WorxAudio Elevates Audio at Elevate Life Church
Mobile church turns to WorxAudio PA for weekend services.
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Castle Hills Church Adds A&H Systems
Rebuilding after flooding, San Antonio church updates audio with Allen & Heath.
Shepherding Audio for The Lamb's Chapel
An sizable new sanctuary for The Lamb's Chapel sports an audio system to match.
OFX Turns to EAW for Multiple HOW Installations
EAW Radius systems now reside in churches in Philadelphia and Columbia, MD.
IEM Mixing Matures for Houses of Worship
By Steve Harvey. Houses of worship may share timeless insights, but their audio systems are increasingly expected to be modern by congregations used to hearing quality audio everywhere else in their lives. With that in mind, we look at choir miking and how different HOWs are approaching consoles, PA systems, acoustic treatments, IEM mixing and more.
Church Combats Reverb and Slap Echo with GIK Acoustic
More than two-dozen large panels were used to counter reverb and echo in the sanctuary.
Reaching to the Choir
By Al Fernald. Choir microphones don’t automatically grab your attention—if anything, they’re meant to blend into the scenery—but they’re crucial for bringing a group of voices to worshipers, whether via the house PA system, recordings or broadcasts.
CrossRoads Church’s Straight Path to WorxAudio
CrossRoad Baptist Church recently upgraded its sound reinforcement system with PreSonus WorxAudio loudspeakers.
The Gooseneck of Notre Dame
The Church of Notre Dame in Western Pennsylvania recently obtained a DPA Microphones’ d:screet SC4098 Podium Microphone.
Woodstock Church Stocks Up on Yamaha
The First Baptist Church Woodstock replaced its aging Yamaha PM1D consoles with new RIVAGE PM10s.
Ocean Springs Church Upgrades with ICONYX
As part of a major expansion, First Presbyterian Church in Ocean Springs, LA upgraded its audio system with Renkus-Heinz.
When The Met Church Met ShowMatch
Houston’s The Met Church updates 20+ year old audio system with Bose.
New Hope’s New Sanctuary Gets New Audio
When New Hope Presbyterian Church completed its new sanctuary, it needed an audio system that could accommodate both traditional and contemporary music services.
Live Sound Pros Ready Masterclasses for AES@NAMM 2018
AES@NAMM To Offer Extensive Live Sound Masterclasses
Sound Art Covers HOW Arena Event
Canada's Sound Art provided audio for the YC Alberta Youth Christian Group event held at the Rexall Place Arena.
Abu Dhabi Church Solves Sound Issues with 16th System
Regional audio company Crownstar Technologies conquered acoustical issues inside the highly reverberent St. Paul's Church in Abu Dhabi.
L-Acoustics Opens NYC Office
Aiming to underline its presence on the East Coast and also the Broadway theatrical market, L-Acoustics has opened a new office in midtown Manhattan, located within walking distance to Penn Station.
Wirebox Updates Salvation Army’s Audio
The Salvation Army Temple in Atlanta recently upgraded its audio system, ditching a 20-year-old PA in the process. In its place is a new Nexo Geo S12 line array system, installed by Wirebox Media (Smyna, GA), which also spec’d a plethora of Yamaha gear.
New Covenant Updates with A&H
New Covenant Christian Ministries recently worked with dB Integrations of Gainesville, Georgia to update its audio system with a variety of new mixers from Allen & Heath covering FOH, broadcast and personal monitoring.
Renkus-Heinz Rolls into Lake Wales Church
The First United Methodist Church of Lake Wales recently upgraded the audio system in its near-70 year old building with a new Renkus-Heinz PA designed and installed by Lakeland, FL AV systems integrator MABE.
At AES: RF Panel: 'Scan Early and Often'
By Steve Harvey. The successful completion of the FCC's Incentive Auction earlier this year set the countdown clock ticking for wireless mic operators, who must vacate the 600 MHz band by July, 2020. But as a panel of RF experts on opening day of the convention stressed, some wireless equipment users will be losing access in their regions much earlier.
Analog Church Goes Digital with Roland
Eastridge Church in Issaquah, WA recently updated audio in its 1,400-seat main sanctuary with the addition of a Roland Professional M-5000 OHRCA Live Mixing Console.
Baptist Church Rolls with Renkus
The First Baptist Church in Natchez, MS may be as old as the State of Mississippi itself, but its current home was built in 1984. Recently the church replaced its audio system—also from that era—with Renkus-Heinz IC32-24-RN digitally steerable line arrays provided by regional audio house, MS Audio.
Church Adds A&H dLive Console
In its 3,800-capacity auditorium, Centro Cristiano de Guayaquil (CCG) recently installed an Allen & Heath dLive S Class mixing system and ME personal monitoring system.
Spectrum Sound Goes Deep with DiGiCo
Nashville-based Spectrum Sound recently updated its inventory with the addition of six new DiGiCo SD12 mixing consoles and four additional SD-Racks. These come in addition to the four S21, six SD10 and dozen SD9 consoles, as well as 15 SD-Racks and eight D-Racks that the audio provider already owns.
T-Mobile Lights Up First 600 MHz Site
T-Mobile has made good on its promise to begin lighting up new 600 MHz services in August, announcing that its first network site, in Cheyenne, WY, is now live.
Congress Writes to FCC About Wireless Mics
By Steve Harvey. A letter to the Federal Communications Commission from a bipartisan Congressional group could potentially make more frequency spectrum available to wireless microphone operators.
Pros Prep For Sound Summit Seattle
Clear-Com, DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics, Sound Devices, and K-Tek will host The Sound Summit Seattle in August, taking over the Columbia City Theater in Seattle on Thursday, August 17, 2017.
FCC Issues 600 MHz Consumer Disclosure
By Steve Harvey. The Federal Communications Commission has issued an Order that provides the specific language for the Consumer Disclosure notice to be displayed on wireless mic products operating in the 600 MHz service band.
Nexo Goes On Tour
That Nexo loudspeakers are going on the road may not come as a surprise, but what makes this instance unique is that it’s the Nexo M10 Experience Tour—a series of training sessions for the new Nexo Geo M10, offered by Yamaha Professional Audio.
T-Mobile to Enter 600 MHz in August
By Clive Young. Pro-audio RF wranglers and wireless users may be in for a surprise next month, as T-Mobile announced yesterday that it will make its first in-roads into 600 MHz next month, far head of the original FCC-based transition timeline of 39 months from now, and even ahead of T-Mobile’s news earlier this week that it planned to enter the space by Halloween.
Sennheiser Unpacks FCC Wireless Ruling
Sennheiser is applauding the Federal Communications Commission’s Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, ratified on July 13, 2017.
FCC Clarifies New RF Microphone Rules
The Federal Communications Commission has revised and clarified its rules to promote more effective spectrum access for wireless microphone operations in the TV bands, the repurposed 600 MHz band and other frequency bands.
Rock Church Rolls with RIVAGE Desks
San Diego’s Rock Church may have been founded in 2000, but it has grown quickly. Today, it has five campuses across San Diego County, spearheaded by its main facility that seats 3,450 worshippers, for an average weekly attendance of 15,000. Recently the worship space got an audio update in the form of two new Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 Digital Audio Consoles for front of house and monitor mix duties.
Filling Fellowship Chapel with Sound
Opened in December 2016, Fellowship Alliance Chapel’s new Worship Center seats 1,700 worshippers on the main floor and another 500 in the balcony.
Morton Apostolic Turns To Powersoft
Founded 150 years ago, Morton Apostolic Christian Church in Morton, Illinois recently moved into a modern-day facility, and soon after contracted Ryan M. Winstead of Advanced Audio & Lighting Systems to design and install an audio system. The resulting arrangement includes Powersoft amplifiers supporting Danley and Martin Audio loudspeakers.
Repurposed Cathedral Gains Meyer Systems
When is a house-of-worship install not a house-of-worship install? When the HOW in question is a deconsecrated 14th century gothic cathedral in Leiden, the Netherlands. Repurposed as a community events center, Pieterskerk Leiden still has all the majesty of a massive cathedral, but it also retained all the inherent acoustical challenges, too.
VUE Heads for Great Hills
Great Hills Baptist Church recently updated its audio system with a new VUE Audiotechnik al-Class line array for its 3,500-seat auditorium.
Nexo Geo M10 Demos To Tour U.S.
Yamaha is taking the Nexo Geo M10 line array on the road, demoing the new system at locations around the United States next month.
Faith Sanctuary Brings On Bose
In “Eleanor Rigby,” Paul McCartney sang of “Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear.” Now a real-life Father McKenzie has had a Bose RoomMatch loudspeaker system installed at Toronto-based Faith Sanctuary, ensuring everyone at a service can hear him.
Sounding the Word at Cherry Hills CC
By Karen Mitchell. The Cherry Hills Community Church (CHCC) in Highlands Ranch, CO, near Denver, has been called the fastest growing church in the U.S., but until recently its audio system simply couldn’t keep up with its spectacular pace.
HOW-To: Acoustic Treatment for HOWs
The audio involved in most church services today is a blend of spoken word, singing voices and music with instrumentation that ranges from minimalistic— e.g., one piano, organ or guitar—to complex—perhaps something rivaling a Broadway production.
HOWs Bring Cabling Up to Date
By Steve Harvey. Copper is dead, long live glass. That’s an exaggeration, of course; copper cable as a transport for both analog and digital signals is still alive and kicking. But as more houses of worship adopt digital workflows for live sound, recording and broadcast production, fiber optic cables are becoming an attractive alternative.
HOW-To: Careful Choir Miking for HOWs
By Alvin Fernald. It may seem like preaching to the choir to suggest this in HOW Sound, but miking a group of singers should be approached with care and consideration. It’s not a case where you can throw up a few mics and be done with it (well, you can, but it’s not going to help the situation). There’s a string of parameters to be taken into consideration, from the kinds of mics and patterns employed to their placement around the choir. With that in mind, we turned to Todd Foster of Audix Microphones, who shared some choir miking tips.
A PA for Multiple HOWs in One Room
The First Baptist Church of Los Angeles is 90 years old, and reflects the time when it was built, sporting 60-foot ceilings within the echoing space. Today, it’s used by multiple congregations and also is often rented for TV and movie shoots as well. Recently, CCI Solutions updated the facility’s audio system to better accommodate all those entities, using Kiva and X Series enclosures from L-Acoustics.
Church Nets Roland Consoles
Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina recently purcahsed a trio of Roland M-5000 OHRCA live mixing consoles, for its 3,000-seat auditorium.
Lightning Strike Leads to New Church PA
Here’s a good rule of thumb: If lightning zaps your church’s ancient PA, take a hint. That’s what happened with the audio system inside Vineyard Church’s 1,055-seat auditorium in Urbana, IL, and it ultimately led to the facility getting a new Martin Audio MLA Compact system.
Church Starts 90th Year with New Audio
Marking its 90th anniversary this year, First Assembly Community Ministries of Lafayette, Indiana recently hired CCI Solutions to design and install a new audio system in its 1,100-seat sanctuary. The system sports an Allen & Heath dLive S Class Mixing System at its center, tackling FOH, monitor and broadcast mixes.
RF Mics Face Altered Landscape
The Federal Communications Commission’s Incentive Auction came to an end on January 18, 2017 when telecommunications companies met the closing criteria for a clearing target of 84 MHz, of which 70 MHz is public airwaves.