Audio-Technica System 10 PRO Wireless Systems Chosen for the New First Southern Baptist Church Building in Pratt, Kansas
As the FCC spectrum auction approaches in April 2016, and this fast-growing church faces the loss of the 600-MHz frequency range, the Audio-Technica System 10 PRO system offers interference-free operation in the 2.4 GHz range with the features needed to keep the church’s message coming across loud and clear
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Handy eventually brought the System 10 PRO to Pratt and installed six channels at the church – four handhelds and two body packs, including two cardioid earset microphones – with remarkable results. “It worked,” he says. “In fact, it worked so well that I didn’t have to break the receivers and the antennas out of the chassis and mount them closer to the stage; they’re actually in a rack underneath the counter by the front-of-house mixer. You can take those mics outside the building and they still work. And just in time, really” – a reference to the fact that more of the UHF range, the 600-MHz band, will become largely unavailable in the wake of the FCC’s spectrum auction later this year. The same thing happened after the agency reallocated the 700-MHz band four years earlier, displacing thousands of wireless microphone users. “And 900 wasn’t an option because that’s what the agriculture guys use out there,” he says. “So this was it, and they sounded great, the pastor was happy, the worship pastor was happy. They’ve had dropouts in all their wireless systems for the last ten years; they’ve never had a system without a glitch. Today, no glitches at all.”
In fact, says Handy, the A-T System 10 PRO is now the only 2.4 GHz wireless system that he’ll ever sell in the future. “Because I know it works,” he says. “And because it’s so easy to set up — the entire transmitter/receiver pairing process is so easy and trouble free, it greatly reduces the install and setup time,” a benefit for both the customer and the integrator. “There’s no way users can easily mess it up, which means I won’t have to go back out and retune,” he explains. “That’s a common problem with the other systems: users can easily push a button too many times and change channels on a transmitter, and then we have to do a service call to push a button. This is the perfect wireless solution.”