GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES FOR TRINITY
Trinity Grammar School is an independent Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Kew in Melbourne, Australia.
Good things come in threes for Trinity, and our recent audiovisual upgrade for the school is no different.
The Trinity Chapel is an incredibly important venue for the school and is used by both the Chaplain for in-school services and by the wider Trinity Community for weddings, funerals and other key celebrations. As a result – ensuring the event leader or presenter could get their visual or spoken message clearly to those in attendance – was mission-critical for our team.
The audio system in the chapel has been problematic for the school for some time,. The school told us the audio is not always clear due to the large open space and setup of the old speaker system.
The system was also not particularly easy to use with the traditional array of knobs and dials leading to great difficulty in getting the system to work well.
The school also wanted to add some modern features which have become somewhat standard in premium chapel spaces. This included the ability to record and stream services to make them more accessible to people that could not be there in person.
There were also physical problems in the building such as the lack of HDMI connection at the front lectern and a mess of cables associated with the old system.
This was tricky to make good and DIB coordinated and managed the removal of carpet, chasing of concrete (stes) and the installation of a new floor box to make sure the space was effective for today and future-proofed.
In doing so, we handled a significant pain point of long duration for the school’s team.
It suited the school to have DIB Audiovisual manage the whole process from start to finish including any specialist trades needed.
To help ensure we did not encounter any extra unforeseen ‘excitement’ we arranged for the concrete to be scanned to try and avoid any services that might be hidden in the concrete. Hitting these could trigger a mess and even a costly repair if neglected.
Upgrading an existing system always require a deeper level of understanding to help ensure the new design will work well.
It would be EASIER to just remove all and start again with a new design, but this can be wasteful and our team not only doesn’t like waste, we also pride ourselves in sustainable solutions.
We’re happy to use our highly regarded experience and expertise to plan what parts can be re-used and what cannot and then to integrate that into a central good design incorporating the old and the new.
The Trinity team tell us that they find it simple to work with us.
We have worked together on many of their other complex spaces.
We’ve developed a strong reputation with the school and they had confidence that our design incorporating a simplified touchscreen interface would make the system super simple and therefore more usable.
It was always central to our plans that not only would the space look and sound better but that it would be dramatically simpler for the users to operate.
Key products used in the job were:
An Extron control system including the 7” touchscreen control panel which was the centre point of the simple to operate system. An Extron DSP which is the core of the audio control system. As well as an Extron SMP-351 streaming media process that supports the recording and streaming capabilities.
Also key to this system were the main front of house speaker, the FBT Vertus, DLA1244A. This specialised speaker is a digitally steerable column array speakers and is very effective in reverberant spaces. It allows the specialist installer to focus the audio and ensure a high-quality outcome.
This was coupled with a sub-woofer (CLA208SA) carefully hidden amongst the chapel joinery and a pair of smaller FBT 550BT speakers to help fill some small wing areas.
An outside audio zone was also provided for use during larger events, easily activated via the Extron control panel and comprising an FBT shadow 105T speaker.
This design and installation feels very much like a triple treat for the school, their team and all who attend events at the new improved Chapel space.
For more information on how DIB Audiovisual can help your school or organisation with high-quality audiovisual systems, please give our friendly and experienced team a call on (03) 9457 4800 or email us at info@dibaustralia.com.au
Trinity Grammar School Chapel