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A Church Organ Works project employing Ashly Audio power amplifiers.

Ashly Audio Amplifiers At The Heart Of The Approach Of Church Organ Works

Colorado-based supplier and service provider of digital and pipe organs as well as digital/pipe hybrid combinations regularly utilize ne, nX models and more in its projects.

Church Organ Works, a Colorado-based supplier and service provider of digital and pipe organs as well as digital/pipe hybrid combinations and more employs a range of power amplifiers from Ashly Audio in its installation projects.

Dan Bashor, CEO of Church Organ Works, notes that the company has been working with Ashly for 15 years, stating that they’re well suited for all of the installation challenges he’s faced. “Ashly Audio is able to provide the flexible technology and high performance for any system we encounter,” he says. “We are able to solve problems immediately after we identify them thanks to the variety of options offered by Ashly.”

Bashor adds that the control offered by Ashly Audio systems allows Church Organ Works to combine both pipe and digital technologies for a hybrid organ where details in every aspect of the sound are required. “Being able to wirelessly control large blocks of multichannel amplifiers from anywhere in the venue is a huge advantage when setting and adjusting system parameters,” he explains. “For amplifiers, we require a complete and flexible DSP suite for matrix, time alignment, gain control, mixing, crossover and all manner of parametric equalization. Fortunately, Ashly is able to provide this.”

For example, Church Organ Works recently completed an installation at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Tarpon Springs, FL, where a high ceiling, wooden pews and other variable surfaces make for a challenging acoustic space. Church Organ Works specified and integrated a complement of Ashly Audio amplifiers to match the size and potential of the church’s hybrid organ to help deliver the desired sonic quality.

Three ne8250 amplifiers joined by an nX4004 and an nX 1.5 support the St. Ignatius hybrid organ. They each have Protea DSP onboard and are Dante networking compatible, and in this case, the hybrid organ outputs Dante for the digital audio network path and uses MIDI Pipe output for the speaking pipes.

“As one of the most unique instrument applications, we are basically asking modern technology to compete “on-par” or in some cases side-by-side with “wind-blown pipes,” Bashor concludes. “Thank you Ashly for helping make the exceptional possible.”

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