RF Venue announced that its products are steadily being selected and deployed in numerous wireless systems projects at houses of worship across the U.S.
“RF Venue has become so vital because churches are wanting more and more wireless microphones, and we are having to get strategic and creative in how to deploy them,” says Andre Grandpre, operations manager at Oklahoma-based integrator Sound in Church. “In every case, we start with RF Venue. There really is no RF situation where I don’t deploy RF Venue gear now. It’s become standard for us.”
For instance, he points to the DISTRO series of RF distribution amplifiers that unify receivers to a single antenna as well as “boost the signal, make it stronger, make it cleaner” along with eliminating wall wart power supplies. He also cites the patented cross-polarized Diversity Fin antenna as providing “better reception, no matter which way your microphone is oriented. That has been a huge help.
“RF Venue has added more useful tools to the website that make my job as an integrator easier and faster,” he continues. “And the sales support has been phenomenal. On top of that, they offer seminars where we were able to educate our entire installation staff on proper RF deployment, and on what the common issues are and how to resolve them.”
Meanwhile, Lexington, KY-based firm HouseRight has grown as a house-of-worship systems provider, now with more than 50 employees across nine states. “Part of selecting RF Venue,” states Zach Lahm, who works in church relations at HouseRight, “is because their solutions work with any brand, any product line” of wireless mic and IEM systems. Another “of the wonderful things about RF Venue is they have scalable solutions that have worked great for us, regardless of the system size and even the system needs.”
Lahm also notes RF Venue’s ability to consistently ship from stock: “It’s nice from a system specification standpoint, that in a climate where the supply chain is challenging and we’re not necessarily 100 percent certain of what will be available, we know their RF management solution will always be available.”
Jessey Foster, owner/lead AVL designer at Florida-based system design and install firm Uniti Designs where houses of worship make up a majority of the company’s business, descrubes RF Venue as “industry disruptors, they’re really forward thinking. They have something for every situation. We use the RF Venue DISTROs for the wireless mics. We use COMBINEs for their IEMS. We use the Diversity Fin and CP Beam Antennas a lot. We’re probably going to be spec’ing RF Venue in-line bandpass filters on any builds over eight microphones. And we’ve used the 4ZONE multi-zone antenna combiners.”
“My clients, especially my house of worship clients,” Foster concludes, “want their areas to be as distraction-free as possible,” and he says the Architectural Series antennas are helping fulfill that goal. “When you put them on a wall or you put them in a ceiling, they just disappear.”
