Company History
JdB Sound Acoustics has been in the Church Sound business since 1981. The
company was formally called H.I.S. Systems and before that “H” Communications.
Over the years it has change its mission a number of times. It started
out to be a church sound system turnkey installation company. Later it
switched to a sales company selling church sound system for other turnkey
companies. A few years later it returned to turnkey business until 1995.
!995 was a milestone year. The company went on the internet, published
a revised version of a book on church sound and expanded its work area
to include all of Canada and the USA.
At the same time, 1995 was when JdB Sound Acoustics became a fulltime consulting
firm. Before 1995 the company was averaging 10 to 18 church projects per
year. As a consulting company, it has been able to work on 18 to 40 church
projects per year. From 1981 to 2008, the company has worked on over 500
churches, 580 worship spaces, 312 Fellowship halls and many choir/rehearsal
spaces and classrooms.
In recent years the company has branch out in several areas. Its mission
now includes Full Church Building Designing, Sanctuary Design, Computer
Modeling and working on extreme acoustical challenges internationally.
In recent years churches have been sending blueprints just for evaluations,
changes and opinions.
Today, JdB Sound Acoustics continues to work hard within the church community
and living up to the standards posted on their internet website. That standard
has been the touchstone of the kind of service that JdB Sound Acoustics
follows. Their commitment is to never let any worship space and sound system
to perform below that level of performance.
Joseph De Buglio
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Joseph De Buglio was born in Toronto, Ontario to Italian Immigrants. Once
fluent in the traditional Italian hand language, a spiritual conversion
changed his life and old ways. In his late teens he drifted from one trade
to another learning a variety of skills. These skills helped him excel
in Telecommunication Technologies. After getting married, relocating and
giving up Telecommunication, he was hired by a Church construction company.
After a disappointing season in constructing churches, he went to the dedication
of the church he helped build. The sound was awful. It was hard to understand
anyone further that 20 ft from you and when you spoke through the sound
system it was no better. The amplified sounds were loud enough but it was
almost impossible to understand what was being said.
Angered that he had been working for a company that was building churches
with no acoustical consideration whatsoever, Joseph set out to learn everything
he could about church sound. He looked for a school that taught church
sound and acoustics. There were none so he set out to learn on his own.
Right away he learned that selling churches turnkey sound systems was easy.
Getting churches to fix the room: that was major problem. Poor acoustics
limits the performance of all aspects of worship, limits overall church
attendance and it seriously limits the performance of any sound system.
In an attempt to remedy that problem, Joseph wrote educational articles
on church sound which were professional edited and published in many denominational
magazines between 1983 to 1991. He wrote enough of them that many of his
clients suggested he put them all together as a book. Joseph knew that
such a task was beyond his skill. He asked a number of local sound experts
to collaborate in writing a book. Everyone declined. Some cited that he
was giving away information that they felt were trade secrets which would
hurt their business.
After hitting the books, Joseph found just about all of these so called
trade secrets already in print. Most of them were available to the public.
After sorting out the ones he felt were important to churches, he started
writing. With his limited writing skills and un-diagnosed Dyslexia, he
tried his best to compile the information. When the book was completed
he tried to get it published. No Local Christian publishing company was
interested. They cited that it was poorly written and was also very critical
of Architects. The book also criticized churches for not learning from
their mistakes. Not willing to give it up, he printed a few copies of the
book and gave it to some churches.
All of the churches were impressed with the information. One of those churches
was impressed enough with the information that they re-installed the new
sound system they bought earlier that year. The church was amazed at the
improvements and found that their sound system was able to perform better
than the HIS Church Sound System Standard. With churches willing to overlook
the poor writing skills, he was encouraged to self publish. As the book
was being sold to whoever was interested, he received positive reviews
from the church community who were willing to overlook the wordy clutter.
The book was panned by his peers for being disorganized and full of grammar
and spelling mistakes.
His peers kept telling him that no one would take his book seriously and
if they supported it would be an embarrassment to them and the professional
audio community. Joseph was undaunted by the naysayers. He tried to recruit
people to help him rewrite the book but without adequate funding, no one
would help. In his naďve way he started selling the book. He honestly thought
and believed that most people within the Christian community would look
at the information over the quality of the writing. He was right. It seems
that many churches understood what he was trying to do and were willing
to overlook the poor wordsmith skills. To this day, many churches have
benefited from the book. The book was first released in 1991 then updated
in 1994 and again in 1996, 98, 2000, and 2004. Today he continues working
for churches that are looking for a permanent fix to they sound problems.
Copyright (c) 1981-2007 JdB Sound, Acoustics
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A.D.D., Tinnitus and Dyslexia (A part of his personal Testimony)
In 1995 he was diagnosed with ADD Attention Deficit disorder and in 2007
with Dyslexia and Tinnitus. He had these problems since birth. These handicaps
hampered his social development, education and from fully comprehending
the way some people would talk to him.
Medication helped with his ADD but there is no cure for the Tinnitus or
Dyslexia. His level of Dyslexia was such that when he tried to proof read
his work; he would read the written mistakes as being correct. Putting
the article away for a few weeks and proof reading it later didn’t help.
This would also translate in how he would express himself. Today he understands
why no publishing company would publish his book.
At 51 years of age, he finally understood why he would argue with people
or why you needed to ask him 10 times what he was trying to say. His excessive
talking was his way of compensating for these invisible handicaps. He learned
that what he thought he said and what actually came from of his mouth was
often different. Often he would think that he was saying something nice
when what came out was sometimes hurtful. These hidden handicaps went uncheck
for years, costing him many friends and relationships. Behaviour modification
sessions did little but his writing skills improved.
Joseph has been undaunted with these handicaps. He developed other skills
to compensate for Tinnitus and Dyslexia. Many Dyslexics are gifted with
solving visual problems. In their heads they can instantly see solutions
to physical problems like what is needed for engineering and architecture.
Many Dyslexics can jump from A to Z in one step, making fewer mistakes
than their peers. This is how many Dyslexic people compensate. They just
use different problem solving skills to get answers which often appears
as shortcuts.
When you ask a Dyslexic how they arrived at the answers so quickly, they
say things like – “can’t you see that?” Or “it simple” - and then they
go on and on and on and they will talk you ears off trying their best to
explain it. You may not be able to follow along with what they are saying,
but be assured; they can communicate very well with drawings and sketches
for everyone to understand.
To the average person, people who are thought of as being gifted are Dyslexic.
A Dyslexic who is gifted usually sees themselves as being normal. The Dyslexic
often can’t understand why a normal person can’t see solutions as they
do. When it comes to solving or preventing problems in the disciplines
that they choose like church sound system and acoustical, they often have
higher success rates.
Joseph loves to help churches as one church helped him when he was 18 –
a part of his life he shares often. Joseph is constantly trying to better
his people skills as he continues to serve the church community on a full
time basis. Churches that have been willing to overlook his people skills
have been well rewarded.
I'm not the only one with this gift.
ADD - ( Attention-Deficit Disorder )
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