To ensure the best sonic experience at events celebrating 50 years of pastoral leadership in 2025, New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore turned to a Meyer Sound Panther large-format line array system.
The new system, installed by Charlotte, North Carolina-based integrator Wave AVL, replaced an outdated setup and provided the church with custom-finish audio tailored to meet the demands of the church’s sanctuary.
The primary function of the design is to support the weekend services and conferences at New Psalmist. The sanctuary seats more than 3,500 people and is broken into main floor seating, additional seating in the balcony, and stadium-style seating in the side loges. To cover all the seating areas, the loudspeaker system design is a mix of line array and point-source components. The loudspeakers combine to form a unique stereo cross-matrix system, which was designed by Wave and modeled in Meyer Sound’s Mapp 3D system design and prediction tool.
Two main left and right arrays comprise Panther loudspeakers. Two shorter arrays of Leopard compact linear line array loudspeakers provide side coverage.The point-source loudspeakers for over- and under-balcony fills are a combination of UPQ-D3 full-size loudspeakers, Ultra-X40 compact loudspeakers, and Ultra-X20 compact wide-coverage loudspeakers. Ultra-X20 loudspeakers are also incorporated as front fills. The low frequencies are supported by 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements. The full system is managed by Galileo Galaxy 816 and 408 network platforms. New Psalmist also requested the loudspeakers to be painted a custom white. The church streams all of their services to YouTube, adding to the importance of having a system that looks as good as it sounds, blending seamlessly into its surroundings to minimize distractions and keep the focus on the message.