Each floor pocket also includes connection points for the Aviom Personal Mixers the church uses for monitor mixing.
The Aviom personal mixers play a key role as well in maintaining the sound quality in the sanctuary by keeping volume on the platform under control. In the original building, the praise team used floor wedges as monitors and relied on hand signals to direct the sound tech at the back of the church on adjustments needed to the monitor mixes.
In addition, the main PA system competed with the wedges on stage, leading to excessive volume in the sanctuary combined with diminished intelligibility.
In the new building, most of the praise team use Shure E2 or E3 in-ear monitors or headphones and control their mixes with an Aviom A-16II Personal Mixer. Audio for the monitor feeds originates at the front of house console and is distributed to the personal mixers via Cat-5 with an AN-16/i input module and an A-16D Pro A-Net distributor.
The combination of in-ear monitors, headphones and personal mixers now allows Revival Tabernacle to run its services more smoothly.
“Once [the band members] understood what the Aviom mixing system was for and how it worked, it helped them tremendously,” says Smith. “It’s a worthy investment because almost every church that deals with wedges hates them. Revival Tabernacle’s band members said they never want to go back to that.
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“I’ve been in a church situation all my life and played drums on a platform for many years and I’ve run sound in churches for the last 20 years. It doesn’t make sense that the musicians have to communicate with a guy that’s between 30 and 50 feet away or more to try to get them a personal mix. The Aviom personal mixers are very good solution for any church.”
The Aviom system gives the church more efficiency through the rest of the week as well, as three different worship bands use the same audio equipment. One of the bands’ favorite features of the Aviom personal mixers is that each musician is able to save his or her own mixes. Each mixer can store up to 16 customized mix presets, so the three bands are able to quickly recall their settings each time they play.