The new audio system for the recently completed worship facility at Revival Tabernacle in West Milton, PA centers around one of the world’s largest Aviom Pro16 digital snake and audio distribution systems.

The Aviom components allow the church to reconfigure its system quickly, has helped ensure sonic clarity in the new sanctuary and secondary areas, and delivered substantial savings to the church during installation.

As part of a three-year upgrade, the church replaced its original 50-year-old building with a new 40,000-square-foot, 1,600-person sanctuary to accommodate its expanding congregation. Overcrowding in the old building was apparent throughout the sanctuary and on the platform itself.

The new system utilizes two Aviom AN-16/i-M mic input modules, which are used to run 32 channels from the platform to the 48-channel Soundcraft analog console at front of house.

Two Aviom AN-16/o output modules provide analog outputs from the digital snake to the console.

The system is also pre-wired for the planned addition of a production room that will be used to master CD and DVD audio.

Once this soundproof room is complete, an AN-16/i input module will be added to the front of house. 

This will patch into an AN-16SBR system bridge along with the two existing Aviom output modules and run via Cat-5 to three AN-16/o output modules in the production room, which will feed a separate mixing console.

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“The Aviom modules saved us a lot of time and labor, which saved the church in terms of cost,” says Daymion Smith, sales manager for Sonic Art, the company that designed and installed the system. “Instead of pulling and soldering 40-50 copper lines under the platform and back to the front of house mixer, we just pulled a single Cat-5 cable and we were done. That helped a lot.”

The Pro16 system also allows Revival Tabernacle to reconfigure the platform without reprogramming their digital system. Six floor pockets on the platform run back to an RJ45 patchbay in the equipment room and allow the church to place the Pro16 input modules anywhere on the platform.