Danley Loudspeakers at College Park Church and Shortridge High School, Indianapolis College Park Church, in Indianapolis, Indiana has completed a new, 4,000-seat sanctuary with raked seating that can accommodate the entire congregation. David Wright, president at Wright Consulting Associates, recommended a subwoofer solution with Danley Sound Labs TH-MINI subwoofers. WCA arranged an audition for the church A/V tech team and recommended that subwoofers already designed be replaced with Danley models instead. The church favors contemporary music, with a live band, a full choir, and an orchestra. The services often incorporate dramatic reenactments and prerecorded multimedia support, both of which require full sound reinforcement. "Originally some soft ideas about ground-stacking subwoofers in fairly arbitrary positions along front walls and corners of the room led to inconsistent low end," said Wright. "Flying subs is always preferred by Wright, but structural considerations conspired to nix the idea. The next best idea was to hide subwoofers underneath the center dais. "But the space underneath the dais kept getting smaller during construction," Wright continued. "It was an ideal application of the Danley TH-MINI subwoofer, which we had flown successfully in other projects. The TH-MINI is the only subwoofer on the market that could be hidden under the dais and yet still deliver compelling deep bass to 4,000 seats." He adds that proper balancing and commissioning are key to the success of any sound system. "That intangible part of the system was done exceptionally well by Acoustic Dimensions, who we originally recommended to Aspen Group, our architect. By cleverly employing delays, listeners anywhere in the sanctuary naturally localize all sounds to the stage, the best part of the design and key to the performance of the system." Wright will again employ eight Danley TH-MINI subwoofers in Indianapolis' Shortridge High School, an historical location. In a state where basketball is king, (18 of the largest high school gyms in the USA are located in Indiana) the school's new 4,000-seat gymnasium will be large enough to host large sectional tournaments. Wright and his employees Daniel Farrar and Russ Hoppel carefully modeled the space in EASE and determined that the bass component would be best served by flying two end-firing subwoofer arrays, each lobe aimed at one of two gigantic bleacher sections, to minimize spill from room surfaces. But the modeling served an acoustics purpose first. "We worked to simultaneously keep the acoustic budget in line even while bringing a six-second reverb down to one-and-a-half seconds," explained Wright. "We considered a number of full-range solutions and planned to present them to the client as a 'good, better, best' option set." But we were surprised that the 'best' option was two Danley Genesis GH-60 horns, one for each bleacher section. Its efficiency and tight pattern control would work in synergy with well placed acoustical treatments to maintain impact and clarity. The numbers led us to the realization that the Danley solution would be less expensive than the original design. The Genesis Horn coverage and efficiency allowed us to replace nine other boxes with just two Danleys. The reduction in the total loudspeaker cost combined with the reduction in installation labor made the Danley solution the least expensive and also best-performing." 
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