Grace Fellowship upgrades with Allen & Heath
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The church hosts two contemporary worship services each Sunday with praise vocalists, a 30-voice choir and a band with keyboards, drums, acoustic and electric guitar and bass. Services are recorded and live streamed over the church’s website.
dB Integrations of Gainesville, Georgia designed and installed the church’s new systems. dB’s Ronnie Stanford says, “Grace Fellowship had an older analogue mixer and wanted to move to digital for its flexibility and for their streaming broadcast.” The church auditioned several digital mixers but, after a dLive demo from dB Integrations, Rick Freeman, technical advisor to the church and a broadcast engineer for the University of Georgia Athletics Department, said, “Hands down, there was no question about which mixer was the winner.”
Grace Fellowship’s dLive mixes both FOH and monitors. To minimize stage clutter, the church’s vocalists have wireless in-ear monitors and the band uses a mix of wireless and wired ears fed by six Allen & Heath ME-1 Personal Mixers and an ME-U 10-Port Hub. The church uses a seventh ME-1 to mix its streaming broadcast. Freeman explained, “We stream both of our services on Sunday and the dLive provides a clean, adjustable mix but the ME-1 allows us to make minor adjustments easily.”
Freeman concludes, “The new system has made a huge difference in the impact of everything at the church. The dLive’s functionality and ease of operation are very important to us along with the great support we’ve received. And, the sound quality is amazing! Everything sounds very clean and we can hear the pastor’s message clearly.”
(Jim Evans)
