Audio quality is key to Real Life's contemporary services, with charismatic pastors and a five piece band flanked by backup singers. The church retained Sach AV of Florida, who recommended a system based on Renkus-Heinz's CF-Series modular point source line array.
"The room is quite long, so we needed something that had punch, but was portable enough to move in and out easily," explains Dale Zink, project manager for Sach AV. "The Renkus-Heinz system accomplishes that with ease. It's really smooth, even when the band goes well above 105 db. It's just lively and creates a great atmosphere."
Flexibility was also a concern, as the church's rapidly growing congregation may eventually outgrow the 585 seat capacity of the room. Anchoring the system are left and right arrays of two CF101-LA cabinets each. Low end is capably handled by two CF15S subwoofers. "The beauty of this design is that it can be added to quickly if they do end up moving to a larger facility," adds Zink. With a largely volunteer staff, simplicity is also critical. "The way it's set up right now, everything is colour-coded, so even their less technical personnel can set the entire thing up in 45 minutes or less."
Thus far, reviews are nothing but positive from the entire Real Life staff. "The first week they used the system, I got a voice mail from Dennis Peck, the sound engineer, and he just said 'Wow' several times at first," relates Zink.
(Jim Evans)
