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Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross chooses Powersoft for historic renovation

As the largest church of any faith in New England, Cathedral of the Holy Cross has long served as a gathering place and "Mother Church" for Catholics living in the Archdiocese of Boston. Since its dedication in 1875 however, the structure’s Upper Church has received relatively little refurbishment - until 2018, when crews began an extensive renovation project of the 150-year-old Gothic revival structure.

This renovation included a full-scale overhaul of the Cathedral’s sound system, which is now powered by Powersoft Ottocanali 1204 amplifiers and a custom designed line-array employing Powersoft D-Cell 504 2-/4-channel amp modules with onboard DSP and controlled by Powersoft’s Armonía software.

Evan Landry, CTO and President of Landry Audio Division, Commlink Integration Corporation, designed the new sound system for Cathedral of the Holy Cross around a custom unit based on a column of two Innovox MicroBeam 32 units, which serves as a focal point for the entire sound system.

"The primary focus of the system acts as an acoustic anchor, so that all the sound sounds like it’s coming from the chancel - the place where it looks like it’s coming from," says Landry. Due to dimensional limitations in the Cathedral, the custom MicroBeam system uses 52 elements - rather than the 64 that are normally used - and makes use of Powersoft’s D-Cell 504 module, which provides processing and power for the dipole spaced low frequency section and processed line level outputs used with the Cathedral’s custom MicroBeam.

The Innovox MicroBeam steerable line array uses 26 active mid-/low-frequency elements (2.75-inch cone drivers), which are powered by Powersoft D-Cell 504 modules, and 26 high-frequency elements (3.25-inch ribbon drivers).

To carry the sound coverage from the chancel through the 200 feet extending back to the rear of the nave, Landry and Oswood installed 18 additional Innovox line arrays - one for each of the support columns running along the aisle.

For powering each of the support line arrays along the columns, an additional five channels of monitors, plus another speaker acting as a mirror image of the acoustic anchor, they chose Powersoft Ottocanali 1204 amplifiers. To set up the system’s DSP, Oswood used Powersoft Armonía software.

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