Grace Church has always met high standards in regards to A/V equipment. After attending a “MyMix Academy”, Brian Vaughan, pastor of music and worship at Grace Church, assisted in replacing the existing monitoring system with 12 MyMix personal monitor mixers with two IEX16 input expanders.
Grace church is one of the largest churches in the midwest, and the largest church in Minnesota.
MyMix is a network-based personal monitoring system designed to allow musicians to adjust and mix their individual stereo mixes. The system does not need a center or master station. Every unit is connected with CAT5 cabling to a conventional Fast Ethernet switch, which automatically detects the other units with audio signals on the network. All input signals are named, creating simple mixing by selecting the name of the instrument or microphone and adjusting it accordingly. Each MyMix has two local mic/line inputs that become available for all other MyMix devices on the network. Additional inputs, like direct outs or sub mixes from a mixing console, can be brought into the network with the IEX16 16-channel input expander, either as analog, line-level signals or digitally in ADAT format (24-bit).
Another feature of MyMix is the capability to record and playback in multi-track via SDHC card. MyMix captures the selected signals as an individual wav file (24-bit, 48kHz), that can be imported into every DAW for further use.
Troy Hillstrom, technical director at Grace Church, when speaking of MyMix says, “The settings, including the channel configuration, are automatically saved in one of up to 20 profiles, so set-up and sound check with different musicians is much faster.”
