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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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08/25/09 03:24 PM,
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The Christian Life Assembly (CLA) Church in Langley, British Columbia is a tech-savvy multi-campus congregation that offers both media streaming and podcast downloads of its services from its website. When the church began an extensive upgrade of its facilities last year, a new sound reinforcement system for its 1,500-seat sanctuary was high on its list of priorities. The new system is headed by three EAW KF730 compact line arrays, SB730 compact line array subwoofers and SB1000z large-format subwoofers supporting program…
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Kent Morris
08/21/09 02:38 PM,
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The mistakes worship teams commit while approaching God do not preclude His presence, but they do erect obstacles to the flow of the Holy Spirit. Here, then, are 10 common errors churches can avoid in the pursuit of God: 1. Turning minor errors into public spectacles. When a vocalist forgets to turn on a wireless microphone or a technician commits a track cueing error, the worst thing a worship leader can do is to proclaim the mistake to the entire…
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Sunday, August 09, 2009
Jeff Lange
08/09/09 01:42 PM,
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The design of a new sound system for the sanctuary of The Pentecostals of the Fox Cities in Menasha, WI, was particularly challenging. This 500-seat auditorium has a 12-foot ceiling, dictating loudspeakers that are very compact in order to not detract from the room’s aesthetics. To meet this requirement, we chose premium two-way loudspeakers, with six of these cabinets flown in their horizontal cabinet position (with mid/high-frequency horns rotated), carefully placed in a distributed, decentralized arrangement. Largely due to compact…
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Friday, August 07, 2009
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08/07/09 12:47 PM,
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Crossword Christian Church in Riverside, California recently upgraded its sound reinforcement capability on a large scale replacing the systems in its sanctuary, courtyard, and children’s wing with an assortment of Electro-Voice equipment from CBC Technical of Murrieta, California. Crossword’s new sanctuary system includes five EV Phoenix PX2152 loudspeakers in a flown left-center-right configuration (including a central cluster of three), with two Phoenix EV PX2181 subwoofers on the ground at stage left and right, as well as Dynacord VL262s compact double-six-inch,…
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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07/29/09 10:15 AM,
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After 17 years of service, it recently came time to overhaul the sound reinforcement system in the sanctuary of New Life Christian Ministries in order for it to keep pace with the church’s ambitious programs. Lee Hartman and Sons of Roanoke, VA, a design/build firm providing A/V solutions, was contracted to handle New Life Christian Ministries’ sound system revitalization, utilizing line arrays and loudspeakers from Greensboro, NC-based WorxAudio Technologies. “The original system was mounted up in the soffit over the…
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Jon Baumgartner
07/09/09 11:54 AM,
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Greetings! This article discusses loudspeaker placement in houses of worship. Note that if your application is live portable/touring sound, weekend band, or other application, please contact me (see below) for a more application-specific discussion of your needs because those applications can be vastly different than the installed systems discussed here. The decision on the location of your sanctuary main and monitor loudspeakers will have a decided impact on the success of your presentation. A single source of sound is best…
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Chuck Wilson
06/30/09 10:33 AM,
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When working with sound at church, we all know just how many things can go wrong. The kicker is usually when they go wrong, which invariably seems to be at the worst possible moment. The church I belong to, like most, doesn’t have a great sound system. We sure would like to have one, but like many, we’ve chosen to “make do” over the years. One day, I asked the senior pastor what his primary goal would be if we…
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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05/26/09 12:28 PM,
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Work was proceeding normally in the design and construction of the new 550-seat sanctuary for the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, when something unexpected occurred. Dan Redman, president of Spinnaker Multimedia Solutions (Malvern, PA), audio-video-lighting (AVL) integrator for the project, explains: “Everything had been moving forward nicely when the builder hit bedrock in the foundation causing a delay in the project. About that time, our rep called to say Allen & Heath had announced the iLive-T at the NAMM show.…
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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05/19/09 10:22 AM,
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In a significant audio upgrade project at Thornapple Evangelical Covenant Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the first Soundcraft Si3 digital console sold to a house of worship was recently installed to help deliver better quality sound for the 750 who attend services and participate in ministries every week. The church has been established in the Grand Rapids neighborhood since 1979 and continues to uphold the history of The Evangelical Covenant Church. The church decided to upgrade the audio system after…
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
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05/07/09 09:25 AM,
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Worship Facilities Conference & Expo has announced the participation of more than 250 churches at next week’s WFX California, taking place May 13-15, 2009 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Among the churches are congregations implementing the latest technologies and services to grow and enhance their ministries. “WFX is pleased to welcome facilities and tech teams from some of the most innovative churches in California and beyond,” said Nicole Derany, WFX Show Director. “These churches have…
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