Christ Wesleyan Church (CWC) in Milton, PA has implemented a DiGiCo Quantum338 console at front of house in its 1,100-seat auditorium, in part to support theatrical plays and musicals it presents each summer and fall season, including The Sound of Music last year and Titanic The Musical and The Diary of Anne Frank the year before that.
“These are not your typical church productions,” explains CWC communication/broadcast creative director Brent Mestach. “But it’s why we needed to up our audio game as the productions became more complex and the number of wireless microphones began to exceed fifty. And that’s why there’s now a DiGiCo Quantum338 console in use here. We needed more I/O, and we needed more power. We got it.”
The Quantum338 was acquired in late 2020, the same year it was introduced, through locally owned Divine Sound and Technologies. Subsequently, CWC also added a DiGiCo 4REA4 processor, purchased through nearby Clair Global. The Quantum338 serves as the church’s FOH console for both theatrical productions and Sunday services, and is on an Optocore network with an SD-Rack used a stage box.
In addition, the 4REA4 processor and a DiGiCo A168 stage expander unit are located in the converted bathroom of an upstairs space formerly used as a cry room that was renovated into a broadcast-audio control room during the pandemic, used to mix the church’s remote Sunday services. It currently interfaces with a DiGiCo DMI-WAVES SoundGrid card over Cat-6 and a Gigabit switch, though Mestach says the plan for the near future is to connect the 4REA4 with the Quantum338 on the Optocore network, allowing all of the mix positions to access all of the inputs from the stage.
“What the Quantum338 and 4REA4 have given us is a tremendous amount of flexibility to route audio throughout the auditorium and to be able to share resources for any application, from broadcast to theatrical shows,” says Mestach. “They’ve been a huge reason we’ve been able to upgrade our audio capabilities.”
