fourth and final system is the system that becomes the permanent system that will not be redesigned ever again. This system will last the life time of the church building and will have equipment upgrades as equipment fails due to age, wear and tear or as the ministry expands.
• These final systems are designed and installed by the few who have a true understanding of the peculiar audio and acoustical needs of a church. These people go to great lengths to educate the members of the church before a proposal is even submitted.

JdB Sound Acoustics has a Mobile Testing Lab. The Lab has all of the equipment to do detailed and accurate acoustical and sound system testing. Since the lab is also living quarters for the crew we can stay on site longer, take more time to interview people and have time to test to see if our recommendations will work before we leave. When you get your report, you will get answers that are backed up with with our special on site testing techniques. We don't leave until we have verifiable answers to your problems. This service is available only to churches and their associated facilities.

Montreal ____________________________Sherbrooke

The lab is equipped with:
--- a portable MLSSA Audio and Acoustical Test System,
--- Smaart acoustical and audio testing program
--- Smaart Live for sound system tuning and processor setups.
--- Tannoy Reference Test Speaker,
--- Brüel & Kjær test microphones and
--- Symetrix Pre Amps
--- ready to test any church up to 2 million cubic feet (a 10,000 seat church.)
Other tools include:
--- modeling software
--- rendering software
--- prediction software
--- CAD Software

When we visiting a church that is pre planning for a new building, we often will use the sound lab as a resource center and as a hotel on wheels. With the Lab on site, we can create detailed reports that can be followed for building committee, Architects, engineers and audio contractors to move the project forward rather than having endless delay where people are second guessing themselves. The Lab costs less to use for travel than any other form of transportation.

St Joseph Island


Barrie


Niagra on the Lake

Since the Lab went into service in 2002, it has been used at over 60 churches across Canada and the USA. For churches that are pressed for time, we have reports for sound and acoustics ready within 6 days or less instead of 30 to 60 days.


Ottawa


Loydminister, Sa


Sarnia


Abbotsford, BC

Many churches think that consulting is a luxury or for large churches. We have been making every effort to keep our services affordable for churches as small as 150 seating. Before the Lab, it often took several trips to complete our work. Introductory visits, the forensic study and room/audio system testing, analysis of the testing, proofing the test results and presentation of the report. For any project it takes 3 to 6 visits which is added to the consulting fee. With the mobile lab we usually only have to go to a church only once to provide a report with the recommendations needed to solve the problems the church is having. With fewer trips to each church we have been able to adjust our fees for smaller churches to afford a service like ours - even with the current high cost of fuel.
--- April 2005 ---