Statistics have shown that acoustical consultation and the follow through recommendations that are implemented costs less during construction than the costs of repairs after the fact. Often, that is all it takes. An Acoustical and Audio expert who specializes in churches spends a great deal of their time fixing other peoples mistakes. Logic says that churches should hire their acoustical expert and Graphic artist before an Architect is hired and before the design of the church is chosen. This has saved churches a lot of engineering fees, even for a packaged church that has seating for only 240 people.
Acoustical experts are specialists in what they do.
They are often willing to take full responsibility of the performance of the room and the full design and performance of the sound system. House painters don't paint family portraits very well, but they do often use the same equipment and tools that Artists use. The same applies equally to the Sound System designs too. This chain of events over the past 50 years has caused massive confusion and havoc in the church community in many ways. As a result, these people will do one of three things.