DSH Audio Visions LLC

09/18/2025

My office this week Wednesday through Sunday, September 17-21. I'm tuning and finishing a new audio system I designed for Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh, PA.

Trinity Cathedral is a late-1800's building, now sandwiched on two sides by city streets and on two sides by 1980's vintage buildings. Classic, spacious and acoustically outatanding, this building was in dire need of a system update.

I started the process with Trinity back in 2020, with my first visit to Pittsburgh on March 17-19. Sandee and I drove out and back, and watched the U.S. shut down over those three days, lome living through an episode of the old Rod Sirlong Twilight Zone show on TV.

A five-year process of designing around my health issues and Trinity's fundraising culminates this week and weekend in what I am really confident will be a sound that worshipers at this grand old worship space have never experienced before: clear, articulate, natural sound no matter where they are seated.

Congratulations, Trinity Cathedral! Enjoy hearing the Word with your new soind system!

09/05/2025

It's been a while since DSH Audio Visions has posted on our page. Busy-ness and health issues made us prioritize. But health issues are now managed and recovered from. It's time to get back to letting you all know what we're up to.

*We're still designing and tuning really high-quality audio and video systems.

*This year we're celebrating 15 years! Actually we've been in birthday mode for almost two years. Our DSH-AV birthday is November 1, 2009. We incorporated as DSH Audio Visions LLC on June 1, 2010. We didn't know exactly what would happen, but by God's grace and with the talents He's blessed us with, we haven't had a down time; it's been busy for 15 years and counting.

*Over the past year we also have become fully-equipped to handle room acoustic needs. We always had some acoustic capabilities, albeit limited to smaller endeavors. BUT...

*We now have Mr. Craig Schaefer working with us. Craig is a nearly-20-year acoustic veteran in architectural acoustics with an extensive working knowledge of physics-based acoustic principles and of the materials available to create the absorptive, diffusive and reflective surfaces required for any situation. He has assisted numerous churches across the U.S. to create pleasing acoustical environments to match the congregation's worship settings.

Having Craig with us means that we can work extremely closely together and with church leaders and project architects to ensure that audio systems and room acoustics work together to help worship spaces come alive for music and project the spoken word clearly and comfortably to every worshiper.

Here are photos of a few of the churches we have completed over the past year.

If you are a past DSH-AV client visiting here, let us know how you're doing. We'd love to hear from you! We don't want to forget the people we've served. If you're finding us for the first time here, let us know how we can serve your church. Call us at 414-254-0759, e-mail to [email protected]. And be sure to visit us on the web at www.dshaudiovisions.com.

Thanks for visiting our page! Look for more to come!

05/09/2024

My office today...Redeemer Lutheran Church (WELS) in Tucson, AZ. These folks need help to improve their audio and video systems and make them easier to operate. Thanks to old high school friend and congregation president Timothy Mills for calling us in to work with them. No worries, Tim! We've got this!

04/09/2024

Beginning work today at St. Peter Catholic Church in Jefferson City, MO. Gorgeous space in dire need of sound help.

04/01/2024

A blessed Easter celebration to all! Thank you to family, friends and clients for your support of me and my business this year and for the past 15 years (yes, DSH-AV is 15 years old this year!).

The biggest thanks goes to our Awesome God, the Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who has brought me (and many of you, too) through some pretty tough times and has seen us all do some really wrong things, and yet gave us the reason to celebrate.

As the Christian songwriter stated so eloquently:

"Give thanks with a grateful heart,
give thanks to the Holy One;
give thanks, because he’s given
Jesus Christ, his Son.

And now let the weak say ‘I am strong’,
let the poor say ‘I am rich’,
because of what the Lord has done for us."

Jesus, the Son of God, the God-Man, came to earth to live the perfect life we could not live, and suffered the wrath of the Father and punishment of hell that we so deserved. But the kicker is that He rose on the third day to give us the full assurance that He won the victory over death and the devil.

For all that and for all the work He still does for us and for being with us always, WE GIVE THANKS!

03/25/2024

Completed in 2023...

Fourth Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD embarked on a significant renovation to their worship space. DSH Audio Visions was enlisted to design a new audio system that would "play nice" with the clean aesthetic look of the space while delivering improvements in speech clarity and consistency of loudspeaker coverage over the old system.

We utilized Renkus-Heinz "steerable" column array speakers at the front, and supported them with Innovox Audio low-profile speakers under the balcony, in the upper balcony and in the narthex.

Each support speaker zone is synchronized in time with the main speakers in front to "lock in" the chancel as the sound source (I am still amazed at the number of churches I am called into where their existing sound systems do not use or have poorly-set time delay compensation. Invariably one of the complaints I've been called in to address is the "echo" in the sound system!).

A subwoofer speaker system is concealed in a side wall and provides deep bass support for electronic instruments when needed.

03/23/2024

Hello all! It's Dave here - the 'D' in DSH Audio Visions. It has been a while (over two years) since my last post. No, we didn't go out of business. But there have been health issues going back three years that forced me to make choices like trying to get work done or make Facebook posts while working to put illnesses, a heart attack, surgeries, and a nasty Covid case into my rearview mirror. With our awesome God on my side to provide the healing, and my dear wife Sandee providing loving support (and the occasional loving kick in the tail), I carry on.

This week and weekend I am in Sioux Falls, SD to tune and oversee completion of a new audio-video system at First Lutheran Church. The FLC worship space is a "grand old lady" with nearly ideal acoustic properties that allow traditional liturgy and choral music to "play nice" with a very-high-quality praise band.

With audio quality to handle critical speech and all types and styles of music equally well, and a video camera/streaming system of broadcast quality, the new system will be a vital ministry tool for First Lutheran for may years to come.

Blessings abound for me and my little design company. One of those blessings is the ability to develop the right solutions to enable every worshiper - whether in-person or joining online - to hear full, clear, natural sound and view online images that are vivid and colorful.

I need to add here that one of the things we enjoy providing is solutions that are a bit unique for situations that require them (which is most of the projects we do). One of those solutions is a custom "fill" speaker, like a soundbar, that is situated atop the organ console in the balcony. In this case it is needed so that choir members can hear clearly when there is no other "good" way to deliver the sound to them. The custom enclosure (see image in the photos attached) is built by awesome woodworker and brother-in-law Bill Nuoffer and carries sound from the chancel 120 feet away to those choir people. Thanks Bill!

We also needed to provide support for music presented from the balcony - cantors, soloists, choirs and instruments - as needed. The use of architectural line array speakers enable this to happen without those voices and instruments sounding "mic'd". Worshipers seated in the main level transepts and upper-level transepts will appreciate the time-synchronized support since they cannot see or hear sound from the balcony without the support of the sound system.

On this project we also shout out to Chris Oswood and the folks at Innovox Audio (St. Paul, MN) for producing such good sounding and visually unobtrusive loudspeakers, to Symetrix for the powerful digital audio processor, Allen &Heath for the digital mixing console, Earthworks, Shure, and Countryman for the broadcast quality microphones.

I've got to give a huge shout-out to Mark, Mike, Jeff and the rest of the crew at MidStates Audio-Video in Sioux Falls for the outstanding installation work.

And last but not least, I've got some new friends at First Lutheran, who have been absolutely wonderful to work with.

Watch for more entries to come from projects we've completed over the past several years, and more new projects to come.

Enjoy the pics!

05/20/2022

There was a nice (we think!) piece written about us and our project at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame. Enjoy!

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05/14/2022

After almost two years of delays, the renovated Public Auditorium at the WE Energies corporate office in Milwaukee is complete. DSH Audio Visions designed the audio-video system: concert quality sound and cinema quality video (11 foot high x 22' wide LED wall).

Finally able to get some good photos today while making a couple of audio tweaks. This is a very cool room, built in about 1909 and renovated in art deco style in 1941. The lower wall panels are solid maple. Changeable color LED light now graces the inset wall areas where windows once "lived."

Not our usual church project, but we enjoyed putting this one together!

05/03/2022

Our unofficially official company tagline...

01/19/2022

DSH Audio Visions....the next generation! Dave, Sandee, and Christopher with "newbie" son/grandson Carl, born January 13. Welcome to the world!