The installation was managed by Lagos-based rental and installation company, PF Syztems, who originally installed a 40-channel Allen & Heath ML3000 VCA console at FOH with a 40-channel GL4000 at monitor position when the church was first opened three years ago.
Increased attendance and a switch to four consecutive services, coupled with increased complexity in dealing with multiple stage requirements, prompted the 7-000 capacity church to enquire about possible ways to streamline worship services.
PF Syztems' engineer/consultant, Olushola Aremu, comments, "I recommend iLive desks to every FOH and monitor engineer. The iDR-48/iLive-T112 system is a great digital system to work with; it's user-friendly, portable and is a particularly good mixer for monitor mixing."
The system eventually installed at Daystar consists of an iLive-T80 surface to manage monitors, an iLive-T112 at FOH, with iDR-48 and iDR-32 MixRacks digitally split via ACE on stage to provide the required 60 channels, whilst retaining trim controls at both surfaces.
The engineers and Stage techs are delighted with the amount of control the system provides, especially the full dynamic and EQ processing on each channel, plus 8 channels of onboard FX.
"It's been an awesome experience so far. It's great to know that you can access your strips and assign them to do whatever you want to do at anytime, even when mixing away from the surface," comments Daystar's monitor engineer, Funminiyi Adedeji. "Now working from my Notebook with iLive Editor, I can actually listen to the live mix from individual monitors during a performance. The system headroom is more than sufficient and the mixer sounds amazing."
(Jim Evans)
