The history of Mosaic Church goes back to the 1940s, when the then-called Bethel Baptist Church met for the first time with 35 members in a rented storefront. In the ensuing decades, the church broke records for missionaries and founded numerous churches throughout southern California and the world. Today, Mosaic maintains that drive with a (very) contemporary worship style that’s big on energy and spirit. The church moved into a new 750-seat sanctuary in 2012 with the sound reinforcement system that had been designed for its previous space. It didn’t fit very well, but now Mosaic is back to rocking concert-style services with a full-blooded Danley Sound Labs sound reinforcement system, with point-source clarity, low distortion, stellar pattern control, and abundant SPL.

“We needed a sound system that was expressly designed for our new worship space,” said Matthew Grabe, an LA-based, FOH engineer, monitor engineer, and system engineer who volunteers his expertise for development direction. “The room is fan-shaped: 150 feet wide but only 62 feet deep. It was designed in 1959 to naturally amplify vocals. All the walls are concave with inward slopes, which works against the mix. We spoke with a few contractors who spec’d compact line arrays, but I wasn’t convinced they were appropriate for the room. The short line length wouldn’t provide us low-frequency directivity and would only add unnecessary combing. My search for a high-sensitivity, sharp-patterned, balanced-sounding point-source solution led me to Danley.”

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