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Table of Contents Houses of Worship Top Story Veteran Tips for Media Neophytes Installation News Lake Charles Church Chooses Lake Contour Allen & Heath ML Series Consoles Ease Broadcast Mix at First Baptist Concord Product News Toshiba TDP-SW25U Wireless Projector Provides High Performance and Portability Masque Sound to Roll Out PWS Wireless Closed Circuit "Music Box" SurgeX Unveils New Technologies Houses of Worship Top Story Veteran Tips for Media Neophytes Media technologies have been a key to growth for North Coast Church in Vista, Calif., and Technical Production Pastor Dennis Choy says North Coast's experience can yield some valuable lessons for less experienced church leaders who may be considering video and other media tools for the first time.
North Coast regularly conducts worship services at six different sites,
which share a common video feed of the pastor's message even while
pursuing their own separate worship styles in other ways. Moreover, the
church has been a leader in the "video venues" movement, offering a
DVD-based Video Venues Starter Kit through its website and
proselytizing
for the technique among other church leaders. Click here for more... Installation News  Lake
Charles Church Chooses Lake Contour
In order to maintain a high-resolution digital audio signal all the way through to the outputs of the loudspeaker processors, Abundant Life Fellowship in Lake Charles, La., has installed three Lake Contour units as part of a recently completed sound system upgrade. The trio of Lake Contour digital speaker processors is controlling a main system plus two delay rings of Meyer Sound speakers in the 3,000-seat church sanctuary.
"We have a 96kHz mixing board, a Yamaha DM2000 v2," explains associate
church minister Charles Cloutman. Rather than introduce the possibility
of a degradation of the sound by going through multiple D-to-A and
A-to-D converters, he says, "We wanted to keep everything AES/EBU at
96kHz
all the way up to the speaker processor. And we were looking for an
uncolored sound." Click here for more...  Allen
& Heath ML Series Consoles Ease Broadcast Mix at First Baptist
Concord
With the recent installation of an Allen & Heath ML4000 large-format VCA console, twin ML Series mixing desks now handle both front-of-house and broadcast sound at the First Baptist Concord Church in Knoxville, Tenn. The 3,000-seat church additionally utilizes an Allen & Heath MixWizard to create choir submixes.
Mike DeFreece is the local Allen & Heath manufacturer's rep, working
out
of the Millar
Electronics, Inc. Knoxville field office, and also mixes sound at
the church on occasion. "The ML5000 is there for the front-of-house
application. We bought the ML4000 to be used for live-to-two-track
recording and broadcast," he says. "We're essentially mimicking, for
the
most part, the exact same 48 inputs as the front-of-house console with
the new console." Click here for more... ADVERTISEMENT 
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Sound to Roll Out PWS Wireless Closed Circuit "Music Box"
Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound company, is enjoying growing success with Music Box, a unique portable, wireless closed-circuit "radio station" used extensively by many Feld Entertainment touring shows. Music Box provides synchronized high-quality audio to virtually any point in a venue. Masque Sound VP Geoff Shearing reports the company plans to roll the innovative system out nationally. "Our PWS division has achieved remarkable results with this innovative technology. We are confident that it has many potential applications including sporting, corporate, house of worship, and educational events," he says.
Consisting of a compact central transmitter placed near the FOH mixing
console and a number of small satellite briefcase units containing
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powerful system totally eliminates the need for cables and can be set
up
virtually anywhere. Click here for more... SurgeX Unveils New Technologies SurgeX has re-engineered its one-rack-space (1U) surge protectors and power conditioners to feature new Advanced Series Mode surge suppression and proprietary power-conditioning technologies such as Impedance Tolerant EMI/RFI filtering, SurgeX ICE inrush current elimination, and COUVS catastrophic over/under-voltage shutdown.
Advanced Series Mode technology is the latest generation of SurgeX's
proven Series Mode circuitry, which uses an inductor as the first and
primary surge-suppression component to intercept and contain
destructive
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