Having installed a new Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system, the Bethesda Cathedral in East Singapore turned its attention to sudden peaks in the volume of its A/V presentations.

Dropping a Jünger Audio Level Magic two-channel loudness normaliser between the desk and system patchbay has allowed automatic control of any incoming signal source, regardless of its input level. ‘Since investing in the Jünger unit, we have had no complaints from those listening to the service in any of our three remote locations,’ Daniel Chew, Bethesda Cathedral’s A/V engineer, reports. ‘Best of it all, we don’t have to change any settings from week-to-week because once it was set up by Jünger Audio’s sales engineer Isaac Eng, we were able to leave it alone to get on with doing its job.’

Bethesda Cathedral is spread over four floors, with a 2,000-capacity main sanctuary on the third. This is supplemented by a 600-capacity chapel on the ground floor that is used as an overflow venue if the main sanctuary is full. The A/V system has to send audio to three locations outside the main sanctuary, including to the overflow hall.

Prior to installing the Jünger Audio normaliser, audio levels in the overflow hall were difficult to control, which led to complaints from worshippers who found themselves surprised by sudden fluctuations in volume.

Jünger Audio’s Level Magic two-channel loudness normaliser uses a proprietary adaptive loudness algorithm based on a multi-loop dynamic range control principle. This enables slow changes (AGC) fast changes (transient processing) and look ahead peak limiting to be handled simultaneously, providing audio quality without colouration, pumping, breathing, distortion or modulation effects.

Bethesda Cathedral’s Jünger Audio unit is among an extensive range of new A/V equipment that has recently been installed in order to solve various acoustical and technical problems that had cropped up over the years.

Isaac Eng acted as a consultant on the revamp, which was also designed to upgrade the cathedral’s technology and provide a more compatible interlinked A/V system. Among the new items that have been installed is the Allen & Heath iLive T-112 mixing surface, an iDR-48 mix rack, an Aviom Pro16 AN-16 II personal in-ear monitoring system, an Ashly Audio 4.8SP digital speaker management processor and an Audio Technica 4000 Series wireless system.

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