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Audio Powers Calvary Chapel’s Growth

Newport News, VA’s Calvary Chapel redeveloped a shopping center into a church campus, making audio a prime focus of the effort.

Newport News, VA (February 20, 2020)—When Calvary Chapel revitalized a site that was once a shopping center into a church campus, audio was a key consideration. With a 1,400-seat main sanctuary, a 600-capacity fellowship hall and more in development, “the church held to a conviction that high-quality audio was something that should serve every worship space, not just the main sanctuary,” explains Bart Cardea of Providential Integration Concepts, the Chesapeake, Virginia-based firm tasked with developing the church’s audio blueprint. “When it came to the controlling end of that equation, high channel count flexibility was a very real necessity, not just an abstract concept.” Part of making that happen included the installation of numerous Allen & Heath mixing systems.

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Allen & Heath components including a dLive C3500, multiple SQ-5, and ME-1 mixing systems spread out across the entire campus, fulfilling the needs of audio events large and small.

With installation of the Providential Integration Concepts design managed by Matt Stairs of Sunset Sound of Virginia Beach, audio signals route via Dante throughout the plan. The church’s dLive C3500 control surface stands at front of house in the sanctuary, joined by a DM64 MixRack at the stage, which often hosts major faith-based musicians from around the country.

Meanwhile, the first of three SQ-5 mixers on-campus handles the sanctuary monitor mix, while the second and third are respectively deployed in the fellowship hall and youth room. A total of eight ME-1 personal mixers reside on the sanctuary stage, used for both regular services and visiting performers.

“If anything,” says Calvary Chapel technical director Tony Lewis, “Allen & Heath has allowed us to expand at our own pace, growing into a future where we always can accommodate a larger sonic vision. From the speed of our workflow to our ability to configure these systems in a fashion that suits the working style of any of our own staff members and visiting engineers, there isn’t seemingly anything within our audio chain that hasn’t improved.”

Allen & Heath • www.allen-heath.com

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