Allstar Show Industries recently completed a design/build installation for Beulah Ministries in Edmonton on both their main and satellite campus.
Dwayne Plishka, project manager, is also the technical director for the ministry.
The 85–year-old church is in its third building, an auditorium that seats 1,400 with an average weekly attendance of over 2,000.
A rental facility serves as its new Whitemud satellite campus serving a congregation of 100 and seating 250.
A NEXO demonstration sold church leadership on a new system the main auditorium.
Plishka recommended a NEXO GEO S8 system with six boxes per side for the main auditorium system.
Said Plishka, “We wanted a sound image that was as true to the source as possible, and met the physical and acoustical properties of the sanctuary.”
“The difficulties were the shape of the room and restriction to load capabilities for overhead deployment. The NEXO GEO S8 provided a passive, lightweight system that could be suspended off a single cable, at one single point instead of redesigning the structural points within the auditoriums existing facade.”
“The install was completed in one week, due in part to the accurate prediction of the modeling and the light weight of the system. It’s amazing what we heard…Church leadership immediately noticed a change in the sound.”
Plishka said the ministry needed a console that would be easy to use while providing professional results. Allstar installed a Yamaha M7CL-48 digital console in the main auditorium, as well as secondary auditoriums in the 98A facility.
“We wanted one operational learning curve for volunteers, and the Yamaha digital audio console family was the perfect fit. The youngest audio tech is 13 years old and can navigate the LS9 with ease.”
The congregation noticed a difference in the sound right away. “Each Sunday, there is a certain elderly woman who would pick up a hearing assist device the church provides, said Plishka.”
“The first Sunday the system was installed, the woman was late to services and didn’t have time to pick up the device. At the end of the service, she stopped by the front of house console and said not only was she late to service but she forgot her hearing aids as well.”
“With a big smile she said, ‘today was the first day I heard the sermon without any assistance.”
