"The number one thing I was shooting for when designing this set was impact," Nohling explains. "I wanted to have a large quantity of fixtures that had the ability to create the impact we were looking for. That meant we needed a fixture that fit a price point that allowed us to have enough across all of our campuses to make an impact and a powerful beam from each fixture. We looked at a lot of different fixtures and the ACL 360 Bars were a great solution for what we needed."
Eagle Brook's six campuses range from large purpose-built facilities to more traditional church buildings to auditoriums. All of Eagle Brook's campuses are utilizing the ACL 360 Bars as the main element of the design. "Our team strives to create a cohesive design that has a similar brand between all of our campuses, and utilizing the same fixtures is a key part of that," Nohling states. "The design is scaled to fit each room and therefore the fixture count at each campus varies, but the design was created to have the same experience and feel at each campus."
Supplied by Elation dealer Monkey Wrench Productions of Minneapolis, the ACL 360 Bars are used for everything from mid-week student programming to weekend services. "This project has a lot of interesting aspects to it, not least the fact that it uses an EDM style fixture in a House of Worship," said Seth Scott, head chimp at Monkey Wrench Productions. "With Eagle Brook's mutliple locations creating a common design to provide flawless continuity between all campuses is a design feat in and of itself."
The ACL 360 Bar's individual pixel control has given the Eagle Brook design team a number of design options to explore. Nohling explains, "The ability to have independent pixel control has been huge for us in terms of flexibility. We are able to go from utilizing the full fixture to maximize impact to just a single pixel in our slower songs, which provides a completely different look and feel. These fixtures have held up great. They have been in use now for months and across 156 fixtures I believe we have had only one issue."
Nohling concludes by acknowledging the team effort involved in creating such spectacular designs across multiple sites. "We have an incredible team that works together to pull off what we do," he says. "We have some of the best lighting designers in the country in Tom Clark, Travis Leatherman, and Jason Goglio, who also make up our stage design team."
(Jim Evans)
