Yamaha’s TF3 Digital Mixing Console

In Audio, Product Reviewsby tfwm

hiHere at Celebration Church our Kids rooms are used as multipurpose rooms throughout the week. Sundays they are strictly used for our kids environments. That could include a full worship band all the way down to just a single vocal with a backing track. Mondays are for groups, which normally just use a couple microphones; the rest of the week sees student chapels and worship rehearsals and, of course, more groups!

With these rooms being used so much we knew we needed a console that was easy to use, one our volunteers could feel comfortable and confident when running, with an easy to understand layout. We’ve experimented with a few consoles in the past that just didn’t make any sense for us – we knew right away that they would only confuse new volunteers. However, with Yamaha’s new TF3 digital mixing consoles, we found everything we were looking for in a perfect fi t for our kids’ rooms.

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Analog Way’s SmartMatriX Ultra

In Product Reviewsby tfwm

ae72b2f1-ef4d-421b-bd69-2b7befe01b87-1I started at Christ Church at Grove Farm (CCGF) in Sewickley, PA, as the Creative Services Director about 10 years ago. We are an evangelical non-denominational church with roots in the Anglican tradition. We had just dedicated our new, larger sanctuary that had been added to the existing building, which had effectively doubled our size. We currently run three services on Sunday, with two of the three services having a more modern, rock-driven, multimedia heavy feel.

We have a typical layout of three screens with a confidence monitor in the back, and the ability to send three independent sources to the screens (main screen; side screens; confidence monitor). We would run announcements on side screens, and church logos/images on middle screens. Worship songs would sometimes run on all three screens, or sometimes just on the side screens with some type of image/presentation on the middle. This works well with my own philosophy of doing live productions, as having three screens allowed us to open the stage and add great visuals. We were using Analog Way’s CentriX, but realized it was time to upgrade when, after ten years, the TripliX switcher controlling our three CentriX boxers, started freezing on us during service. Despite Analog Way’s excellent tech support, it was time to look for something new. We wanted to keep at least three outputs, and have the ability to run the image across all three screens (almost like edge-blending it) but also have the ability to run individual images as needed.

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Woodstock City Church Uses Waves SoundGrid® Technology, Waves Tracks Live, and Waves Plugins

In Web Articlesby tfwm

BrandonThompsonBrandon Thompson, Production Director at Woodstock, Georgia-based Woodstock City Church (formerly Watermarke Church), a campus of North Point Ministries, has chosen to use Waves SoundGrid® Technology, Waves Tracks Live, and Waves Plugins.

Thompson notes, “We are currently running the Waves MultiRack on our DiGiCo SD9 with the Waves Live bundle, Waves Studio Classics Collection, Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Series, Analog Legends, Waves CLA Classic Compressors, Waves C6 Multiband Compressor , Waves EMI TG12345 Channel Strip, Waves dbx160® Compressor/Limiter, and Waves H-Reverb — all running on a SoundGrid Server One . Additionally, we are running Waves Tracks Live as our preferred recording and playback solution. The DiGiGrid MGB  has been super-useful to use with virtual soundcheck duties for our DiGiCo SD9. Utilizing the MGB for 64 channels of MADI audio, we copy all incoming stage rack audio to the MGB.

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Placentia Presbyterian Church Projects the Right Image with Eiki

In Web Articlesby tfwm

Situated in northern Orange County, Placentia Presbyterian Church has a rich history that dates back over 100 years. Services at the church offer a combination of the traditional and contemporary and feature a broad range of musical styles depending on the occasion and time of year. In its ongoing effort to further engage all members of the congregation and, in the process, make services even more relevant, church management recently elected to incorporate video projection technology. This led to the deployment of two LC-WXL200AL LCD projectors from Rancho Santa Margarita, CA-based Eiki International, Inc.

Christian Sound Services of Long Beach, CA, a design / build firm that specializes in the installation of audio, video, and lighting systems for the worship market, was contracted by Placentia Presbyterian Church to handle the project. Rod Stoddard, the firm’s owner and principal consultant who was also responsible for system design and oversight of the installation, discussed the job and his reasons for selecting the Eiki projectors.

“The plan was for the new video system to be used mostly for lyrics to the hymns and other music used during services,” Stoddard explained. “Occasionally, however, images or a video clip will also be shown by Dr. Tobin Wilson, the church Pastor. While everyone agreed that incorporating video projectors into services was the right move, some parishioners wanted a minimal impact on the aesthetics of the sanctuary. For this reason, we brought in our artist who painted the screen casings to match the stone wall. This way, when the screens are retracted, they are far less noticeable—enabling the entire video system to maintain a low profile.”

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