Middlebrook Pike United Methodist Church in Knoxville, TN has roots that can be traced back to the early 1900s. Over the years, attendance has steadily grown and it soon became time to upgrade the sound system in the church.
Justin Haynes, the contemporary worship director at the church, contacted M&L Sound of Knoxville, TN for the new upgrades which included new line arrays from ISP Technologies.
M&L Sound is a full service Audio and Video company that provides concert touring, rental equipment, and engineered installation services. M&L Sound knows that the most important thing about any audio system, especially at a church, is the midrange, where the sound from a voice resides.
For the upgrades at Middlebrook, M&L selected ISP Technologies’ High Definition Line (HDL), 2208 which features two 8-inch woofers and one 1.4-inch neo compression driver, all powered by an internal amplifier with 850 watts of RMS power.
Middlebrook Pike United Methodist Church had one more challenge for ISP to accomplish before they pulled the trigger on the HDL 2208’s, they wanted the cabinets to be white to blend into the church’s decor. That wasn’t an issue since all of ISP’s speaker cabinets are built to order and are available in several custom color choices.
Haynes says, “We spent countless hours searching for the right speaker system for our contemporary worship space. We upgraded the acoustics of the room and M&L Sound installed a sweet Digico console for us, so we needed a speaker system that would not only complement these upgrades, but also handle our wide variety of music. We were about to pull the trigger on a different line array system (one that I was not completely happy with) so I called my trusted friend Scott Pederson with Waves just to run it by him. He told me to stop and call his friend Buck with ISP and check out their stuff. Within a few weeks Buck came down to see our space, meet with the guys at M&L, and he brought down a demo rig for us. We were all blown away and I’m so glad that we went with ISP. Not only are the speakers awesome, but the people at ISP and M&L sound are a joy to work with.”
