Skyline Church’s production team evaluates the Renkus-Heinz IC Live X system — impressed by its ability to keep sound off reflective surfaces and focused on the congregation.
“First impressions on this box were pretty great. Being able to stand up close to it, and it not be painful, and then come to the back of the room and it's just as loud and still also doesn't hurt was very impressive.”
The Renkus-Heinz IC Live X Loudspeakers have received the Church Production Road Tested Certification.
Daniel Bousselot is Systems Manager for Skyline Church in San Diego, California. He’s talking about the Renkus-Heinz IC Live X Loudspeaker System his church tried out as part of a Church Production Road Test User Experience. Standard features include OmniBeam beam steering, which can improve audio quality by automatically generating audio coverage tailored to a venue's unique geometry. For example, it can keep sound from hitting reflective surfaces, or empty areas.
Beam steering delivers comfortable sound up front, loud and clear in the back
“The beam steering really helped with the throw distance in the room because we had people sitting up close to the loudspeakers, and we were able to beam steer the sound over their heads so it was not as loud right in front of them, and it got louder and lower as it went towards the back of the room until it dropped off before it hit the glass windows,” he explains.
The system allows users to pre-program zones of coverage for each box. For Bousselot and his team, that was really important for showing church leadership and staff how they could solve a problem they’re having with hot and cold zones in their sanctuary.
No more hot and cold zones. It creates even, consistent audio for every worshipper
“This was a cool opportunity to show [church leadership] an option that's available for this space that we've always struggled to have good sound quality --- where it's too loud in the front and too quiet in the back,” he enthuses. “Having the IC Live X system and just having our staff be able to listen to it and say, ‘This feels really good,’ and us as the production team and programming it being like, ‘Yeah, this was actually easy to set up.’”
While the system at Skyline Church had three IC Live X Series modular speakers plus an ICLX-118S per side, the IC Live X speakers can function as a stand-alone units or can be configured in arrays of up to 12 units. The small-format arrayable design, with its compact yet high-output capability, offers a versatile solution that can be tailored to meet the demands of a wide variety of live sound applications.
Besides outdoor or portable worship events like those where it was used at Skyline Church, Bousselot adds, “As far as the frequencies you can steer, a system like this would be great for larger churches as well. They're small, and it's a thin line, so you really get away from having those big line arrays hanging from the ceiling. It really just demonstrates the opportunities and power that they've put into these boxes. And the fact that as a mix engineer or a system engineer, you have full coverage control over the box --- it’s just a game changer.”
To see the Renkus-Heinz IC Live X Loudspeaker System in action at Skyline Church and hear the rest of Bousselot’s interview, watch this video.
