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Roland and Tannoy breathe new life into Kent church
Andrew Low Jun 22 2009, 1:00pm
Midas Pro Sound provides AV upgrade for Life Church
The Life Church ministry in Folkestone, Kent has upgraded it’s A/V system with a complete RSS by Roland V-Mixing System and Tannoy’s active loudspeakers.
The church is the first commercial installation of RSS’ new M-48 Personal monitor system. Life’s band plays to an 800-person audience every Sunday. Together with the M-400 V-Mixer, S-1608 Digital Snakes, the M-48 will replace its traditional wedge monitoring system and provide the band members with a possible 40 audio input sources mixed in 16 assignable stereo groups with level, pan, solo, and three-band eq on each group in addition to built-in reverb. Click here to read more about the M-48.
Midas ProSound engineers installed Cat5e cable runs from the M-400 at FOH to stage, linking a pair of S-1608 stage boxes and the M-48 control hub; this was enhanced by redundancy lines and Sonar splits to allow recording and broadcast.
“Everything worked right out of the boxes and the band were able to walk straight in and begin rehearsing,” said Paul Nicholson of Midas ProSound. “The M-400 V2 software enables full control of the M-48’s patching but also delivers L,C,R, panning, 8-band parametric or switchable 31-band EQ, an onboard analyser which can monitor any input or output, and all the classic Roland analogue effects including the Space Echo. Wayne Wolstenholme, the Life Church sound engineer, was able to use all the advanced software features to set up the FOH and M-48 mixes really quickly and then store them down as master files and scenes to the M-400 and M-48 memories.
Try doing that with an analogue desk! So a resounding success for the RSS system, and we will be supplying an additional 6 x M48s on the next phase of the project.”
Tannoy’s Powerv12 loudspeakers were mounted at the front half of the worship space ceiling in two rows of four to provide coverage for the congregation. A single Powerv12 was mounted over the FOH mix position (outside the main PA coverage) to provide Wolstenholme with monitoring of the FOH mix, aux sends, M-48 mixes, and channel solo. Additional Powerv12s were installed around the venue as stage monitors, delays and back fill.
Nicholson commented on the quality of the Tannoy speakers. “Since leaving L-Acoustics, I deliberately set out to listen to all of the major brands and get a broader understanding of what’s available out there. Tannoy was the company that really impressed me. The Dual Concentric driver is the most natural voicing I have heard in a pro audio speaker range."
“After the installation of the Tannoy system and the RSS M-400 and M-48 monitoring, we have noticed a dramatic difference in the quality of sound produced," stated Life’s worship pastor, Simon Triffitt. “The new RSS M-48s have given us complete control of our on-stage volume and enabled each musician to achieve his or her own unique and individual monitor mix. These devices have also vastly improved the sound quality within our auditorium and shifted our musicianship to another level.”
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