Basilica Église St. Joseph
New Church sound system from
Data & Facts
Client
Paroisse Saint-Joseph
Rue Petit-Senn 1
CH-1207 Genf (Genève) (Switzerland)
Sound system from
PHOENIX Professional Audio GmbH
Period
2019
Audio equipment from 
- Main and side nave + chapel: Active DSP Beam Steering Line Arrays DIGIVOICE-350.16DSP2, DIGIVOICE-230.16DSP2 and DIGIVOICE-75.8DSP2
- Main and side nave + chapel: Digital DSP automatic mixer amplifier PV-DSP-4ACD.9.4.2X (400W+200W/100V) with class D power amplifier, 9 IN+ 4 OUT, phantom power, HPF filter (100Hz), MIC.-LINE, digital automatic System, audio matrix, conference configuration/priority, dynamic compressor/expander, de-esser and MP3 player etc.
- Main and side nave + chapel: Digital power amplifier with 400W sinus/100V output and EQ WM-400DT
- 6-channel mixer preamp, matrix 6 IN x 2 OUT RMX-6
- Ambo/Altar: Gooseneck microphone MEX-1-500 s, microphone stand MEGZ-2 S
Project description
Church PA
In the summer of 2019, the famous Église Saint-Joseph church in Geneva (Switzerland), built in 1868, including the St. Victor chapel, was equipped with a new sound reinforcement system from PHOENIX Professional Audio:
A new PV-DSP-4ACD.9.4.2X digital automatic mixing amplifier from Phoenix Professional Audio‘s own brand with Class-D power amplifier, which is equipped with the latest technologies such as DeEsser (dynamic damping of “SSS” and hissing sounds), compressor expander and much more, ensures a more precise room equalization and excellent adaptation to the room acoustics.
The main and side nave and chapel are sounded via digital “DIGIVOICE” LINE ARRAYS with Beam Steering Technology , which were specially developed for sound transmission in acoustically challenging rooms with long reverberation times. The Beam Steering technology used in the speakers of the Phoenix Professional Audio brand enables electronic controllability of the sound opening angle and angle of inclination in the vertical direction, continuously variable in real time, without any mechanical alignment of the speaker systems (tilt).
The filigree MEG and MEX gooseneck microphones from Phoenix Professional Audio‘s own brand on the Ambo and on the altar merge with the noble church interior design and ensure perfect speech reproduction thanks to an extremely linear frequency response.
Fig.: DIGIVOICE-230.16DSP2 – The active DSP Beam Steering Line Arrays have been specially developed for sound transmission in churches. On board: 1 x steerable and 1 x fixed beam for close range. 16 channel DSP2, L=2.3m, 16 x 20W/PWM, PA range 25 mtr@95dB. 210 watts sinus power. Equipped with 20 x 3.5″ neodymium drivers and 3 x HF magneto-static transducers.
About us
With over 30 years of expertise and +3000 projects implemented worldwide, PHOENIX Professional Audio has specialized in the field of professional PA – with a particular focus on church acoustics & public address sound reinforcement. For managing director and project manager Peter M. Krziwon as well as project manager Harald Seidl, perfect speech intelligibility and music reproduction are the highest demands – especially in acoustically demanding rooms such as churches.
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