Western Slope Pro Audio, Inc. Montrose, CO has installed two audio systems in the recently constructed St. Clare of Assisi Catholic School in Edwards, CO.

The new building houses the K-6 grade classrooms and features a new gymnasium that also serves the congregation for their worship services.

The classrooms each received an in-ceiling speaker that provides paging access to the classrooms as well as the daily class signal tones. An Applied Technical Systems master clock was installed that provides multi-schedule, multi zone signals for all class changes.

A TOA A-906MKII mixer/amplifier was installed and provides access for paging and includes a tone control module that generates the class change bells in the classrooms and a TOA M-900MKII mixer/preamp was installed for the gym and locker room paging system.

Apogee Point 5ProT speakers were installed in the gym for class signals and paging capability. The internal 70-volt transformer were tapped at 30-watts each to ensure adequate level.

A Peavey IPA300 power amplifier was installed to power the gym and locker room zone.With the gymnasiums multi-function design requirement a full-range sound system was required to handle both sporting event announcements and the worship services.

Acoustic design was handled by Dennis Fleischer, Ph.D. whose company MuSonics works with their clients to ensure that the room is as acoustically flat as possible. Gymnasiums are notoriously "bad" acoustic environments, but with proper treatment sound systems can be made much more intelligible.

With the wall treatment installed we were able to concentrate on coverage and intelligibility. For these reasons a pair of Apogee AE-2s2 loudspeakers were chosen.

The AE-2 provides exceptional audio quality and the horizontal dispersion of 165 degrees. According to Scott Ikier,

Apogee AE-2s2 Installation

President of Western Slope Pro Audio, Inc., "This speaker has worked very well for us in other gym installations. Typically the only areas that do not receive direct sound coverage are under each basketball stanchion and the jump circle."

The speakers were installed over the center court area with one covering the bleacher side of the gym and the other the player benches and announcer’s table. The Apogee P-2 processor was installed which uses a sophisticated signal processor unique to each model of loudspeaker, phase filters, frequency response filters, limiting for driver protection, distortion canceling circuitry, and other techniques that dramatically improve the response of each system. Shure DFR11EQ’s were used to tune and balance the room.

Power for the main speaker system was provided by a Mackie Designs M-2600 power amplifier. The M-2600 design is very flexible and offers numerous adjustments that aid in tuning the speaker system.

To accommodate the multiple use requirements of the gym a Whirlwind 16-channel snake cable was installed from the equipment cabinet to the announcer table location. A multi-connector was installed in a wall plate allowing the snake to be removed and stored when the sound system is not used.

From this location microphones and instruments may be plugged in for the worship services and mics or audio sources for sporting or other events.WSPA, Inc. is the regions only full-service professional sound, video and control system design-build company, with over 37-years of combined industry experience.

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