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How do you make one round, 1980s worship and performing arts center sound right for a quiet sermon, a contemporary worship band, a full symphony orchestra and a hymn festival? And how do you do it without losing the building everyone loves?

That was the challenge at Concordia University Irvine in Orange County, California. Rather than replace their landmark CU Center, the university rebuilt it around a deliberately dry room and let Amadeus’ ART Acoustics system create everything else.

Join Dr Jeff Held (Assistant Dean and Director of Arts, Concordia University Irvine), Jeff Miller (Associate VP Theatre & Acoustics, Salas O’Brien) and Michael Mendoza (Project Manager, Sound Image Integration), alongside Amadeus Acoustics founders Fabio Kaiser, Thorsten Rohde and Volker Werner. Together they’ll go behind the scenes of a project where acoustics, worship and music education meet.

In this 60-minute session, you’ll:

• Explore the Concordia Case Study: Discover why the university chose to keep its iconic building, and why active acoustics was the only way to make the expanded 700-seat hall work.

• Understand active acoustics beyond reverb: Learn how the system virtually reshaped the room itself using our geometric approach.

• Build presets people will actually use: Get a practical approach to organising presets around how a venue really runs, from services with adjustable congregational lift to concerts and events, so staff and volunteers can work with them week to week.

• Learn how to adapt to temporary solutions: Discover how to handle a virtual organ as a spatial source to give it a grand, clean and immersive sound while the real organ arrives.

• Plan for the second tuning: Hear what only becomes clear once a venue is in daily use, and how to build room for real-world feedback into your project timeline.

Whether you’re a consultant, integrator, music educator, or responsible for a house of worship or a university venue, this webinar is a rare look at how one multi-purpose space can be given many acoustic identities.

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