ALACHUA, FLORIDA    Sabine's ADF-4000 Power-Q™ provides feedback-free and worry-free sound to Daytona's 2,200-seat Assembly Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Larry Kommers of Sight & Sound in Laurens, SC says the Sabine ADF-4000 Power-Q™ is a powerful element in the Assembly Hall's sound system. "We chose the Power-Q™ because we knew we could use the equalizer, the FBX Feedback Exterminator, the compressor/limiter and the real-time analyzer-without having to have different pieces of equipment hung in circuitry, and all having to be converted back and forth from digital to analog. It makes for a much cleaner installation," asserts Kommers.

The Assembly Hall installation makes good use of the Power-Q's many functions. "We are using the parametric EQ, the 31-band third-octave EQ, the FBX Feedback Exterminator and the compressor," states Kommers. "And of course we used the auto-EQ function to set it up. We also use the display screen on the Power-Q to monitor what's going on," he continues.

The Power-Q's ease of operation also helped assure against system failure. Kommers says he installed two completely identical, redundant systems into the main auditorium. "Now these systems have to be dead equal to each other," states Kommers. And that is another reason why the Power-Q™ was selected. "With the Power-Q, we can very easily get the exact same equalization, exact same compression, and the exact same configuration for the sound on each of them. During the program we can hit the switch to go from standby and the audience will never hear the switch-never detect that it is now going through different equipment."

The Power-Q™ is not the only Sabine equipment installed within the Assembly Hall. Kommers says he used a Sabine FBX-1020 Feedback Exterminator for the stage monitors-making sure that "the people on the stage could hear what the audience was hearing-without causing any feedback."

The Assembly Hall opened its doors for the first time on January 8, 1999. Since then the sound system has gotten very good reviews according to Kommers. " We are very pleased with the sound," says William Heien, manager of the Daytona Beach Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. Kommers states that he has had requests from other similar facilities-one in New York State, one in Pittsburgh and another one in Florida-to look over their systems and give advice. "We are going to recommend using Sabine," asserts Kommers.

The Daytona Assembly Hall is the third such facility into which South Carolina's Sight & Sound Company has installed Sabine Power-Qs or other Sabine equipment.

The POWER-Q™ combines the functions of nine separate products into one easy-to-use 2U package. The 24-bit, two-channel POWER-Q™ contains Parametric EQ (up to 12 band per channel, with low and high pass filters), 31-band Graphic EQ with adjustable filter widths, full-featured Real-Time Analyzer, Compressor/Limiter, Delay, Noise Gate and 24 patented FBX Feedback Exterminator Filters (12 per channel). All functions operate concurrently.

Sabine's FBX products are used by such diverse venues as the United Nations (NY), The American Stock Exchange, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Vatican, NASA and Walt Disney Company. In addition, Sabine products have been selected for use at the Sydney (Australia) Olympics 2000.

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