SVC_Houses of Worship: Systems Integration Special Focus_: Preserving Character During Upgrades, Part 2

April 2, 2009 | A Penton Media Publication |

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	Houses of Worship Podcast

Preserving Character During Upgrades, Part 2

In part two of his talk with Dave Whittaker of the Hollywood United Methodist Church, SVC contributing editor Bennett Liles discusses loudspeaker control, patchbay installation, and projection challenges. Whittaker also notes that with some skillful social engineering, quite a few useful items of equipment were donated from sound and video production firms in the Hollywood area. He takes us through the process he used to modify the equipment for its repurposed use at Hollywood UMC. Listen to this podcast>>

The "Astatic Variable Pattern Control Technology" is a series of continuously-variable polar pattern, miniature-gooseneck, boundary, and hanging condenser microphones. The Variable Pattern Control allows the installer or audio technician to set the pick-up pattern exactly as needed while the microphone is active, without adding any noise into the audio chain. Now available with Remote Variable Pattern Control.

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Barix AG, a pioneer in IP-based audio, intercom, monitoring and control, announces that its Annuncicom 1000 Audio over IP devices are being used to receive and play out EtherSound audio during worship services and live performances at the Stadtmission church in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The Annuncicom 1000 devices have been configured by Sphinx Connect, the exclusive Barix distributor in Switzerland; and installed by systems integrator R+R SonicDesign. They were selected for their reliability, simplicity of use, audio quality and price-to-performance ratio. more>>

German Church Celebrates 100th Birthday With Omniline

Christ's Church, in the German town of Velbert, North Rhine Westphalia, recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone.
To celebrate this historic occasion, the church decided to invest in a thoroughly modern sound system—based on the first Martin Audio OmniLine system to be installed in a German church, powered exclusively by Crest Audio amplification with processing via an Architectural Acoustics Digitool MX programmable digital processor. more>>

This webcast will explore the way IT technologies and techniques are changing how video production is done in the houses of worship and academic markets.

	Product News

BTX Releases New Mini High-res Coaxial Contacts for ProBlox All-In-One Multiconnector System
BTX Technologies today released the new CV-PBVCM2 (male) and CV-PBVCF2 (female) coaxial contacts for the ProBlox all-in-one multi-connector system. These custom coaxial contacts allow integrators to use a number of widely used 5-conductor mini high-resolution RGB cables with the ProBlox system. more>>

Sony Unveils New High-brightness 3LCD Projector for Fixed Network Installation Applications

Sony is expanding its line of high-brightness 3LCD business projectors for fixed network installations with the addition of the VPL-FW41 model.
The new projector has a WXGA resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, produces 4,500 lumens light output of full white image as well as 4,500 lumens color light output* and is designed for presentation use in education, government, corporate, house of worship, and hospitality applications. more>>