The new 700-seat sanctuary at Family of Christ Lutheran Church in Colorado Springs has a main reinforcement system designed to support contemporary-style worship services, with local integration firm Sight and Sound Technologies deploying Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers as key components.
Repeating a strategy that had succeeded in the past, Kris Johnson (Sight and Sound’s COO) partnered with Danley Sound Labs on the system design.
“The room has an interesting shape: the sidewalls are concave in. That made the design a little more challenging,” Johnson notes. “As we’ve done in the past, we partnered with Danley on the design. We gave them the room’s details and they came back with a Danley design that would accomplish all of our goals. I took their proposal and made a few tweaks. They’re really good at setting us up, and then we kick it through the uprights.”
Specifically, the system incorporates three Danley SH-50 loudspeakers flown in an left-center-right (LCR) configuration, with the low end supported by two Danley TH-212 subwoofers recessed into enclosures under the stage. Johnson arranged a new DiGiCo S21 digital mixer to send most musical sources into the left-right stereo field and speech to the center channel (with the option to configure all inputs to be routed to the center or left and right mains). The Dante output from the S21 feeds an Ashly ne4800 Protea processor with an optional Dante card.
“We’ve noticed that Ashly has noticeably better sound quality than other processors anywhere near its price-point,” he says. “That makes a difference.” Analog output from the ne4800 in turn feeds all of the Danley boxes, which are self-powered, and a complement of DAS Audio floor wedges that run in conjunction with the Digital Audio Labs LiveMix system also running on the Dante network
The video system is comprised of a Black Magic ATEM 1 M/E switcher tied to an Apple Mac Pro and an Apple Mac Minis. They feed four Christie Laser DHD800 GS-Series projectors, two of which are stacked to illuminate a large twenty-foot wide center screen and two to either side for smaller fourteen-foot wide side screens. The Mac Pro runs the center screen, and the Mac Minis run the side screens.
Renewed Vision’s ProPresenter church worship software coordinates the visuals and their associated audio, and cameras will add to FCLC’s services in the near future. Lighting is primarily by Chauvet and includes six Intimidator trios, Ovation fixtures for theatrical lighting, and COLORado Batten 72T strip lights for illumination of a beautiful stone wall at the back of the stage. A Martin MPC lighting controller coordinates the lights.
“Danley point source boxes were definitely the way to go in this room,” Johnson concludes. “The models proved true, and there is less than 3 dB variation across all of the seats. It’s very smooth. I attended the first service with the new system and it went beautifully. They’re really pleased.”
