Saddleback Church Chooses UsedLighting.com
As one of the ten largest churches in America, Saddleback Church produces six services every weekend in a Worship Center seating over 3,000. In addition, the megachurch broadcasts live all of their services online around the globe, fulfilling the motto ‘one family, many locations’.
With this large of an audience seeing their message every week, the production team at Saddleback, including Lighting & Scenic Designer Alex Fuller, take great care in ensuring the lighting is perfect for every service. They recently began purchasing a variety of gear from UsedLighting.com to upgrade the lighting inside the facility.
“We had been renting a lot of different types of lights to see what worked best in the worship center,” said Fuller. “Once we narrowed it down to the lights we wanted, we started looking for the best price to purchase them.”
Fuller and his team faced a few challenges from a production standpoint inside their facility, not the least of which were 30 ft. tall, 70 ft. wide windows that span across both sides of Saddleback’s worship center. Needing fixtures that could compete with the bright Southern California sunlight, the team purchased used Martin MAC Vipers and MAC Auras, as well as Chroma-Q Color Force 48 and Color Force 12 LED battens.