HPI Hung High at St Eugene's

St Eugene de Mazenod was originally a French citizen who's family fled to Italy to avoid the guillotine at the time of the French Revolution. He eventually became a priest and founded a "Mission fulfilling the most difficult missions of the Church". In Australia the Queensland college of the same name draws inspiration in the de Mazenod tradition in the instruction and personal development of their growing student numbers.

The Church of St Eugene de Mazenod

The Church associated within the college needed a new sound system that would meet the needs of the more modern worship service where the Mass is delivered in a contemporary manner with electronically amplifier music while retaining high spoken word intelligibility.

The coverage area is a “broad church” and the system needs both wide coverage and projection without creating room reflections

Light weight and a variety of rigging options made the system easy to install

The shape and reverberant nature of the building is such that a completely convention loudspeaker system would have difficulties fulfilling both functions to a high standard.

The asymmetrical dispersion of the HPI-110 system was ideal for this purpose and by rigging the boxes high in the ceiling, the whole listening area was adequately covered by just two loudspeakers. The variety of rigging options made installation easy and operation is made simple with a pre programmed digital mixer.

The HPI-110 full range system is a big performer in a small package

Installed by Music Lab in Brisbane, the audio for the church is certainly "not a difficult mission".