Mountain View Community Church in Ramona, California recently selected Sound Image, an Escondido, California-based firm to address numerous acoustical challenges, and install new audio solutions. The church wanted their new audio system to deliver full, dynamic and consistent sound level throughout their 600-seat worship space.
During the renovation process, the back wall was moved creating a 20 x 10 foot overflow area which required its own sound reinforcement system.
Although the room already contained acoustical treatment, Mountain View Community Church's worship space still had numerous acoustical challenges including a rectangle-shaped room with near parallel walls, high ceilings, a glass side wall, and the new overflow space.
Sound Image Engineer, Brandon Rinas, specified three options for the church to choose. Each option addressed the acoustical challenges, including ways to keep the sound energy from the speaker systems from off of the walls. Presented as good, better, and best options, Mountain View caught the vision of what the best system option could provide in facilitating their upbeat and highly dynamic corporate worship experiences.
The new loudspeaker system features three JBL VRX932LA-1 Constant Curvature line array elements and a single VRX918S powered subwoofer per side. The two-way line array elements are powered by Crown XTi6000, I-Tech 8000 and XTi1000 amplifiers.
“With the glass wall and other obstacles, we needed a system that would compliment the high-energy music, while offering a solemn worship setting when necessary,” Rinas says. “The VRX system provided a perfect solution for the sound and budget of the church. The Crown and JBL equipment works very well together and sounds great. It gives us even fill throughout the entire sanctuary.”
Sound system for the new overflow room consists of four JBL AC25 full-range two-way speakers and a Crown CDi 1000 amplifier, providing a consistent 96 dB level across the room. “From front to back, we keep that 96 dB level, with only a .5 dB differential, at most,” Rinas continues.
Rinas' design also moved the mixing/FOH area to the center of the room for an improved listening position, and installed a Yamaha M7CL digital mixing console, which provides better operational control of the audio for the volunteers who operate the system each week. Rinas relates that the basic training session on the new console and system required only two hours, which he said underscores both the intuitiveness of the console and the ability of the volunteers who serve Mountain View.
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