KLANG brings joy to Broadmoor Baptist Church
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Music has always been an integral part of the church’s worship experience, and that has expanded with the church itself. Today, there are between four and eight vocalists and as many as ten musicians onstage for weekly Sunday services.
With that many musical participants, the stage at Broadmoor Baptist Church can be a busy place. That’s what led media and communications Pastor Michael Bowen and his staff to look into a more sophisticated and personalizable in-ear monitoring system. The choice, which he said was clear early on, was a pair of KLANG:vokal immersive in-ear monitor mix processors, applied one each to the band and the singers as groups, matched with a dozen individual KLANG:kontroller personal monitor controllers onstage. These were purchased and installed in September through Andrew Hicks at Stage Centre Lighting of nearby Pearl.
“We’ve been using in-ear monitoring since 2009 when we first opened this worship centre, and it served us well for over a decade, but we realised in recent months that audio technologies and quality have improved in that time,” Pastor Bowen explains. “It was time to move up.”
He notes that the church had already invested in a pair of DiGiCo SD8 mixing consoles, used at front of house and broadcast and sharing an Optocore network, so the easy integration of those with the KLANG systems made perfect sense, with the two KLANG:vokals connected to the FOH console via MADI.
But once they did some onsite testing and experienced the power, flexibility, and audio quality of the KLANG systems, the decision was made. “The 3D aspect is the newest element and it’s been especially great, particularly with people for whom in-ear monitoring is new,” Bowen says. “They can place the instruments and vocalists in their monitors the same way they’re positioned onstage, which makes the adjustment to IEMs easier. And the entire KLANG system is easily managed from the FOH console, where our house engineer can help anyone onstage make adjustments by pulling up parameters on the touchscreen and hearing what they hear. When you put all of those advantages together, it was a no-brainer.”
Mike Haight, Broadmoor Baptist Church’s executive Pastor of creative arts, adds, “The fidelity of the KLANG systems is exceptional, and the ability to pan audio on a 3D spectrum has been a game-changer.”
