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Adamson installed in Seoul
Andy Wood Apr 17 2008, 10:00am
Daedeok Presbyterian Church boasts new system with Adamson, Lab.guppen, Midas and Dolby
The recently completed Daedeok Presbyterian Church in Seoul, Korea features a state-of-the-art sound system built around an Adamson SpecTrix loudspeaker system.
Daedeok is a special district of Seoul designed for science and engineering research established by the Korean government. Accordingly, most of Deadeok Church’s congregation is made up of students and faculty from the surrounding scientific colleges and laboratories, which devoted their talent and knowledge in the building of the architectural sanctuary.
“From the very beginning of the design, I had a vision of the church being a landmark of the Daedeok Research Area. I traveled to many of beautiful and artistic buildings seeking inspriration, and working with our architect, we finalized a cost effective yet artistic design.” said the Elder Kim Eun Ka, chairman of the new sanctuary. The sanctuary rejects both rectangular organization and symmetry, similar to the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. Its concrete finished wall was influenced by the Opera house in Sydney.
The sanctuary seats 1,000 in the main hall and 500 in a multipurpose sub hall. While the sanctuary’s abstract design is beautiful, it makes achieving crisp, clear sound very difficult. The church’s staff closely reviewed proposals with the top five industry leading sound companies designs for matching its architecture and decided that Adamson’s SpekTrix line source array system presented by Acoutek was the most suitable.
Sam Toyoshima, who is globally famous for acoustic design, and was called in to solve the problems caused by the sanctuary’s glass wall on one side, the asymmetric balconies and a very high ceiling. He designed a wooden reflector / absorber for better ambience, and installed rotatable pillars which have two different sides; one made of fabric, and other of wood, which are rotated according to material performed.
For each of the two main hangs in the sanctuary, one SpekTrix Sub at the top, six 5 degree SpekTrix enclosures, and three 15 degree Spektrix W’s as downfills were installed.
Six Adamson 10MX monitors are placed on stage and a Midas Legend 300/48 channel console graces FOH position. The Adamson cabinets are processed by Dolby Lake and powered by Lab.gruppen amplifiers.
The multipurpose sub hall has a small installed sound system consisting of two SX18’s and one CB-1 cabinet. This setup is also powered by Lab.gruppen, processed by Dolby Lake and run through a Midas Venice 320 board.
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