Placentia Presbyterian Church Projects the Right Image with Eiki

In Install Newsby tfwm

Placentia Presbyterian_43SmSituated 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.

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Video Projection Consulting – 5 Trends That Add Sizzle

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by Brad Gallagher

Displays have some huge advantages over projection. Namely, they can get really bright. This can be essential in grabbing people’s attention and providing sufficient contrast when you can’t control the amount of ambient light in a space. On the other hand, if you can control the lighting, projection allows some creative options that just allow for much greater creativity.

What do I mean by more creativity? Well, displays have been getting much more flexible in terms of designing creative displays. Very cost effective hardware is available on the market to mix and match different display sizes, install them at varying spacings and rotations, then spread a single image across all of those displays. We can even get displays that are not in the traditional rectangular shape.

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Hoxton Church Reaches Out to Technology Sector

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ImageGenby Tim Wyatt

A church on the corner of London’s tech hub is starting to build links with the industry. St John’s, Hoxton, is close to Old Street roundabout, often nicknamed Silicon Roundabout because of the proliferation of start-ups and technology firms in the area.

The Vicar, the Revd Graham Hunter, said that he had begun to try to bring Christian technologists together two years ago. “Being in Hoxton, and having Silicon Roundabout and Shoreditch right on the doorstep, I had this sense we needed to engage with that sector,” Mr Hunter said on Wednesday.

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Yamaha CP4 Keyboard

In Audio, Product Reviewsby tfwm

by Pastor Lindsey Seals

yamaha keyboardNOW Church band recently had the opportunity to use Yamaha’s CP4 keyboard both at our church and at the Live Events Pavilion at Infocomm, where we were the featured performers on the Technologies for Worship stage. The culture of worship at NOW Church is very important to us, as it’s the music which tends to be the initial draw to bringing people to our church. Therefore, it’s very important to us that our music sounds good and our band remains on the cutting edge. Our team likes to do things musically that are sometimes difficult to pull off, and in order to get the sound we need we have to have quality instruments. I may see a top 40 song performed on television or take a current hit from secular radio, remix it and our band can pull it off on a Sunday! Take last Easter for example. We took a popular song with a dark and negative message, “Take Me To Church” by Hozier, totally rewrote the lyrics to fi t our theme for Easter and our band nailed it! NOW is a multi-generational, multi-cultural church, and the music we play reflects that – on any given Sunday, we offer a variety of music, from Gospel to rock to hip-hop to traditional hymns – and having the right instrumentation plays a big role in allowing us to accommodate the worship needs of as many different people as possible. The main piano keyboard is one of the foundational pieces for our music. We also incorporate bass guitar, two aux. keyboards, two electric guitars, two acoustics, a drummer, a percussionist and six front liners and the lead singer into the mix to create an atmosphere of worship that can truly impact our congregants. With the Yamaha CP4, there were two things I noticed and appreciated right away: touch sensitivity of the keys, and the weight of the board.

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Kwanglim Church premieres d&b audiotechnik’s 10D and 30D amplifiers

In Web Articlesby tfwm

Kwanglim Church KR 2015 (17)“The cost always has to be one of the decisive factors when one is contemplating a sound system installation,” opens Jung Hawon, one of the elders in the Apgujung Kwanglim Church in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea and Chairman of the Broadcasting Department. “The opportunity to use the brand new specialized installation amplifiers, the 10D and the 30D, from d&b audiotechnik meant that the savings, when compared to other quotations, were more than persuasive.”

That said Hawon was very thorough when determining which system demonstration met with his congregation’s approval. A group from the eighty thousand strong global worshippers were provided with a form of grading sheets so they could rate the three systems vying for the contract. The d&b V-Series system, augmented by some E8 loudspeakers and driven by the newly developed 30D and 10D amplifiers won the day.

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Tech No Babel

In Web Articlesby tfwm

Troubleshooting Techniques: Troubleshooting a Computer

What troubleshooting techniques should you use when troubleshooting computers? Some of them are similar to troubleshooting other hardware, but the software layer in a computer adds complexity.

First, always reboot. Software left running can get glitchy.

Next consider what software may have been added to the mix. New software sometimes breaks things.

The hardware can be to blame, too, though. Power supplies can weaken over time and spinning hard drives do eventually fail.

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WorxAudio Loudspeakers Keep Services Vibrant at Springs First Church

In Web Articlesby tfwm

SpringsFirst_HiAs a Protestant Christian church in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, Springs First Church (http://springsfirst.org/) strives to create an environment where each person attending, from long-time Christ-followers to those investigating Christ, can walk away different than when they entered. To accomplish this, music assumes a prominent role in the church’s services, as it has been found to be a terrific means of engaging the congregation. To ensure the best possible music and speech reproduction, the church recently upgraded their sound reinforcement capabilities with a new system drawn from the catalog of WorxAudio® Technologies (www.worxaudio.com), a division of PreSonus® Audio Electronics (www.presonus.com).

Fort Wayne, IN-based CSD (Custom Sound Designs) Group, Inc., an award winning, nationally recognized design/build firm providing audio, video, lighting, and acoustics services, was contracted to manage the installation of the church’s new sound system. CSD Group President Doug Hood, who oversaw the project from conception through completion, discussed the challenges and his decision to deploy WorxAudio X1i-P line arrays and TL218SS subwoofers.

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St Ann’s Catholic Church Modernizes with Mackie’s DL32R

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untitledFounded in 1917, St. Ann’s Catholic Church has thrived over the years, and as its congregation has grown, the campus has expanded to include a school, rectory, gymnasium, and several other buildings. Their current 500-seat sanctuary underwent a major renovation in the 1990s, and the church recently upgraded their audio system, adding a Mackie DL32R digital mixer with iPad control.

“We came in to replace their speaker system, because they’d been struggling for several years with intelligibility issues,” explains Larry Garris, owner of Corner Music Audio & Video in Nashville. While replacing the outdated system with a Renkus-Heinz CFX-series center cluster, the conversation turned to the church’s aging mixing console. “They were originally pretty set on staying with an analog console,” says Garris. “The priest, who was nearing retirement, is a pretty progressive guy, and while we were in there working on the system, we took an iPad and showed him a bit about the Master Fader app and how it all worked. He got it immediately, and we agreed to bring in a DL32R for them to try out.”

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Guitar Center Professional Sources AVL Gear for Renovation at Bellevue Christian Center in Bellevue, Nebraska

In Web Articlesby tfwm

BellevueChristian_Photo1The Bellevue Christian Center, in Bellevue, Nebraska, had a big project to tackle: the renovation of an auditorium that would be used as a temporary sanctuary so its existing sanctuary could also be renovated. It was a huge project, one that generated a lengthy equipment list for audio, video and lighting, and one that would require every item from that list to arrive exactly on time, to keep to the project timeline and to assure that the congregation would have a suitable sanctuary every Sunday during the renovations. That’s why the AV systems integrator on the project, Whiteley Solutions, turned to Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users. “We knew they’d have what we needed, and they’d have it on site when we needed it,” says Zach Anthony, the Senior Systems Engineer at Whiteley Solutions.

The equipment list was substantial and included lighting systems from Martin, Chauvet, Altman and Elation; audio products from Yamaha, RCF, Sennheiser and AKG®; and video platforms from manufacturers including Vaddio, Blackmagic Design and Da-Lite. The project was scheduled for two phases, the first taking some audio and acoustical products into the church’s auditorium to allow it to be used to hold Sunday services. Once that was done, the work switched to the existing sanctuary, where the vast majority of the equipment purchased through GC Pro would be utilized.

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