Stage Audio Works has installed a new audio setup to Father’s House Church in Gqeberha with distributed Plus Audio system, the new system had to overcome low ceilings and hard room reflections.
When a church’s ministry vision meets tough room acoustics, Sunday morning production can become a constant balancing act. For Father’s House Church in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), their sanctuary presented a classic contemporary worship challenge: a wide seating layout, low ceilings, and polished concrete floors.
To elevate both high-energy worship and clear, articulate preaching, the church partnered with long-time integration partner Stage Audio Works (SAW) to install a distributed Plus Audio system engineered specifically to handle the building's physical real estate.
Balancing impactful music with intelligible spoken word demands uniform coverage across the entire room. Instead of driving high volume from a traditional front-of-house array, which triggers harsh acoustic reflections in wide, hard-surfaced spaces, SAW adopted a decentralised approach. By bringing the speakers closer to the audience, they achieved complete coverage while drastically reducing room reflections.
Tailored for contemporary worship, The Father’s House Church system uses Plus Audio CPH212 and CPH210 point-source speakers for clear, controlled main and delay coverage, complemented by CPU105 front fills and ET218B subwoofers for warm low-end headroom. Driven by networked AC415 and AC420 Dante amplifiers, the system relies on onboard DSP and FIR filtering to ensure an uncompromised signal chain and exact time alignment across all zones.
The project marks the latest chapter in a long-standing relationship between the two organisations, dating back to when Father’s House Church first met and held services on the campus of Nelson Mandela University, where SAW supported their early technical needs.