Design-build integrator Signature Sight and Sound handled the audio, video and lighting for the new facility. "When the T Series was announced," says Mark Gladden, president and chief systems designer for Signature, "it had everything we had hoped for. It's got that Allen & Heath sound quality, with great EQ and mic preamps, plus virtually all the capabilities and ease of use of the full iLive, but at a very comfortable price point. We approached the church and said, 'this is what you wanted,' and they agreed. After that, it was just a matter of timing." In fact, the timing was so good that Northwood Baptist received the very first iLive-T in the U.S., with serial number three engraved on the back panel.
The new worship centre seats 1,000 worshippers. The room is a large square with a theatre-style stage set in the back corner and seating arranged on the diagonal. Live video is projected on three large screens, while the primary sound system is a left-centre-right system featuring three clusters of EAW AX Series speakers.
Stage monitoring is a combination of truss-mounted speakers and floor wedges for the vocalists, with an Aviom in-ear system for the contemporary worship band. The MixRack for the iLive-T112 resides offstage, handling 48 mic inputs from the stage and a dozen wireless systems. Auxiliary inputs for CD, DVD and computer audio are handled at the iLive-T control surface, FOH position. System outputs include three for the main PA clusters, 16 channels for the Aviom hub, four monitor mixes, plus a separate stereo output for video.
(Jim Evans)
