An upgrade of the sound reinforcement system at the 1,440-seat West Campus sanctuary of Beulah Alliance Church in Edmonton, AB, Canada includes a Yamaha Commercial Audio CL5 digital console at front of house as well as a CL3 console for broadcast recording.
Alliance Design of Edmonton was responsible for the upgrade, which utilizes the facility’s NEXO GEO S8 loudspeakers. The CL consoles are joined by a RIO 3224-D input/output box and three Rio 1608-D I/O boxes.
“The Yamaha CL consoles were chosen for ease of operation, small footprint, Yamaha legendary sonic clarity, and the built-in Dante networking software which is amazing, nailed our decision,” states Dwayne Plishka, system consultant at Alliance Design. “The consoles have been received with hi-fives from the staff.”
Plishka adds that the church previously owned a Yamaha M7CL so it was a natural progression to move to the CL consoles. The staff is using the consoles’ built-in Nuendo Live and Nuendo 6 software to capture the sermon message, which is then re-deployed along with video to facilitate multi-site delivery, multi-track recording for artist evaluation, and broadcast.
“The entire sound system has far exceeded all performance expectations with constant compliments from guest artists,” Plishka notes. “At any given time during services, musicians with strings, winds, drums, bass, electric guitar, and piano assist the guest artists and worship choir.”
The NEXO GEO S8 layout consists of nine boxes per side left and right with six NEXO PS8s for side fills and eight PS 8s on stage for monitors, driven by both Camco and NEXO 4×4 amplifiers. “The size, remarkable sound image, and audio amplification for the number of line array elements is surprising,” Plishka says. “Even guest artist support techs are surprised at the efficiency of the system.”
Alliance Design also installed platform lighting tha tincludes a combination of VariLite, Martin, Chauvet fixtures, and ETC components. The lighting console is a Martin Maxxyz, and dimming is ETC. Panasonic switching and Panasonic Cameras were also part of the upgrade.