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Vineyard Church Rocks with iLive-T System
An Allen & Heath iLive-T system has been installed in a new 550-seat sanctuary for the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota.
"When our rep called to say Allen & Heath had launched the iLive-T at the NAMM show, we looked at the specs, looked at the numbers and realised the digital console we'd been waiting for had finally arrived, and we would be able to have it installed by the Easter launch of the new facility!" explains Dan Redman, president of Spinnaker Multimedia Solutions, audio-video-lighting (AVL) integrator for the project.
The Vineyard Church services comprise a contemporary rock set up with two guitars, keyboards, bass and drums, usually with three vocalists. With a LCR house PA system and eight floor wedges for stage monitoring, Redman specified the iDR-32 MixRack and iLive-T112 Control Surface, providing 32 inputs and 16 outputs from the stage rack, plus additional I/O available at the surface.
"The church's technical team took to it right away," notes Redman, who handled the initial configuration of the system. "They're already getting involved in saving scenes and using DCA's to create mute groups and submixes. That's what we love about the iLive design - the learning process is really fast and intuitive."
Asa Harting, Worship Ministries Coordinator for the Vineyard Church, agrees: "With just a couple hours of training, we were able to pick things up pretty fast. We're starting to see how we can use different saved scenes, both within a service and in creating settings for each of our four worship teams. We're really excited to have that ability."
"Choosing the right console is a big decision, but we had developed a lot of trust in Spinnaker from working with Dan Redman," notes Harting. "We'd all heard about the quality of the new Allen & Heath boards, so it wasn't a hard decision, and the board arrived in plenty of time for opening on Good Friday."
Spinnaker set up the system with four outputs going to the main PA system - one each for the left, centre and right speakers, plus the subwoofer. Eight more mono aux sends feed the floor wedges for the band, with one stereo aux send being used for the drummer's monitor mix. Additional outputs include stereo mixes for the overflow audience and recording.
Vineyard sound technician, Scott Johnson, got to experience the transition first-hand. "It was a little intimidating, coming from an analogue system," Johnson relates. "But it has been easy to pick up, and I especially love creating monitor mixes using the main faders. The sound quality is excellent, and the onboard effects are great. The best part of that first weekend was being able to get the iLive-T working well so quickly. It was a great feeling."
3rd June 2009
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