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Lake Hills Church Goes All in on Allen & Heath

A cornucopia of Allen & Heath gear can be found throughout the audio system at Austin, TX’s Lake Hills Church.

An Allen & Heath dLive C3500 Surface with CDM64 MixRack takes pride of place at FOH inside Austin, TX’s Lake Hills Church.
An Allen & Heath dLive C3500 Surface with CDM64 MixRack takes pride of place at FOH inside Austin, TX’s Lake Hills Church.

Austin, TX (May 12, 2020)—Austin’s Lake Hills Church doesn’t hold back when it comes to providing services and events for its congregation. Three services every Sunday, more during the week, special events throughout the year and then there’s the mobile worship team which brings the church’s message to the masses. All of that is heard through Allen & Heath gear, from consoles to mixers to personal mixers for musicians.

An Allen & Heath dLive C3500 Surface with CDM64 MixRack takes pride of place at FOH, streaming broadcast and recording; elsewhere in the church are a half-dozen ME-1 Personal Mixers for monitors. An IP8 Remote Controller adds capabilities for special events and an SQ-7 Digital Mixer travels with the mobile worship team. All of this was acquired through Diamond Entertainment and The Music People.

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Worship leader and systems engineer Roger Blevins noted the church previously had an older digital mixer and a separate in-ear monitoring system: “In our old system, there were multiple platforms for everybody to understand. But, with Allen & Heath, there’s a whole family of products that are tightly integrated, and the dLive can do almost anything and still be very user-friendly. That makes things much easier for our tech staff and volunteers.”

Lake Hills’ engineers use dLive show files and scenes to manage worship services and events. “The more experienced engineers use scenes to adjust compression or EQ or change delay or reverb, and they’ll do this for different songs or even different sections of a song,” said Blevins, who favors classic DEEP compressor emulations including the Peak Limiter 76 and the 16T along with the Dyn8 Dynamic EQ, vocal plate reverb and tap delay. “I’m something of a studio rat and being able to bring this quality of effects and this level of automation to the live world is crazy.”

Band members use the ME-1 personal mixers to adjust their monitors. Vocalists use iPads and the dLive OneMix app to mix their wireless in-ears. The dLive sends a post-fader mix to the church’s streaming broadcast and another mix to a multi-track recording setup. Blevins puts selected DCAs and inputs on the IP8 for special events that may feature as many as 20 people on stage and up to 60 input channels of audio including tracks.

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