These days FBC punctuates sermons with a full band comprised of rock 'n roll instruments. The church's old sound reinforcement system couldn't keep up! Audio/video integration firm Centerline Audio Visual, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, stepped in to design simple, yet powerful, stereo reinforcement consisting of two Danley SM-100B full-range loudspeakers buttressed from below by a Danley BC-218 subwoofer, with Ashly Audio nXp-Series network multi-mode amplifiers providing power, integrated DSP, and Dante connectivity.
"The architecture of First Baptist's sanctuary is a little different," explained Scott Oliver, Centerline AV president. "It's not a box. The roof is pitched, and the room itself is a trapezoid; it's about 10ft wider at the back than at the front. The Centerline philosophy is always to use as few components as possible because there's generally a trade-off between the number of components and the resulting sound quality. More boxes can help with coverage when necessary, but it almost always comes at the expense of sound quality. For First Baptist, we gave them just about the simplest system you can imagine: a pair of Danley SM-100B loudspeakers and a single Danley BC-218 subwoofer."
The SM-100Bs hang at a steep angle above either side of the stage, and the time-aligned subwoofer hangs from the centre of the ceiling, approximately one-third the way back from the front of the room. Centerline's Greg McDougald managed the project, and Barlow Harlin of Harlin Technical Services, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, handled all the rigging.
(Jim Evans)
