One of Nigeria’s fastest growing churches, Daystar Christian Centre in Ikosi, Lagos, has upgraded its audio system to an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system.
The installation was managed by Lagos-based rental and installation company, PF Syztems, who originally installed a 40-channel Allen & Heath ML3000 VCA console at FOH with a 40-channel GL4000 at monitor position when the church opened 3 years ago.
Increased attendance and a change to four consecutive services, coupled with increasingly complex tecnical requirements and multiple stage requirements prompted the 7-000 capacity church to enquire about possible ways to streamline worship services.
“I recommend iLive desks to every FOH and monitor engineer,” said PF Syztems’ engineer/consultant, Olushola Aremu. “The iDR-48/iLive-T112 system is a great digital system to work with; it’s user-friendly, portable and is a particularly good mixer for monitor mixing.”
“The fact that you can control the entire mix from a Notebook via a wireless network makes it so flexible. Setting it up is very fast and easy as Allen & Heath has done a good job in removing the many complications involved in setting up digital desks.”
“Also, using the iLive plug-in cards for audio networking such as MADI, EtherSound and ACE, offers a good alternative to the transformer splitter, when multiple mix racks are employed.”
The system eventually installed at Daystar consists of an iLive-T80 for monitors, an iLive-T112 at FOH, with iDR-48 and iDR-32 MixRacks digitally split via ACE on stage to provide the required 60 channels, while providing indepedent level controls at each location.
The engineers and technicians have enjoyed the increased control provided by the system, including the full dynamic and EQ processing on each channel and 8 channels of onboard FX.
“It’s been an awesome experience so far. It’s great to know that you can access your strips and assign them to do whatever you want to do at anytime, even when mixing away from the surface,” said Daystar’s monitor engineer, Funminiyi Adedeji.
“Now working from my Notebook with iLive Editor, I can actually listen to the live mix from individual monitors during a performance! The system headroom is more than sufficient and the mixer sounds amazing. This purchase is a huge success story!”
