Consultants Duke DeJong and Todd Gathany of CCI Solutions spent two days with the senior leadership and programming teams at Pantano, working with the church to define their vision and walk through their potential new lighting and audio systems, describing how each could help them achieve their goal. For the lighting side of the upgrade, CCI Solutions added a collection of LED stage lighting from Chauvet Professional to the church's system.
"Pantano was already doing some great things when it came to their lighting," said DeJong. "However, there was a desire to add a lot more colour to their lighting rig, and their dimming system definitely needed greater reliability. As we walked through each part of the new systems with the team from Pantano, it became clear that big out-of-the-box ideas were not only acceptable; they were encouraged."
Among those "outside the box" ideas was the decision to replace the church's old dimmable incandescent fixtures with two LED products from Chauvet Professional: the Ovation E-190WW ellipsoidal, and Ovation F-165WW Fresnel; a move that DeJong and Gathany said took some members of the church by surprise.
"While Pantano's leaders assumed that new LED lights would be used to give the church the big colour they wanted, they didn't think they would be replacing their incandescent dimming fixtures too," said DeJong. "They thought adding new dimmers would be sufficient, but we believed and recommended to the church that its best option was to replace its incandescent stage lighting system with a collection of Chauvet Professional LED products: the Ovation E-190WW ellipsoidal and Ovation F-165WW Fresnel."
"We made this recommendation because we believe there are too many advantages to going to LED fixtures to pass up," added Gathany. "This being Tucson, the fact that the fixtures give off far less heat and consume less power than incandescent fixtures is very significant. We were also convinced that the flat even field, brightness and theatrical friendly colour temperatures of the Ovation fixtures would best serve the church."
(Jim Evans)
