Pleasant Grove Grows With Allen & Heath

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Founded in 1835, Pleasant Grove Baptist Church has come a long way from its founding in an Owensboro, Kentucky log cabin. Just as the church has weathered over 185 years of growing pains and trials and tribulations, the congregation pivoted to social media and streaming services to stay connected in a socially-distanced world. As the church family begins to return to in-person services (at a 33% limited seating capacity with many health and safety precautions in place), an Allen & Heath SQ-7 console and ME personal monitoring system is there to sonically greet them.

“The audio quality difference is night and day,” says Alex Peake, Integration Specialist at JCA Media. “The church had been using another digital console brand before and immediately noted how much easier it is navigating and configuring the SQ. The musicians also appreciated the sonic difference in their in-ear mixes with the ME-1 over what they had before. It is important to provide a system like ME to get the tech out of the way and let the musicians focus on playing and worshiping again.”

Workflow Optimization For the Entertainment Industry

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from Vectorworks

When it comes to your design, stop doing all the heavy lifting! Join Eric Girard, senior technical director at Cramer, for a case-study-style webinar and learn new ways you can make you software work for you. Follow Girard and his team as they use innovative design software to build the team’s vision with seamlessly integrated rigging, lighting, sound, projection, staging, and LEDs.

July 29th, 2020 2pm EDT – Register here

Power Thinking & Peak Performance: What Athletes, Musical Prodigies & CEOs Have in Common

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What secrets do high performers know that you don’t? Stop wondering and come learn what it takes to be a peak performer and how to power through difficult situations in order to thrive.

Join the C-Suite Network Digital Discussion TOMORROW and hear from two first-class experts on peak performance discussing how the world’s top performers face and conquer fear and adversity, how to avoid burnout, and keeping your teams aligned when emotions are running high.

July 8th, 2020 2pm EDT – Register here

Flip the Switch: Virtual Events 101

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While we’ve all had to come to terms with the recent cancellations and postponements of in-person events, the current climate has opened up a wealth of digital alternatives. More than ever before, today’s show stopping events are relevant and engaging digital experiences, planned and executed to perfection.

Have you been tasked with launching a virtual event, but don’t know where to start? Join BrightTALK for Flip the Switch: Virtual events 101 and let the team guide you step-by-step through creating and launching your virtual event. Their hands-on and tactical approach will cover everything from an initial risk assessment and planning to day-of execution, data and analytics, post-event activation, and more.

New Flagship 300W LED Moving Head Spot Added To ADJ Focus Series

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The Focus Spot 6Z harnesses the power of the latest LED technology, featuring a potent 300W cool white LED engine that offers a 50,000-hour operational life. This is paired with a precision-engineered, high-quality optical system to deliver extremely punchy output, allowing for sharp aerial effects and crisp GOBO projections. Offering 50% more LED power than the 200W Focus Spot 4Z and 5Z models, the 6Z has an output of 10,500+ lumens, which represents a significant step up for the Focus Series.

In addition to enormous brightness, the Focus Spot 6Z is also the most feature-packed model in the range. It offers a diverse collection of beam-shaping tools designed to give lighting designers a huge amount of creative potential. This versatility makes it ideal for rental and event production as well as for installation in venues such as large churches and multipurpose venues where the lighting requirements can change from week-to-week or month-to-month.

Legrand | AV Announces New Family of 24/7 Control Room Consoles from LundHalsey

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Middle Atlantic Products, a brand of Legrand | AV, today announced the new LundHalsey Visionline 24/7 control room consoles. Visionline is the latest console family directly available from Legrand | AV and manufactured by solutions partner LundHalsey, the U.K.-based market leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of control room furniture solutions. Visionline features the same stylish, ergonomic design and durability introduced in LundHalsey’s premier Kontrol family, but in a smaller footprint and in straight, concave, and convex options to fit a control room of any size.

“No two control rooms are exactly alike in size, function, or setup,” said Paul Dolynchuk, director, product management at Legrand | AV. “The new compact, modular Visionline console provides greater design flexibility for organizations who need customized multi-console configuration options in width, stand-alone, back to back, concave, or convex arrangements. We’re excited to offer this new console directly from Legrand | AV.”

Artiste Picasso from Elation Professional

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by: Bobby Taylor

Olive Baptist Church has been serving the Pensacola, FL area for 126 years, growing from an original group of 12 people to a thriving worship community with an average attendance of over 3,300. With a goal of leading people to encounter the greatness and presence of the Creator, the worship experience at Olive Baptist is designed to leave people wanting more and moving them into a deeper relationship with God.

Every aspect of the technology used at Olive Baptist plays an important role in building the overall experience, and a recent LED lighting rig upgrade was meticulously planned to augment the majesty of the message. While the entire lighting rig was designed to augment every aspect of worship, the addition of four Artiste Picasso’s from Elation Lighting has been a revelation for our church.

Lectrosonics IFBR1B Receiver Pack and Charging System

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Long a standard of the industry for IFB (Interruptable Foldback) systems for broadcast studios, live events, film sets and anywhere a foldback unit is needed, the Lectrosonics IFB T4 base station and R1a receiver are nearing the 20-year mark – almost unheard of for professional electronics in today’s world. Introduced in 2001, the R1a receiver pack set new standards for size, ruggedness, utility, and value. However, especially in today’s fast-paced production environment, the need has been rising for a new receiver pack with a new form factor. The biggest change, other than the small size, is the additional of rechargeable batteries and a modular dock charging system….

Newhope Church in Durham, North Carolina Streams Its Live Services Using Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer

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Dave Bookhout, Director of Creative Arts & Worship of Newhope Church in Durham, North Carolina, uses the Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer and Waves plugins to stream the church’s services. Streaming has grown increasingly important during the current health crisis, Bookhout says: “We’ve been broadcasting our services from our six campuses (Durham, Garner, Hillsborough, Wake Forest, Sanford, Kenya, and iCampus) for a while now; but since COVID, it’s become the most important thing we do on a weekly basis. Sometimes we broadcast live using the eMotion LV1, and at other times we pre-record and then mix and master the broadcast using Logic, with all the same Waves plugins that we use on the LV1. Week in and week out, we use the Waves eMotion LV1 live mixer in our broadcast suite.”

“We are running four Dell TouchScreen monitors in our setup,” Bookhout says about the church’s system; “Our DiGiGrid MGO optical MADI interface transports 128 channels between two MADI cards in our Midas Neutron and the Waves SoundGrid® network. We have a Waves SoundGrid Extreme Server to handle the plugin processing — we have almost every Waves plugin in our arsenal, and we are using many of them at any given time, so a powerful server is crucial. We also have a DiGiGrid IOC audio interface in our broadcast suite functioning as the LV1’s local I/O to transport audio to our studio monitors. We run 48 channels of the Waves SuperRack at front-of-house, using a Midas Pro X console, all I/Os being shared with the broadcast suite. So, we have 128 channels going on/off the Waves SoundGrid network, and the broadcast suite uses 72 channels while FOH has access to 48. We also utilize the SoundGrid Driver with a DAW for virtual sound check at both FOH and for broadcast, to get everything dialed in between our rehearsals and Sunday morning. That’s invaluable for us.”

Antennas and RF System Design

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from Shure

Join the Shure Pro Market Development team with James Stoffo (Radio Active Designs, Practical Show Tech), Jason Glass (CMAs, The Tonight Show), and Paul Klimson (The Roots, Justin Timberlake) as they talk about the keys to successful RF deployment for large-scale events. They’ll cover everything from the importance of line of sight, when and where to use different types of antennas, multi-zone execution, and much more! Don’t miss this discussion with these industry heavyweights.

July 10th 12 pm CDT – Register here