Prosound News - April 2008 - (Page 66)

[66] Precept Ministries Picks LightViper The new Yamaha LS9 digital desk at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Alamonte Springs, FL. Yamaha Desk Answers Prayers ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL—St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Altamonte Springs, FL recently upgraded its audio system with a plethora of new equipment, including a Yamaha LS9 digital audio console. Other gear installed included a three Raxxess ERT-WT Walnut Elite roll-top racks; two Furman PL PLUS II enhanced power/light modules; a Tascam CD-A700 - CD/cassette player; Custom Link 8-channel XLR cables and Link mic cables. Extensive use of compressors and gates are used to help the volunteer operators keep things under control. The recently remodeled church has very lively acoustics and also some restrictions on where to place speakers. “The all-in-one control that the Yamaha LS9 offers with delay and EQ on the outputs is hugely beneficial in this regard,” said Craig Beyrooti, Atlantic Professional Audio, who installed the system. “Another key feature is that one can recall a scene and get out of any trouble that may arise from service to service and operator to operator.” Atlantic Professional Audio www.atlanticproaudio.com Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems www.yamahaca.com auditorium audio.” ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD—Precept Byrd adds, “We now have Ministries of Chattanooga, TN really clean audio feeds behas acquired FiberPlex’s Lighttween all locations, without Viper audio transport system. any digital glitches or any of The international Bible study aids the previous problems we organization installed the advanced fiber-optic audio system from its main had with long runs of analog signals. We auditorium—which is used as a production have eliminated all grounding hums since studio—to its TV and radio production con- we no longer connect with copper betrol rooms and various audio/video production suites located in a separate building on the 32-acre pastoral campus. The evangelical organization’s daily Bible study TV program reaches 94 million households worldwide. The conduits that link the auditorium to the production building are approximately 800 feet long. A standard Model 1832 “plug n’ play” LightViper fiber optic audio “snake” system with two splits was specified by Precept’s 20-year veteran audio engineer, Tom Byrd. “We use the LightViper to connect all audio between our AV buildings,” Byrd comments. “We typically use six wireless microphones, plus other hardwired stage microphones connected to the Precept Ministries audio engineer, Tom Byrd, backLightViper’s stage box back- stage at the organization’s main auditorium with stage in the auditorium. The a LightViper 1832 stagebox head-end. main output of this stage box feeds up the hill through 900 feet of tween the two buildings; our audio was fiber to the media building’s Master Control routed with conventional snakes through gear room. These audio feeds are then the same conduit runs which caused conrouted to various audio control rooms to stant signal and noise problems. The feed video machines. We use the eight au- LightViper has made a dramatic improvedio returns on the LightViper to route ment in our production work. The new stage announce communications as well as fiber system also enables us to feed many other audio feeds ‘back down the hill’ and more signals as needed between the patch as necessary to the auditorium and main buildings.” classrooms. A split from the LightViper FiberPlex stage box also feeds the FOH console for www.fiberplex.com houses of worship Auralex a Lock for Keynote WESTFIELD, IN—Keynote, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, recently commissioned Auralex Acoustics to treat East Street Studios, its newly constructed, 15,000-squarefoot recording and live performance venue in Westfield, IN. A total of 64 Elite C44 ProPanels were installed throughout the venue in order to cut the reverberation time of the room. “The panels exceeded my expectations,” said Dave Fackler, Keynote’s East Street Studios project manager. “When we had tried to EQ the room without the panels this past spring, it was a mess. The RTA showed peaks and valleys all over the place, it was very difficult to get the room anywhere close to flat. But with Auralex’s C44 panels installed, we reset the EQ to flat and the RTA showed flat! Every place we measured, in front of all five speakers hanging from the ceiling, it was amazingly flat.” Auralex Acoustics www.auralex.com prosoundnews.com April 2008 http://www.atlanticproaudio.com http://www.yamahaca.com http://www.fiberplex.com http://www.rfanalyzer.net http://www.auralex.com http://www.rfanalyzer.net http://prosoundnews.com

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