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Lourdes sacramental audio upgrades to APG

Lourdes sacramental audio upgrades to APG
Lourdes sacramental audio upgrades to APG

APG has completed an installation in a church situated in The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. Built in 1988, the Church of St Bernadette is the most recent addition to Lourdes’ three main sanctuaries, and the biggest church in France. Following a series of comments from preachers officiating in the church, which can accommodate 5,000 worshippers and 350 wheelchairs, the historical Lourdes team of AV engineers - namely Gilbert Noël, Denis Argentière and Daniel Pinout - decided that it was time for an audio upgrade.

 

The AV team enrolled consulting firm Gamba Acoustique who applied a series of acoustical measurements in order to describe the different principles and sonic solutions for this complex venue. “We established a spec sheet based on those requirements, and started looking for the best price-to-quality ratio from integrators. Lourdes can’t afford any downtime, so it was also very important for us to get a local integrator involved,” Lourdes AV technician Daniel Pinout explains.

 

Many proposals were received, and only two were shortlisted. It was Biarritz based ACE Event who won the contract: The local AV integration and rental staging specialist enrolled engineering consulting firm Grandmougin Conseils - who specialises in acoustics and electroacoustic - in order to commit on the results of the proposed solution. BLEV Organisation‘s founder and director, Bruno Le Vacon, was hired as project manager for the audio deployment of the Church of St Bernadette.

 

The system installed by ACE Event comprises 30 APG Uniline UL210D cabinets mounted on the ceiling in hangs of three and split evenly between the two sanctuary sections. Everything is connected via Dante and a digital mixing console, with automatic zonal configurations by pressing a single button.

 

A new control room was constructed at the back of the Benedictine sanctuary with the remaining backline equipment staying in the old control room which overlooks the sanctuary. It comprises four Powersoft Ottocanali 12K4 amplifiers, three APG DMS48 digital processors and a Furman M-10Lx power conditioner.

 

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