vitaliygoretoy
06-10-08, 02:34 AM
Hi everybody,
I desparately need some help, I have no idea what I should do here.
We have a church that we purchased. It already has speakers everywhere and we'd like to be able to use these. We have our own speakers from before but we think we can make better use of the church's already built in speakers. All the speakers look like they have been custom made with custom enclosures.
Main question I have is what is the best way to connect all of these to our mixer/controller? I have an old Onkyo receiver that I was thinking of connecting all of them to and than connecting the mixer's outputs to one of the receiver's inputs. Would this work well? The receiver probably won't be able to use all the power of the speakers, is there a way we can utilize them more for better/clearer/crisper sound?
Here is a quick sketch of the room and location of speakers, sorry it looks so crappy. The black boxes are the speakers.
http://www.redtaghomefurniture.com/church.bmp
There are speaker wires coming to where their mixer was, but it doesn't look like there are enough wires that each is coming from one single speaker. I tested a few and some of them work, some of them don't, so I will need to find out where the connection is loose. But it looks like there is 1 wire coming for each of these speaker sets:
- 1 speaker wire for the 3 large speakers on main wall
- 1 wire for all the small ones around the main wall
- 1 wire for the large speaker hanging from the ceiling in the center
- 1 wire for the speakers on the balcony pointing towards the front
- 1 wire for speakers under the balcony pointing towards back
Is it okay that they are all hooked up like this, with one speaker wire going to multiple speakers?
Thank you so much for all of your comments and your help.
I desparately need some help, I have no idea what I should do here.
We have a church that we purchased. It already has speakers everywhere and we'd like to be able to use these. We have our own speakers from before but we think we can make better use of the church's already built in speakers. All the speakers look like they have been custom made with custom enclosures.
Main question I have is what is the best way to connect all of these to our mixer/controller? I have an old Onkyo receiver that I was thinking of connecting all of them to and than connecting the mixer's outputs to one of the receiver's inputs. Would this work well? The receiver probably won't be able to use all the power of the speakers, is there a way we can utilize them more for better/clearer/crisper sound?
Here is a quick sketch of the room and location of speakers, sorry it looks so crappy. The black boxes are the speakers.
http://www.redtaghomefurniture.com/church.bmp
There are speaker wires coming to where their mixer was, but it doesn't look like there are enough wires that each is coming from one single speaker. I tested a few and some of them work, some of them don't, so I will need to find out where the connection is loose. But it looks like there is 1 wire coming for each of these speaker sets:
- 1 speaker wire for the 3 large speakers on main wall
- 1 wire for all the small ones around the main wall
- 1 wire for the large speaker hanging from the ceiling in the center
- 1 wire for the speakers on the balcony pointing towards the front
- 1 wire for speakers under the balcony pointing towards back
Is it okay that they are all hooked up like this, with one speaker wire going to multiple speakers?
Thank you so much for all of your comments and your help.