The worship sanctuary of Muldraugh Hill Baptist Church in Lebanon, KY recently recevied a sonic upgrade with the design and installation of a new sound reinforcement system implemented by integration firm JCA Media that utilizes LEA Professional amplifiers.
Previously, the church was hampered by aging audio-visual technology, with a main projector propped up by hymnals — affectionately called “shymnals” — projecting on the wall from a laptop on the front pew. Further, there was a center loudspeaker cluster that didn’t cover the space adequately and a choir monitor flown 25 feet from the choir, so reverberation from the room’s many hard surfaces was a challenge.
“We try to go into every install with the end goal in mind,” says Alex Peake, project manager for Kentucky-based JCA Media and an AV technician at his local church. “We don’t want to lock you into a system that doesn’t allow room for growth, but at the same time, we want to give you a long-lasting system that will do the job well, fit your needs, and grow with you.”
The new sound system utilizes Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers, including an SM100B, two SH Minis, two Cubes and four Nanos all powered by LEA 704 and 354 Network Connect Series amplifiers. An Allen & Heath SQ-5 digital mixer is at the hub of the system, connected to Earthworks choir, pulpit, and piano microphones fed into ACE Backstage stage pockets and six Audio-Technica wireless mics.
“We were able to take a 4-channel LEA 704 and Smart Power Bridge the first channel for the main Danley SM100B loudspeaker. Then we connected a channel per front fill, with a Danley cube on each side,” Peake explains. JCA’s team then used the fourth channel for the choir monitors and the 4-channel LEA 354 powered the four stage monitors.
“I love the Smart Power Bridge function. I can create a left-center-right (LCR) configuration with a subwoofer on a single four-channel amp because I can Smart Power Bridge the sub on a single channel and then do the left, center, and right. That really helps in a lot of our layouts,” he states.
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