Minnesota’s Eagle Brook Church is a thriving, dynamic house of worship which has grown from 300 people to over 11,000 parishioners in its 60-year history.
As well, the church has grown in physical size, expanding from one to four locations, with a fifth slotted for the near future.
Due to this tremendous growth, the technical infrastructure required a retooling. Last year, Eagle Brook’s primary main campus console, which was handling FOH, monitors and video broadcast production, was replaced with three independent DiGiCo SD8 consoles.
Audio Logic Systems’ Jason Kartak was Senior Designer on the project—working in tandem with Eagle Brook’s Director of Technical Arts, Bill Berger.
“As a client, Eagle Brook came to us when they needed to upgrade and get better functionality out of the system for their main campus,” explained Kartak. “This improvement was in conjunction with two other building projects they were doing, and to better improve the video audio which is broadcasted live to their other 2 campuses.
“I had had previous experience working on an SD8—our production department owns one—and I fell in love with mixing on it. The availability to have dynamic EQ and multiband compression will help them define their mixes and take them to another level. Along with the SD8’s impressive sound FX onboard, its sonic quality and feature set for the cost was outstanding.”
“After doing some research on what our options were, we decided to demo the DiGiCo SD8,” Berger recalled. “Having seen the console in action, I decided that the SD8 would take Eagle Brook into the future. The SD8 has a much warmer sound than our previous console, but perhaps the best feature I appreciate is the ability to link all three consoles together.
“Everyone loves it,” Berger added, “and the sound is incredible.”