Why audio and video belong at the start
A sanctuary’s shape, ceiling, and finishes decide how it will sound before a single speaker is chosen. Once the walls are up, fixing an echo means adding treatment to a room that could have been designed right.
Speakers, cameras, screens, and lights need power, conduit, structural rigging points, and cooling. If those are not in the drawings, they are cut in later — or the system is compromised to fit what was built.
Committees are often told to choose AV last because it is the last thing installed. It is installed last, but it has to be designed first.
What fixes it
What actually helps
Design with the architect
Detailed schematics, rigging and electrical drawings, and heating and cooling calculations go to the architect and the other trades while the drawings can still change.
Room acoustics from the start
Ceiling shape, wall surfaces, and treatment planned so speech is clear and music is full, without retrofitting panels after the fact.
Assistive listening planned in
A loop, Auracast, or receivers decided before the floor is poured, when it is easiest. We’ll help you choose the right option, and your architect can tell you what your local building code says.
Reuse what still serves
Equipment from the old building that still has life in it can be relocated and recommissioned in the new one.
A program report the committee can read
A clear report that explains the system in non-technical language, with 3D renderings of the design choices, so the committee can approve it with confidence.
Related services: Church sound system installation · Church acoustic treatment · Church broadcast and IMAG
When to bring audio and video into the project
A simple order that keeps the room, the budget, and the schedule aligned.
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During the vision and schematic phase
Share how you worship — traditional, blended, or modern — and who you want to reach. That shapes the room itself.
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Before design development is finished
Get AV schematics, rigging points, power, conduit, and cooling loads into the architect’s drawings.
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Before construction documents are final
Coordinate with the electrical, mechanical, and structural trades so nothing has to be cut in later.
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During construction
Rough-in happens with the other trades, then equipment setup, commissioning, and final verification once the room is finished.
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Before the first Sunday
Train your volunteers on the finished system, and have the installation team there for the first service.
Why it matters
How it serves your mission
A new building is a generational decision. Getting the sound, video, and lighting right is what lets it serve the next forty years of baptisms, sermons, and Sunday mornings instead of fighting them.
It also stewards the gift. Money given for the building goes further when nothing has to be torn out and done twice.
Real projects
Churches that faced something similar
From the project record of an experienced church audio, video, and lighting team that has served congregations across Georgia and the Southeast. Each one names where it is.
Greensboro, GA
Lakeside Church
New sanctuary construction with a new audio system, broadcast video, LED walls, production lighting, and acoustic panels, designed, integrated, and commissioned end to end.
- Ground-up sanctuary audio, video, and lighting design and integration
- Broadcast video system (cameras, switching, sync, capture) for live and archive
- LED walls: specification, rigging, mapping, and calibration
- Production lighting with showfile presets and cueing
- Acoustic paneling layout with measurement-based tuning
- Operator training and documentation handoff
Eatonton, GA
Lake Point Community Church
New sanctuary construction with a new audio system, video projection, production lighting, and a distributed AV backbone tying the other rooms together.
- Ground-up sanctuary audio, video, and lighting design and integration
- Audio system install with alignment and tuning
- Video projection specification, rigging, and calibration
- Production lighting with showfile presets and cueing
- Distributed AV to lobbies and classrooms with clear routing
- Operator training and documentation handoff
Cornelia, GA
Level Grove
It began with a single blown-speaker repair and grew through years of repairs, replacements, and upgrades. For the new 900-seat worship center: audio, video, production and house lighting, broadcast/IMAG, LED and digital signage, streaming, distributed audio, and acoustics.
- Began with a speaker repair; grew into full audio, video, and lighting work
- Design and integration for a new 900-seat worship center
- Audio, video, production and house lighting end to end
- Broadcast/IMAG, LED and digital signage, streaming workflows
- Distributed audio and room acoustics tuning across spaces
Covington, GA
Central Church
New sanctuary construction that relocated the church’s existing audio and lighting, plus a new digital audio console, a new DMX lighting console, and LED house lighting.
- New sanctuary build reusing the church’s own equipment where appropriate
- Relocation, rehang, and recommissioning of existing audio and lighting
- Digital audio console with showfile templates and training
- DMX lighting console programming, patch, and cues
- New LED house lighting with zones, dimming, and presets
“[This team] has been our go-to team for sound, lighting, and projection. From fixing problems another company left behind to guiding us through a full new building install, they’ve always gone above and beyond—training our team, answering calls even on Sundays, and standing by their work. Great company, great values, great guys!”