As part of an ongoing project to upgrade its technical infrastructure, Northside Christian Church has recently purchased an SSL L300 live console.

Founded in a small basement in 1970, Northside has gone from strength to strength, now serving over 5000 people each weekend. Ted W. Roberts, Administrator at the church, provides oversight of technical infrastructure, drawing on his own extensive, high-end live sound and touring experience. Most recently, Roberts helped specify the new console: “It’s very different when you work with only one or two key department heads and then everybody else is a volunteer,” says Roberts. “They have to be set up for success. If you don’t provide the right tools for the job, the volunteers can’t enjoy it because they sense imminent failure all the time.”From the start of the decision making process it was important that the church, and the volunteers, were on-board with the plan. “For a church, it’s a big step. When you look at a high-end console you have to look at it as an investment – it impacts everything that we do in our primary mission, every week. It has to be reliable, it has to be modular enough to grow into the future with us, and it has to produce the end results that we’re looking for.”

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Founded in 1866, just three years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Mount Zion Baptist Church (Mount Zion) is one of the oldest black churches in Nashville. As the church continues to grow – today, Mount Zion has more than 30 ministries and 30,000 members – it seeks to provide its congregation with a variety of opportunities to celebrate and reaffirm their faith, including broadcast and On Demand video. To ensure members consistently have access to inspirational and educational media content, Mount Zion turned to Small Tree’s TitaniumZ-8 (TZ8), using the robust and highly affordable shared storage system as its video editing team’s server.

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Way back in 1955 American Reformed Church held its first service with just thirty families in the lovely city of Luverne, located in the extreme southwest corner of Minnesota. After decades of steady growth, the now vastly-larger congregation recently completed construction on a new eight hundred-seat state-of-the-art worship center. Twin Cities-based Audio Video Electronics (AVE) signed on to the project mostly after the facility layout was planned and designed. The architect for the project was Architecture Inc, based is Sioux Falls, SD with Derrick Knight, Derrick Knight Acoustics, as acoustician.

“American Reformed Church is definitely big into music,” said Stefan Svärd, owner and president of AVE. “They have a progressive, contemporary worship style, but their old sanctuary had a distributed system that didn’t have a lot of impact. They were looking forward to getting a great sound system with their new worship center, and it really helped that they invited us to the project early in its development.” Citing superior sound quality, pattern control, and amp-channel-saving passive crossovers, AVE specified Danley Sound Labs SH-60 and SH-95 loudspeakers.

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